Big Brass Plug??

[ALABEAR]

Here is something else I found today that I cannot figure out. It is made out of Brass and is heavy.

 

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[bradyboy]

water or gas line plumbing plug
gas plug, made of brass so it wont spark when hit with a wrench
due to the size, I would say its part of the main pipe line
the square hole i thing will accept a 1/2? socket extension, the other side would accept a crescent wrench
maybe belongs to a water meter setup

 

[rufus3898]

I have found 2 that are similar to yours. They were id'ed as fuze plugs for artillery rounds. They were kept in the round during transfer and replaced with a live fuze when fired.http://www.canadianmetaldetecting.com/viewtopic.php?t=11639&highlight=fuze

Mine had the same 1/2 inch drive on the back of the plug.
it may pay to clean it up and see if there are any ordinance markings on it.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I have found 2 that are similar to yours. They were id'ed as fuze plugs for artillery rounds. They were kept in the round during transfer and replaced with a live fuze when fired.http://www.canadianmetaldetecting.com/viewtopic.php?t=11639&highlight=fuze

Mine had the same 1/2 inch drive on the back of the plug.
it may pay to clean it up and see if there are any ordinance markings on it.

Your site link above doesn't work.


I don't think this one is an artillery fuze...

 

[ALABEAR]

I dug this plug in a spot where I had dug some bullets and a US buckle. So I don't know if it is Civil War or not.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I dug this plug in a spot where I had dug some bullets and a US buckle. So I don't know if it is Civil War or not.

I've never seen a fuze that looked like that...

 

[rufus3898]

it is not a fuze but a plug that goes in the shell where the live fuze goes. it is just used to make the shell inert until it is given a live fuze. Here are the pics of mine.

 

[BuckleBoy]

it is not a fuze but a plug that goes in the shell where the live fuze goes. it is just used to make the shell inert until it is given a live fuze. Here are the pics of mine.

I've never seen one of those before.  Cool! Is is post-CW?


-Buckles

 

[ALABEAR]

it is not a fuze but a plug that goes in the shell where the live fuze goes. it is just used to make the shell inert until it is given a live fuze. Here are the pics of mine.

Are these brass? What size are they?

 

[wildrider]

It doesn't look like any of my fuse plugs. I'll look and see if I can find one of mine and get a pic.

w

 

[rufus3898]

I dug this plug in a spot where I had dug some bullets and a US buckle. So I don't know if it is Civil War or not.

I've never seen a fuze that looked like that...

Mine is for a 15 PDR Gun that looks like this.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_BLC_15_pounder These were post CW. Mostly used in WW1. The R/\L means "Royal Laboratories" in London England.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I dug this plug in a spot where I had dug some bullets and a US buckle. So I don't know if it is Civil War or not.

I've never seen a fuze that looked like that...

Mine is for a 15 PDR Gun that looks like this.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_BLC_15_pounder These were post CW. Mostly used in WW1. The R/\L means "Royal Laboratories" in London England.

That explains why I'd never seen one... 1860's I can ID... either direction of that by a few decades and I'm lost...

 

[wildrider]

I found two of my underplugs and I'll try to get pix tomorrow. I'll also attach a pic of a shell frag where the threads showing and I'll set the underplug and the fuse in the threaded areas.

w

 

[wildrider]

Here are two of my under plugs (notice that one is belevel around the hole and the other one isn't).

These fit under the time fuse and have a hole in the middle for the spark to travel into the matrix/case shot portion of the shell.

Also is a series of pix showing how they fit with the shell.

Thanks for looking.

w

 

[mojjax]

Here's a similar one in a 1952 Walworth Plumbing Supply catalogue :

 

[dg39]

Looks like either can claim...I would guess size is the deciding factor...
DG

 

[bradyboy]

I'm sticking with my story - earlier post
Its a plumbing plug
Brady

 

[CRUSADER]

I guess the spark theory works for both cases.