✅ SOLVED A holey brass whatzit

[tnt-hunter]

The whatzit is brass with a hole with screw threads in the center and other holes around the edge. It looks like it was the end of some kind of tube, with the majority of the tube missing. I found mine on an old farm that is now a college campus. WVExplorer found one and posted his in response to my Today’s finds post.

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Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.


WVExplorer’s whatzit like mine. (I copied And pasted it from his reply, I hope it shows up for you all.)

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[creskol]

Can't see it .. What did they say?

 

[bradyboy]

oil lamp part

 

[MKW]

Looks like the bottom of an oil filter for a car.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Looks like the bottom of an oil filter for a car.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

The object is sitting on 1/4"-square graph paper... which shows the object's diameter is a bit less than 1&1/4th-inch. Is there a version of oil filter which is that small? Asking so I can learn something new.

 

[cudamark]

oil lamp part

I agree. It looks like there remnants of the side tabs that hold the chimney in place.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

The object is sitting on 1/4"-square graph paper... which shows the object's diameter is a bit less than 1&1/4th-inch. Is there a version of oil filter which is that small? Asking so I can learn something new.

good catch. that would be kinda too small for this style oil filter.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

The object is sitting on 1/4"-square graph paper... which shows the object's diameter is a bit less than 1&1/4th-inch. Is there a version of oil filter which is that small? Asking so I can learn something new.

There are some small filters for briggs and stratton engines, if this is just the center and missing the outer "cup" part it would be about right for a 2 1/4 inch filter

 

[creskol]

There are some small filters for briggs and stratton engines, if this is just the center and missing the outer "cup" part it would be about right for a 2 1/4 inch filter

It may well be a Briggs and Stratton gas filter. They were brass.. I'm not sure oil filters had a brass plate?

 

[NOLA_Ken]

It may well be a Briggs and Stratton gas filter. They were brass.. I'm not sure oil filters had a brass plate?

Maybe it's just the pic, but it doesn't look brass to me... another possibility I thought of is rusted out lawn mower muffler

 

[Tony in SC]

Doesn't look brass to me either. I'd say back end of the little stubby muffler from a small engine?

Maybe it's just the pic, but it doesn't look brass to me... another possibility I thought of is rusted out lawn mower muffler

 

[tnt-hunter]

I think creskol got it right. It looks very much like part of the end of a Briggs and Stratton fuel filter. The farm was in operation until 1960 when the land was sold to the college. It is brass by the way. I did not clean it up very well so you cannot see the green for the dirt. I did not consider it a find worth keeping so I didn’t clean it up. I was just curious as to what it was. I can usually identify 99% of what I dig up so anything I don’t recognize makes me curious.

Thanks to all for the responses. Stay safe and keep swingin.

 

[Crumb]

I’d agree it’s the end to a small oil or fuel filter of some kind,small motor

 

[Mudflap]

Might be the burner part of a smudge pot, sometimes called a Toledo torch.