idrjoe_sandiego Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) I have this mystery (to me) item hanging in my garage and can't figure out what it is. I have a few ideas what it could be used for (Whomper, Billy-club, attitude adjuster) but I am pretty sure it has another purpose. That is where you, the AACA experts, come in. The item you see in the pictures is essentially a 36" long pipe made of 3 individual sections of aluminum tubing or pipe threaded together. The OD is 1 inch. On one end there is a small threaded cap about a 1 ¼” long. The threaded cap has a small hole drilled in it's the end so it is not meant to be water or air tight. The main body or center portion is about 30" long with male threads on one end and female threads on the other. The third section is about 5" long. The 5" section has 4 small holes cross drilled near it's the end. I threaded a zip-tie through two of the holes in order to hang the pipe up. The 5" section is filled with about 30 steel rods maybe 3/16" diameter. One end of the rod bundle is captured inside the 5" section of tubing with two set screws. On the opposite end, the steel rods are left unbound and flap in the breeze. There is a number (T91001393) stamped on one end. I have Googled that number many times with no joy. I also submitted the images for a Google reverse image search. No luck there, either. There are no other markings, trademarks, logos or numbers anywhere. The only thing that even remotely comes to mind is a very short oxygen lance or "burning bar". Most oxygen lances have a bunch of small rods packed inside of a larger rod and are usually about 10 feet long. Lances also have a pipe thread on one end to hook up to your oxygen tank and valve. I suspect this is not a lance. Anybody want to guess? Edited March 28, 2020 by idrjoe_sandiego spelling (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roysboystoys Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 For cleaning inside of pipe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagefinds Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 I've seen shorter and much stouter versions of that to clean and peen nickel welds in big castiron pump housings. Along those lines,if you were rebuilding one of those early Continental engines that did not have a removable head,you had it laying up-side-down on the work bench and the combustion chamber was all carboned up down in there,I suspect you would need a tool something like that to knock the carbon loose so you could dump it out. Just guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipdang Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 It's a whisk for ostrich eggs. Simple enough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagefinds Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 You mean it goes in the kitchen and not the shop? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1940TORPEDO Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 What are the rods made of? Could they be welding rods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lostwrench1 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I think it is a hand held mixer to mix something into the water of farm animals' troughs, perhaps vitamins. After being put away, any liquid on the rods can drip out of the hole in the bottom cap. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozstatman Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Or could it be the "business end" of a handheld concrete vibrator? Used when pouring concrete so the concrete settles properly and fills any voids. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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