dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID "solved"

[Ifoundit69]

dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID "solved"

Found a new site today ,nice stone foundation ,celar hole is huge hasnt been touch . Large and deep rock quarry about 200 feet away . As I was walking around surveying my new spot I saw this laying on the ground the outside is rock no doubt about it and the inside peice in quessing copper not sure but has a hole in the center and a little of some kind of corrosive material coming out of the hole . I was thinking blasting cap or something along those lines maybe one that didnt detonate or something ... Any help with this is greatly appreciatted !!!!!

 

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[stefen]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

Fuse hole maybe?

 

[jeff of pa]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

only caps I'v ever dug look like these



Only Older

 

[worldtalker]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

only caps I'v ever dug look like these




Only Older

I knew a boy in school that picked one up on the sidewalk,ended up minus two fingers! God Bless HH Chris

 

[jeff of pa]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

the ones I Find are so bad
my scoop breaks them open.
the metal is turning the powder green.
& the powder is like Mud.

I tried lighting it with a bic Lighter
in my sink once & nothing

But Don't do as I do
I Forget about Fear

 

[Likely Guy]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

To me it resembles one of those old dry cell batteries, minus the cardboard casing of course.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

To me it resembles one of those old dry cell batteries, minus the cardboard casing of course.

Could be a battery core, my first thought was the CO2 charger from an old Ansul fire extinguisher, but it looks big for that. Here's a pic of a charger I have, and it seems too different to be what you have.

 

[Ifoundit69]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

I dont think its a dry cell battery as it is defenitly stone on the outside without any doubt and it really resembles the old blasting caps jeff from pa posted minus the fuse as there is a small hole in the top with green stuff in the hole .

 

[timekiller]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

Without a doubt it's a graphite/carbon rod from a old battery.I've dug & found quite a few.
Take Care,
Pete,

 

[jeff of pa]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

I dont think its a dry cell battery as it is defenitly stone on the outside without any doubt and it really resembles the old blasting caps jeff from pa posted minus the fuse as there is a small hole in the top with green stuff in the hole .

Yes but blasting caps need to be approxametly Nail
size so they can be pushed into the end of a stick of Dinamite.

a Blasting cap that size wouldn't need
dynamite. and

A stick thick enough for that, would level a whole Mountain LOL

I'd go with Timekiller's answer

 

[timekiller]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

Maybe this will help you see what's going on.
http://electrochem.cwru.edu/encycl/art-b02-batt-nonr.htm


An electrical beginning
One of the first consumer batteries to be appropriately shock and vibration resistant yet inexpensive was called a "six-inch cell," or an "ignition battery," or a "telephone cell" depending on its intended use. It was, and still is, 6 inches (~15 cm) tall and 2.5 inches (~6 cm) in diameter and weighs about two pounds (~one kg). Such a battery can be purchased today but only in a few places. The early types consisted of a zinc can with a porous plaster layer next to the zinc and a one inch (~3 cm) diameter carbon rod for a center "electrode". The space between the carbon rod and the plaster separator was filled with a hard (hammered down), barely moist cathode mixture. This mixture consisted of carbon (coke, graphite), manganese-dioxide ore and a water solution of ammonium-chloride salt and zinc-chloride salt. This meant it was technically a "Leclanche" cell due to the inventor of the chemical system, Georges Leclanche (1866), but it was usually called a "carbon cell" because both the current collecting center carbon rod and part of the cathode mix were made of types of carbon products. The cell was usually closed by filling the top of the zinc can with a hard wax mixture through which the carbon dowel protruded. Thus sealed, the structure was resistant to shock and vibration and storage (shelf) life was very good. When the plaster separator was eventually replaced with a cereal-paste-coated heavy paper, each cell (Figure 2) could provide about twenty watts of direct electrical current (dc) for short periods without electrical noise.
The earliest market was for dc power for experiments and for household door bells. Then Alexander Graham Bell chose these Leclanche "carbon" cells for use in his earliest long-distance demonstrations of the telephone. In addition about this time the spark-ignition gasoline engine started to appear on the national scene. The automobile engine and small farm engines needed a reliable source of electrical power to provide the spark for ignition of the gasoline in the cylinder(s) and in some cars to power the cranking of the engine to start it. Even if the engines were started with a crank, some had no generator to provide continuous power for the ignition to keep them going. The power for the spark was provided by a box of "six-inch" dry cells. (Although lead-acid batteries as used today were known and used, their short lifetime and the need for recharging, where there were few electric power lines, slowed their adoption as the only power source in the automobile.) The automobile and the telephone market consumed millions of these "six-inch" cells until the early nineteen twenties and some telephones in rural homes had them even after WW-II. The small farm engines revolutionized the farm economy and the automobile and the telephone revolutionized society. Critical to the success of these developments was the silent presence of these low cost "dry cells."

 

[Monty]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID

Agree, it's a battery with the case missing. Montry

 

[Likely Guy]

Re: dynamite blasting cap ? Need a ID "solved"

Agree, it's a battery with the case missing. Monty

How's it going Monty? It's been a while!