🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Gas valve?

[cajundetector]

Dug about 2 hours ago around old homesite. Could it be a gas valve? I’m clueless. Thanks for viewing.

 

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[pepperj]

A cock valve for either gas or diesel.

 

[cajundetector]

A cock valve for either gas or diesel.

Ok so it’s an automotive part. Thank you pepper!

 

[Blackfoot58]

Ok so it’s an automotive part. Thank you pepper!

Yep. Very popular on motorcycles, but used on many engines. Yours appears to have been either welded or brazed, as a repair attempt. Is it steel, stainless or brass?

 

[cajundetector]

Yep. Very popular on motorcycles, but used on many engines. Yours appears to have been either welded or brazed, as a repair attempt. Is it steel, stainless or brass?

I think it’s brass. . As I clean a little I can see brass color and rang up more in the brass range.