What the???

[PhillyMike68]

Only had an hour today so i hit an old mental hospital built in 1909 thats no longer there and found these weird things...I found it together but it's two pieces and the other thing was in the same hole... Any ideas??

 

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[worldtalker]

Considering where you found it.a frontal lobotomy ??

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[bigfoot1]

eeeeeeeeew...electro therapy.....I cant get used to electro shock therapy no matter how many times they do it to me....the copper plumbing thingy....I dunno

 

[PhillyMike68]

Considering where you found it.a frontal lobotomy ??

GOD Bless

Chris

Haha.. It does look like a syringe

 

[releventchair]

Air/oil water separator for top pics?

 

[yaxthri]

The "plumbing thingy" looking like a pipe-head could be a distributor cap wire cover from an old car maybe?

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[calisdad]

Reminds me of an old fuse.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Reminds me of an old fuse.

Ill go with some kind of fuse
.

 

[Breezie]

Yeppers, I think the item on the left is an old 1940's fuse.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/180699662/vintage-fuses-4-pcs-brass-caps-labels?ref=market


Breezie

 

[Chug And Red]

Fuse, Is not working For Me!!! I'm tired And Not Thinking Right Now I Have Seen it Somewhere But I Cant Remember Right Now HI Breezie

 

[PhillyMike68]

Yeppers, I think the item on the left is an old 1940's fuse.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/180699662/vintage-fuses-4-pcs-brass-caps-labels?ref=market


Breezie

When I dug it up, the first thing that came to mind was an old TV tube without the glass covering....

 

[PhillyMike68]

I think it's one of these..

 

[jerseyjack]

looks like the valve on an old steam radiator.

 

[lockster99]

Isn't the other thingie an oiler or grease pot.

 

[seaweed]

shower head and toilet paper roller?

 

[bradyboy]

what is the orange material made of, in your opinion?
Seems like it might be an item where if your basement started to flood, the outside cap would rise and when rising would hit a contact to turn on a pump -or at least in that are of thought.
The other item looks like a gas related plumbing fitting, depends like the thread gauge and take a close look at the inside of the small port, is the inside of the small port tapered ?
Brady

 

[PhillyMike68]

I'm pretty sure jerseyjack got the bottom picture correct, looks like a valve from an old steam radiator. I found a picture.. The material seems like it was spongy at some point but it's hard as a rock now, the same material is on the inside to. The place i found it at was built in 1909, it's no longer there, it still looks like a picture tube to me or fuse of some kind....I'm stumped

 

[PhillyMike68]

Now that i look at the picture, maybe the two go together.. theres no threads on the top piece though....