Ok, my turn: What the heck is this?

[id911T]

I found this in a field 25 odd years ago and have never figured out what it really is. The Pelican brain trust has pulled off some pretty cool identifications so maybe someone here knows?

It's mostly aluminum but the spinner/slider is stainless sheet. Almost looks like a flare or a rocket? But then it has those holes to some sort of chamber in the nose. Thoughts?

[rusnak]

Looks like part of a fuel level sensor.

[Bill Douglas]

I think it's a gas flue. The sort you would have on a gas heater that is vented out (horizontally) through a wall.

Mind you, every second thing I say is wrong.

[gordner]

Tell us your second guess, then we are for sure down to one of two options.

[LWJ]

The center of a burner?

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by gordner

Tell us your second guess, then we are for sure down to one of two options.

OK... Here we go. Ladies and gents please hang onto your seats.

(give me 24 hours and I'll have a second guess)

[id911T]

Originally Posted by afterburn 549

Hand fired Parachute flare

Bingo!!!!! Looks like a M127A1 parachute flare or some variation thereof. Thanks Burn!

What a great forum

[Seahawk]

Mk-124 I guess. I had no idea!

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=M127+parachute+flare&iax=images&ia=images

[DonDavis]

More importantly, you've had that thing some 25 years?

Where do you keep it? And why?

That's a pic for the Random Thread fo sho.

[id911T]

Originally Posted by DonDavis

More importantly, you've had that thing some 25 years?

Where do you keep it? And why?

That's a pic for the Random Thread fo sho.

I keep it on my desk, it's just a childhood curio that has followed me around through life. A reminder of simpler times finding random junk in fields

[gregpark]

Found during the era of the Kaczynski FU2!
contact DHS ASAP

[craigster59]

That "Willie Pete" could light up an area, make the night time seem like day. Hopefully you weren't caught on the latrine....

[T77911S]

Originally Posted by DonDavis

More importantly, you've had that thing some 25 years?

Where do you keep it? And why?

That's a pic for the Random Thread fo sho.

thats what i was thinking.