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[Ziggythecat]

[oldE]

I hope you have the receipt. That sucker has got a big ol' crack in it. 😊

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Les

[Ziggythecat]

Originally Posted by oldE

I hope you have the receipt. That sucker has got a big ol' crack in it. 😊

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Les

A little Bondo and some light buffing, and it will look just like new

[oldE]

I think the question to ask is: WWMD? (What would Milt do? )

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Les

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[rusnak]

wtf did you guys paint it candy-ass gold then?

Here's how it looked in 1975.

[Ziggythecat]

They just cleaned 200 years of kid finger crud off of it

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Ziggythecat

They just cleaned 200 years of kid finger crud off of it

Tabby will tell ya that they cut the auction value considerably .... oops. That's a big cobell!

I liked it the way I remember it live ... like a lot of stuff these daze.

[Ziggythecat]

According to TABS, this is a fake bell, just chocolate covered in tin foil

The real one is sitting in his vault

Lol

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by oldE

I think the question to ask is: WWMD? (What would Milt do? )

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Les

I'd wonder why the 2 pegs. Does holding the crack open somehow help? Sorry, not a metallurgist of that order.

I believe they repaired it like that and kept using it until it cracked further at a much later date.

[Alan A]

Stops the crack from propagating - it’s the visible part of a steel device inside called a spider.

Edit - my bad. The spider is what it sits on
The rivets are part of this:

The Bell reportedly cracked after being rung for Washington’s birthday in 1844. (What seems to be the first mention of its being cracked appeared that year in the Philadelphia North American.) In an attempt to fix it, the city had the hairline crack drilled out to half an inch and rivets inserted on either end of the new, more visible crack, thinking to make the bell more stable and even occasionally ringable.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-liberty-bell-won-great-war-180962471/

[rattlsnak]

Some kind of weird filter on the first picture. Even the wood looks gold. Its not shiny like that..

I was there last week!! Just took this picture..