[C38] Salon Shelving Options

[Steve Smolinske]

Its freeze the balls off of a brass monkey,   the monkey was a flat
piece of brass with holes cut into it for the cannon balls to be stacked
on,  Balls were stored in pyramid type stacking arrangement and the base
layer was on the "brass monkey",  because of the different thermal
expansion/contraction properties of lead and brass when it got cold
enough the brass would contract and squeeze the lead balls out of the
monkey and the whole stack of cannon balls would collapse.   Brass was
used as it does not interact with lead and they didn't have to worry
about the two metals corroding together.    

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[mailto:listserve-bounces at catalina38.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Harpole
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correct.........but actually a "legend"    The cannon balls were stored
in 
racks.
Patrick
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I thought it was cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey, 
being the monkey is made of brassan and cannon shot are not.
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