What is it by Onetonford?

Here is my what is it?

I think it's a flare used for safety marking on higway construction prior to batteries. The fuel was probably petroleum based.

Added: the flanges hung from mating pieces mounted to barricades which looked like orange and white long saw horses.

I second what Glen said.....some kind of lantern / flare thingy-ma-bob!

Another one for the flair lanern, for some reason my grandfather had one. The ones I really remember were round container for the oil.

You Know what I'm not that old but I can remember these being used on construction sites when my dad would take us kids for rides to show us the sites.

one more pict for ya it was used for plumbing.



By the way it still works great! I use it for casting sinkers!

Used for pouring lead solder on cast drain pipe connections. ???

Without the full assembly, I'd have said it was some sort of smudge pot as well.

Seeing it all together, you can tell it's for melting lead to sweat pipe together.

Excellent what is it post.

My grandfather by trade was a finish carpenter but he also did plumbing and Masonary. and yes it was for cast or sand pipe as some people call it.

onetonford wrote:one more pict for ya it was used for plumbing.



By the way it still works great! I use it for casting sinkers!

Cast iron pipe solder.

onetonford wrote:one more pict for ya it was used for plumbing.



By the way it still works great! I use it for casting sinkers!

JUST BE SAFE WITH THAT THING. BREATHING THE FUMES CAN BE DEADLY
I knew a fellow that got Lead Poison from casting sinkers by using one of things. He is no longer with us.

Amen.

I used one when a telephone cable splicer back way back, ha... The "splicers helper" would be above ground, not in manhole with flameable tools, and would send down hot lead for wiping lead sleeves on lead telephone cables... I was sure glad when they did away with it and went with cast steel closures and then plastic..

So this pot was used for many different jobs, as most can see.

John&ConnieNeeley wrote:I used one when a telephone cable splicer back way back, ha... The "splicers helper" would be above ground, not in manhole with flameable tools, and would send down hot lead for wiping lead sleeves on lead telephone cables... I was sure glad when they did away with it and went with cast steel closures and then plastic..

So this pot was used for many different jobs, as most can see.

The Funny part is it came from a place right down the road from you Tipton California.

I would say it is a long way down the road.

10.3 miles as the Crow flies...... anymore just a wide spot in the Hiway 99 corridor..

Yepeprs. Just like a lot of the wide spots on the road along 33 that use to the West sides Interstate 5.

My grandfather built his house in Tipton right across the street from the Catolic church. and my father use to work at a signal gas station that was actually on the 99 roadside.

And the last of the big orange balls are gone. Never ate at one. Wish I had.

who knows? maybe like Me & Eds pizza they were here for awhile then gone and now back.

Can only dream