What on earth is this?

[rizla01]

Hi,

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Hopefully someone here will be able to help solve a mystery.

Does anyone know what this is?

I get the impression that it is some type of fuel tank. It is filled with wadding and there is a ferule on the end(Brass) that unscrews exposing a hole (Outlet, perhaps)

It is chrome with alluminium cap & top out of which extends the bent chrome tube.

any ideas?

 

[Triplex]

Assuming this has to do with trains at all...

Some old live-steam models were fuelled by methylated spirits.

 

[Marxed]

Methylated Spirit is an alcohol mixture (mainly ethanol) that has been rendered undrinkable by adding methanol (wood alcohol) and other poisonous or vomit-inducing compounds.

Uses:

fuel for cooking and toys
cleaning solvent
automotive gasoline additive (absorbs water)
industrial use
drunk by bergies
used in certain medicines as a solvent
can be used in the Emulsion Test for Fats, again as a solvent



yours could most likely be a fuel tank for a lantern or cooking device....

 

[Relic]

A few eons ago there were Coleman lanterns fueled with kerosene oil, to get them lit one had to fill a little cup under the generator with alcohol or some such thing , light it to warm the gen. so the kerosene would burn. I think this gizmo is the instrument for getting inside the chimney to fill said little cup.These lanterns gave an intense light (once you got them lit) a wicked heat. and sounded like a small jet .

 

[Dave Flinn]

All the answers are probably good. I don't really know. My first impression was that it had something to do with live steam, however, so I'll go with Triplex on this one.

 

[sumpter250]

Reminds me of the half hour TV show "What In The World". ( Probably not many of us who remember that show)