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Equipment - Blasting Equipment

  • ICI Blastometer 80 and Exploder Testing Rhineostat: Nissan Blasting Machine with leather case

    Blasting equipment and sign

  • ICI Blastometer 80 and Exploder Testing Rhineostat: Nissan Blasting Machine

    Blasting equipment

  • Component of the blasting equipment used at Falls Creek

    Blasting Equipment

  • Component of Blasting equipment used at Falls Creek

    Blasting equipment

  • ICI Blastometer 80 and Exploder Testing Rhineostat: Nissan Blasting Machine with leather case
  • ICI Blastometer 80 and Exploder Testing Rhineostat: Nissan Blasting Machine
  • Component of the blasting equipment used at Falls Creek
  • Component of Blasting equipment used at Falls Creek

Historical information

In the early 1970s the rope tows at Falls Creek were replaced by T Bars, after which they were replaced by chairlifts.
When the snow thawed, the mountains reverberated from the sounds of blasting as new pylons were constructed for these chairlifts.

Physical description

Blasting equipment from the early 1970s in three parts, including a rectangle metal box with black with white text on top and six connectors, a rectangle yellow 'Blostometer 80' and a rectangle box with red knobs at end and enclosed in a black-brown leather case.

Inscriptions & markings

'EXPLODER TESTING RHEOSTAT'
'Blastometer 80'
'Nissan Blasting Machine - ICI - 30 shot condenser'

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