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On Mar 24, 6:45 am, "R.H." wrote:
934) ... It would be interesting to see other views, to see whether
there
is some provision for adjusting the thickness per slice.

I don't own the microtome but might see it again next weekend, if so I'll
take a few more shots.

Six of the seven have been answered correctly this week, please see the
answer page for more details:

http://pzphotosan161z.blogspot.com/

Rob

I'll get a better translation in a day from some multilingual friends,
but the best I can translate the chinese characters on the bottom of
938a tells me it says something like "wooden tool department". The
first character is a bit hard to tell, since the top of the character
is mugged up; without a radical on top, it actually means 'shell',
which doesn't make sense to me. The middle character is 'cai', which
means wood, and the bottom one is 'bu' which means department.

I don't know of many regions where they train elephants and use
Chinese characters, so the fish picaroon seems more likely to me.

--riverman

Picaroons/pickaroons are used in plywood mills when there is a build-up of
scrap veneer along the green chain. They just whack the thing in to some
veneer, and drag it of to the chipper to be made into presto logs, or hogg
fuel. Don't ask how I know!

Steve R.