The Whole Garage Catalogue: A Couple Of CARP Needle Valves

Sunday, June 16, 2013

A Couple Of CARP Needle Valves

They're 1/4" NPT. Here's a view of a valve needle withdrawn.

Talk about 'obscure'. There's a CARP Industries Corp. in Florida that deals in aircraft parts, but they appear to be completely unrelated to this 'CARP' -- they have a different logo altogether. Here's a close-up of the logo on these valves.

I managed to find that 'exact' logo, but with the name 'FUJIKIN' added. FUJIKIN CARP is a Japanese firm that does make stuff like this. They have a brief article on their website about the significance of 'CARP', and what all is symbolized by the rest of the logo. (Be warned -- the corporate bushwah in there is gag-inducing.)

Anyway, I have a couple of exquisite valves here that I'm unlikely to ever have need of, but, you never know. I'll stash them in the box where I keep similar items.

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Introduction

This blog is in honour of my deceased father, Nick Gaspick.

It sprang from what had started out as merely a post on my workshop blog, Rouge River Workshop. Here's my introduction to that post:

"My son has been clearing out my deceased father's garage, so he'll have a place to restore an old car, and he's been finding all manner of stuff. I've begun one post about an old woodworking vise that I mean to restore. This weekend, my son brought me four toolboxes full of items. As a small honour to my father, I'll 'catalogue' them in this post, in no particular order, little-by-little as I go through the boxes."

The nature of the post was for it to grow ever longer, and that can be dangerous. Blogger has some quirks that I've experienced in the past, and I was getting tired of always backing up the entire post so I wouldn't lose it should Blogger vapourize an editing session. I finally decided to make a full-blown blog with an index out of the post. Here it is.

I'll leave the original post as it is, where it is, but I'll bring over all the items in it so far as individual, indexed posts here as well. Needless to say, new material will only appear here.

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A Little About My Father:

My father emigrated to Canada with his family from Croatia at about the age of seven. His family took on a homestead up Sudbury, Ontario way, and made a living there through the great depression.

My father loved school, and yearned to continue his schooling past grade eight, but that was not on. He had to leave school to make a living -- trapping, mining, whatever. Eventually, he and his made their way to Toronto -- the big smoke in Canada.

My father was built like a brick shit-house; he was a sturdy guy, unlike scrawny me. My father was a guy who could clear an acre of Canadian bush before breakfast, have it tilled and planted before lunchtime, with the plants sprouting before dinnertime.

Jesus H. Christ!-- a guy like my father ought to have lived forever!