Help please.. Im sure someone will know right away!

[Don Chiasson]

3 holes on the bottom plastic piece ( it turns also ) and I believe it's lead.

Anybody?



For size

 

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[Roger Mn.]

It looks like some kind of filter . Might be like a screen material plugged up with lime .

 

[pat-tekker-cat]

It sort of reminds me of the old bobbin holders for sewing machine bobbins.
The old one I have, has a cover that goes over the top, like a lipstick tube.
Or, maybe an old lipstick tube?
That's just a stab in the dark.

 

[Don Chiasson]

It looks like some kind of filter . Might be like a screen material plugged up with lime .

Don't think so, it's attached to the plastic, think and the plastic thing on it turns. But it is solid and I believe lead... I took a piece of paper and you can actually write with it.. And it writes like a rusty blackish color. I'll post a pic...

 

[Don Chiasson]

So this thing can write. So I think it is lead.. It's solid cant take the plastic off from the bottom.

 

[Uncle Jeff]

I so want to say a whistle, or part of one, the kind like police and air raid sirens use (Only much smaller like a toy). The faster the air flow through it the higher pitch sound that would be created. I think it is the insert and missing the tube/cover. can you place it inside of a straw maybe and blew into the straw (plastic end out)

 

[unclemac]

remnants of a battery?

 

[Don Chiasson]

I so want to say a whistle, or part of one, the kind like police and air raid sirens use (Only much smaller like a toy). The faster the air flow through it the higher pitch sound that would be created. I think it is the insert and missing the tube/cover. can you place it inside of a straw maybe and blew into the straw (plastic end out)

No air can go through the holes. They are blocked by the solid lead or graphite.. It's not magnetic ( tested it ) it was found on the beach if that helps identify?

I don't think part of siren, I'm thinking some kind of old fishing gear of some type. Maybe?

 

[Don Chiasson]

Or some type of bullet? That was the first thing that came to my mind when I found it because I was sure it was lead.

 

[unclemac]

from Wikipedia....

[h=3]Lead-acid, the first rechargeable battery[edit][/h]

19th-century illustration of Planté's original lead-acid cell​

Up to this point, all existing batteries would be permanently drained when all their chemical reactions were spent. In 1859, Gaston Planté invented the lead-acid battery, the first-ever battery that could be recharged by passing a reverse current through it. A lead acid cell consists of a lead anode and a lead dioxide cathode immersed in sulphuric acid. Both electrodes react with the acid to produce lead sulfate, but the reaction at the lead anode releases electrons whilst the reaction at the lead dioxide consumes them, thus producing a current. These chemical reactions can be reversed by passing a reverse current through the battery, thereby recharging it.
Planté's first model consisted of two lead sheets separated by rubber strips and rolled into a spiral.[SUP][9][/SUP] His batteries were first used to power the lights in train carriages while stopped at a station. In 1881, Camille Alphonse Faure invented an improved version that consisted of a lead grid lattice into which a lead oxide paste was pressed, forming a plate. Multiple plates could be stacked for greater performance. This design was easier to mass-produce.
Compared to other batteries, Planté's was rather heavy and bulky for the amount of energy it could hold. However, it could produce remarkably large currents in surges. It also had very low internal resistance, meaning that a single battery could be used to power multiple circuits.[SUP][7][/SUP]
The lead-acid battery is still used today in automobiles and other applications where weight is not a big factor. The basic principle has not changed since 1859, though in the 1970s a variant was developed that used a gel electrolyte instead of a liquid (commonly known as a "gel cell"), allowing the battery to be used in different positions without failure or leakage.
Today cells are classified as "primary" if they produce a current only until their chemical reactants are exhausted, and "secondary" if the chemical reactions can be reversed by recharging the cell. The lead-acid cell was the first "secondary" cell.

 

[Don Chiasson]

Uncle Mac I think might be right... Not sure that it's the same one in the picture provided. So I couldn't resist anymore... Let's see what it looks like when I break off the plastic piece! Ohh damn, I thought I was gonna blow up for a minute there!