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  1. Smokin' Joe
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    This came from the widow of an old-timer and so far, I can't find anyone that knows what it is. Any thoughts???

    The large fitting is for an air line, and across from it is a petcock, and then at the bottom is a threaded male fitting... been scratching my head, so I figured somebody on the HAMB wll know
     

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  2. Hdonlybob
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    Sure don't but anxious to fine out :)
     
  3. 49ratfink
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    is that an air chuck on the top?

    maybe some sort of drip oiler for something like a hit and miss engine or some sort of machinery
     
  4. That was my first thought as well. Home made doo-hickey for a specific job. Very cool.
     
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  5. 49ratfink
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    ha ha we have a winner "Home made doo-hickey for a specific job".

    I would write that on the bottom so you don't forget.
     
  6. cad-lasalle
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    I have something like that I made to attach to the oil sending unit hole to prelube a new engine or one that's been sitting around. When oil comes out around the rockers it's ready to start.
     
  7. Kinda looks like a very early version of the Mellings pre-oiler I got.
     
  8. It is certainly a pre-oiler, but I would not have used an oil can or anything with thin walls. If the air pressure regulator is set too high that would be a bomb.
     
  9. Probably a home-made power brake bleeder..... That doesn't need much pressure.
     
  10. only Cad-Lasalle would have something like that
     
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  11. Budget36
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    I'd agree, can't see that can holding 15+PSI to pre oil an engine, but a few pounds of pressure for brakes?...ya, I could see that.
     
  12. A tester for JB weld to see it would hold while wet with oil.....
    An atomizer for spraying cleaning fluids, the paint would have peeled from brake fluid.
     
  13. pitman
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    Cad-Lasalle has garnered much of the early-days methods,
    and wisdom! ;)
    Got to hear the one about Uncle Jun who took flight into the trees, :eek:
    from a '31 launch-pad.
     
  14. Crankhole
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  15. 03GMCSonoma
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    Looks more like thingamajig.

    Bob
     
  16. butch27
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    It's a "gritzel pivot that attaches to an early Ford " snarvel valve" Probably earlier than 1940. LOL
     
  17. Yep before 3" PVC was available. :D
     
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  18. lodaddyo
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  19. Actually with the petcock I would almost bet it is a water trap of some sort.
     
  20. Jethro
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    First thing I thought too!
    I found one of those under my kids bed when he was in high school
     
  21. Bruce Lancaster
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    Old air-power enema machine. Used to be very common...doctors carried them in the trunks of their cars, hooked up with a hose to the spare tire. Main use was in rural areas with no electricity and Amish patients.
    Pressure was critical...too much, and the results were HIGHLY unfortunate.
     
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