first | previous | next | last | home
(41 of 56)

We also find two very distinctive caps that have faint lettering on them that appears to be Cyrillic. We found the exact same thing at a site in the Ship Mountains. You can check out a better photo of the lettering from the Ship Mountain trip here. If you can help us with an identification and/or explanation we'd love to hear from you.

Update: Thanks to two desertologists, Sonoran George and Charlie, we now know that these shallow metal pans are for applying hot patches to tubes. The pan had a rubber patch on the surface shown in the photo and the hollow opposite side was filled with a combustible substance which would be ignited to melt the rubber to the tube. The notches were for attaching the clamping device which held the hot patch pan to the tube during the process.