A strange piece of plumbing!?

[drewdiggs]

 

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[firemanphob]

Is the inside of the long pipe tapered? Reminds me of a siphon to add soap ot other additives to a high pressure stream.

 

[Tony in SC]

The operating end of a gas burner? The open fitting held the burner tube, The rusty stub was the gas valve?

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

It sure would be helpful Drew, if we knew what the dimensions were and the setting you found it in?

Based on it's 'utilitarian' look, I agree with Mike on this... likely for commercial/factory use.

Dave

 

[DCMatt]

The operating end of a gas burner? The open fitting held the burner tube, The rusty stub was the gas valve?

Or a gas lamp...

 

[MadTom]

Irrigation valve. Buried in a box in the ground and turned on and off with a forked key

 

[drewdiggs]

The longer shaft is 4 1/3” and the shorter one is 3”...it was found in the woods. ..the diameter of the larger fitting is 4 centimeters shy of an inch. This is a pic of what the other open end looks like at the end of the longer shaft.

 

[drewdiggs]

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There’s a small hole inside of the larger fitting as you can see here.

 

[drewdiggs]

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I’m guessing this part that looks like an uppercase (I) sat in an empty uppercase (I) as some sort of a stabilizer perhaps..being that it’s solid and most likely without any other function.