A CEW Type T4W-1 Thermostat

CEW (Cansfield Electrical Works Ltd., of Toronto, Canada) appears to be no longer with us. I could find nothing about this device or its maker.

This is a thermostat, but not one for a residential heating system. Its range is 80 to 180 degrees Fahrenheit -- for some industrial application, I imagine.

I'll stash it with some miscellaneous electrical gear I have in storage.

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A Kohler Relay P/N A-265322

This is old. Googling the P/N got me nowhere.

The relay is DPDT. The coil is 24 VDC.

While it's not, strictly speaking, an engine part, since it's a Kohler item, I'll put it on my small engine parts shelf.

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A Kohler Generator Engine Governor Part

At least, I think it's a governor part.

On the box's label, there's the 'description'. "Choke". I don't buy that.

This looks to me like part of an engine's speed-governing system (all generator engines are speed governed).

This can join the Kohler rope-start pulley. I guess that shelf with the Clinton engine on it is going to be my small engine parts department,

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A Flailing Paint/Rust Stripper

It's a wicked, scary looking thing -- I can hardly wait to try it out on something.

It can be dismantled.

There's a 3/4" A/F, left-hand-threaded nut that holds it together. (Shank diameter is 1/4".)

The maker, Intl. Hardware, Inc. of Bridgewater, N.J., appears to be no longer with us, which is a shame.

I'll stash this in the drawer where I keep small wire wheels and the like.

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A Kohler Rope-Start Pulley

There was a part number on the box, but it's been obliterated.

It's a very nice pulley. It's the sort of thing that really only has one very specific use -- one is unlikely to ever find some other purpose to adapt it to, but, one never knows. To paraphrase Winnie the Pooh, "You never can tell with rope-start pulleys."

I'll stash this on a shelf where I have an old Clinton engine.

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A Hank Of Galvanized Steel Wire

This is useful stuff. That hank is approximately 125' of wire.

The pictured wire is 0.045" diameter. I find it helpful to tag all my hanks of steel wire with their decimal fractional inch diameter figure, like so.

I can't be bothered with gauge numbers -- I find them quite unhelpful. Machinery's Handbook, Twenty-First Edition, concurs with me on that. Here's what Machinery's Handbook has to say about  it (from p. 463):

I make an exception for electrical wire. In North America, the gauge for electrical wire is always and only American Wire Gauge (AWG). That gauge I'm familiar and conversant with, so I do use it. (Also, I have an excellent AWG table in the back of an Alpha Wire Company catalogue that clearly and fully documents the gauge.) But for other types of wire, and for sheet metal, there are just too many different gauge systems, and one is never explicitly told which system is being referred to when a gauge number is 'specified'. Hence, I agree completely with the above paragraph from Machinery's Handbook.

Anyway, I need to go hammer a nail into a joist, to improve the workshop's wire-hank-hanging-capacity a little.

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A Couple Of Arrow H & H Toggle Switches

These are hefty switches. They're rated at 16A for 125V operation. I'm glad these turned up because I have an immediate use for one of them, and these things are not cheap to buy new.

Arrow H & H (Arrow-Hart & Hegeman Electric Company) appears to no longer be with us. (I discovered the full name of the firm in this law case account.) I have no interest at all in matters of business and commerce, so I won't bother looking any further into what became of Arrow H & H.

Anyway, one of the two switches is spoken for; the extra switch can go in the drawer where I keep toggle switches.

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