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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:25:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryAnyone know how these gas sensors work? |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:28:00 PM EDT
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I have never seen ARFcom stumped this long.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:30:38 PM EDT
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Well the local EOD and Fire Dept (Who dont know what it is and sent me the pics) are gone for the day, hopefully more updates tomorrow. EOD want to just blow it up to be safe, I don't want them to do that. Trying to get it in my hands for further investigation. Inform the EOD guys that they need to make sure nothing is radioactive before dispersing the shit out of it. Lots of old gizmos are hot. |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:30:57 PM EDT
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Its an antique crack pipe!
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:36:18 PM EDT
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It's a gourami. Don't break it, I know a guy who's looking for one.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:36:55 PM EDT
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mercury switches.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:37:54 PM EDT
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I am going to vote lightning rod. The notches are for the weather vane to swivel on.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:38:08 PM EDT
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What does the device with the + key say it is?
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:38:13 PM EDT
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Have you tried unscrewing the rod from the glass bulb?
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:38:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's a gourami. Don't break it, I know a guy who's looking for one.  |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:40:23 PM EDT
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Impact fuse? IE, lands nose down, breaks and mixes?
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:47:44 PM EDT
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Interociter.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:53:43 PM EDT
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Looks like the rings turned into the brass allow it to be inserted into something else and locked in at a particular depth Didnt either the Germans or British have a Spigot-type rifle grenade system during WWII??? Maybe its a smoke version of that |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 7:57:36 PM EDT
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I agree with the other guy about it being the innards of a sea mine prong. Waaaaay out of my lane though. Xray show anything inside the brass cone? I'd be careful about hitting that powder OR the liquid with a Raman. To quote an old movie... "It might just go off for spite!" -Shawn White powder is usually not as dangerous as the darker ones. Additionally, anyone with minimal training knows to only scan a small sample and not the entire amount. |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:04:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Exactly what I wanted to see. It might give a better clue. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Give us a pic of the yellow thing on the end. Exactly what I wanted to see. It might give a better clue. |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:06:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What does the device with the + key say it is? |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:06:30 PM EDT
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EOD want to just blow it up to be safe They always want to blow shit up for any reason |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:06:43 PM EDT
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Half Cell for measuring corrosion?
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:08:59 PM EDT
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They always want to blow shit up for any reason Quote HistoryQuoted:
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EOD want to just blow it up to be safe They always want to blow shit up for any reason And I take it its civilian EOD, not military? |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:09:45 PM EDT
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My base instincts and pattern recognition indicate to me it may be something along these lines. Anyone know how these gas sensors work? Quote HistoryQuoted:
My base instincts and pattern recognition indicate to me it may be something along these lines. Anyone know how these gas sensors work? Electrochemical cells, solid state... |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:09:58 PM EDT
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Maybe a lightning rod? Until we see what the yellow thing is, I'm going with this. It has rainwater collected in one end of the clear part, and corrosion products in the other end of the clear part. But I can't find anything like it in picutres... |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:14:56 PM EDT
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If you find a bunch of other "suspicious" stuff, you could spend the day with EOD blowing shit up. Everyone wins.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:15:31 PM EDT
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w/o reading all the responses, the long brass part looks like the probe that could be put on the end of a dropped bomb. Contact with the ground pushes the liquid and powder together to create an explosion of some kind, which in turn ignites whatevers in the "bomb". The long probe is for a daisy-cutter like effect.
Of course, it may not be necessarily a "bomb" bomb. It could be an igniter for a smoke marker bomb, a "fuse" to break open a case of water, biochemical, or whatever. |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:20:31 PM EDT
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If GD cannot identify it in 3 pages it is either:
-Ultra rare/ one of a kind and extremely valuable -Some sort of ancient tampon (Would still be identified before page 5) -Part of the Roswell Crash (Also would be identified before page 5) |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:20:37 PM EDT
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I'll send the pic off to an active military EOD relative of mine, see what he says...
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:22:25 PM EDT
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I'd agree that it might be a detonator or incendiary ingiter of some kind . The liquid could be sulfuric acid and the powder could be a potassium chlorate/sugar mixture, which would ignite when mixed with the acid.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:23:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: w/o reading all the responses, the long brass part looks like the probe that could be put on the end of a dropped bomb. Contact with the ground pushes the liquid and powder together to create an explosion of some kind, which in turn ignites whatevers in the "bomb". The long probe is for a daisy-cutter like effect. Of course, it may not be necessarily a "bomb" bomb. It could be an igniter for a smoke marker bomb, a "fuse" to break open a case of water, biochemical, or whatever. I think this might be on the right track. Its the guts of an igniter for gravity bomb of some sort? |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:24:52 PM EDT
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Binary firefighting compound? +1 yeah I think it's some kind of old fire extinguishing device also |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:25:19 PM EDT
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its somekind of safe.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:33:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you find a bunch of other "suspicious" stuff, you could spend the day with EOD blowing shit up. Everyone wins. The EOD in this case are Police (large city). They rarely get to blow stuff up so are desperate. I want to collect it and take it home for further investigation. I've sent this picture to many many EOD techs and none can identify it, so chances are it is not bomb related. The chemicals in the glass however are weird, if it is a lightning rod, why would it need those? So far the best suggestion from the EOD world is that it is a walking stick for a midget english man who owned a fish and chip shop, the white powder is salt and the brown liquid is vinegar. I like his idea :-D |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:37:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's what I do anyway. See avatar. The EOD in this case are Police (large city). They rarely get to blow stuff up so are desperate. I want to collect it and take it home for further investigation. I've sent this picture to many many EOD techs and none can identify it, so chances are it is not bomb related. The chemicals in the glass however are weird, if it is a lightning rod, why would it need those? So far the best suggestion from the EOD world is that it is a walking stick for a midget english man who owned a fish and chip shop, the white powder is salt and the brown liquid is vinegar. I like his idea :-D Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If you find a bunch of other "suspicious" stuff, you could spend the day with EOD blowing shit up. Everyone wins. The EOD in this case are Police (large city). They rarely get to blow stuff up so are desperate. I want to collect it and take it home for further investigation. I've sent this picture to many many EOD techs and none can identify it, so chances are it is not bomb related. The chemicals in the glass however are weird, if it is a lightning rod, why would it need those? So far the best suggestion from the EOD world is that it is a walking stick for a midget english man who owned a fish and chip shop, the white powder is salt and the brown liquid is vinegar. I like his idea :-D |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:37:44 PM EDT
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That's an earth worm driver outer. You hook lectricity to the yellow knob and a spark gap is made in the clear part. Push the brass rod into the dirt. This drives the earth worms crazy and they come to the surface where they are easily picked up for fishing.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:42:03 PM EDT
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I'm voting for emergency runway chem light.
Kharn |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:42:20 PM EDT
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Any details about the guy who owned it? His age, any prior military service, employment, so you can get a better idea on what it may be.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:43:30 PM EDT
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I think it is the guts of a very old Brass Stick Barometer from a ship.
Would be inside a unit like this. 
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:45:47 PM EDT
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OST
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:50:25 PM EDT
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A google image search only shows this thread and another on a different board that I assume OP posted the same pictures on, so that's out. My guess is some sort of old school commercial chemical detonator.
See if EOD will set up some rig to smash both glass vials behind cover instead of blowing it up. Also, tag for more guesses. |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:53:47 PM EDT
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That's what I do anyway. See avatar. The EOD in this case are Police (large city). They rarely get to blow stuff up so are desperate. I want to collect it and take it home for further investigation. I've sent this picture to many many EOD techs and none can identify it, so chances are it is not bomb related. The chemicals in the glass however are weird, if it is a lightning rod, why would it need those? So far the best suggestion from the EOD world is that it is a walking stick for a midget english man who owned a fish and chip shop, the white powder is salt and the brown liquid is vinegar. I like his idea :-D Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If you find a bunch of other "suspicious" stuff, you could spend the day with EOD blowing shit up. Everyone wins. The EOD in this case are Police (large city). They rarely get to blow stuff up so are desperate. I want to collect it and take it home for further investigation. I've sent this picture to many many EOD techs and none can identify it, so chances are it is not bomb related. The chemicals in the glass however are weird, if it is a lightning rod, why would it need those? So far the best suggestion from the EOD world is that it is a walking stick for a midget english man who owned a fish and chip shop, the white powder is salt and the brown liquid is vinegar. I like his idea :-D In that case, I could probably come up with some "suspicious" items. Send the desperate dudes, and we can spend the day blowing shit up. 
What industries are around there? Oilfield, shipping, power production, mining? May help for a real answer. |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:57:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
My base instincts and pattern recognition indicate to me it may be something along these lines. Anyone know how these gas sensors work? Quote HistoryQuoted:
My base instincts and pattern recognition indicate to me it may be something along these lines. Anyone know how these gas sensors work? I use one of those daily, that's not what it is. The bulb that says sensor in that pic is just a water trap on the sensor line to keep water from being sucked into the machine. |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 8:59:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A google image search only shows this thread and another on a different board that I assume OP posted the same pictures on, so that's out. My guess is some sort of old school commercial chemical detonator. See if EOD will set up some rig to smash both glass vials behind cover instead of blowing it up. Also, tag for more guesses. |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:01:01 PM EDT
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Don't fucking blow it up. It could be part of history or an invention unknown till now.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:01:38 PM EDT
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what if its some kind of time machine? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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A google image search only shows this thread and another on a different board that I assume OP posted the same pictures on, so that's out. My guess is some sort of old school commercial chemical detonator. See if EOD will set up some rig to smash both glass vials behind cover instead of blowing it up. Also, tag for more guesses. Then OP should already know what it is, and is pulling off an epic safe thread. 
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:05:50 PM EDT
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I'm going to guess some kind of fluid density/specific gravity measuring device.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:10:42 PM EDT
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maybe it's just a pimp-ass walking stick, wth a sample of pennsylvAnia crude in an ampule.....
an oil baron's stick |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:11:20 PM EDT
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the fish? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It's a gourami. Don't break it, I know a guy who's looking for one. No. It's not a fish. I'm pretty sure, but not a hundred percent. |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:16:19 PM EDT
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Half Cell for measuring corrosion? Having worked in the industry in the past that was one of my first guesses as well. I don't miss my ECDA survey days... |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:25:36 PM EDT
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Did the evidence tag "found in Roswell 1947" fall off that lightspeed gear shifter?
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:29:48 PM EDT
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I am going with some sort of antique chemlight.
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:30:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have never seen ARFcom stumped this long.  |
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Posted: 10/21/2014 9:33:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's a gourami. Don't break it, I know a guy who's looking for one.  |
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