I'm Not Sure What This Part Is... Comments?

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I was out metal detecting the other day and found this at an old site. Can anyone
venture a guess as to what it is ???

It's cast iron with a smooth (Machined) bore. It measures exactly what it says on it
(3-10) and is 3 inches in diameter and 10 inches long.

It looks like a steam engine part to me possibly. It seems too refined to be some
sort of plumbing so am thinking of other things.

It is a good 1/4 inch thick.


Ideas ANYONE????? Thanks.
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Standard plumbing drain / repair pipe.
Keep looking and you may find the two nuts that thread on it.
It was for a quick repair on drain pipe The 3x10 is the size.

It is fun and amazing what you find when detecting.
My brother in law & I will spend all day and and have a ton of fun on fort McClellan. :)
 
Standard plumbing drain / repair pipe.
Keep looking and you may find the two nuts that thread on it.
It was for a quick repair on drain pipe The 3x10 is the size.

It is fun and amazing what you find when detecting.
My brother in law & I will spend all day and and have a ton of fun on fort McClellan. :)

A big THANK YOU for the reply. Yes, I have a lot of fun digging up interesting things. I use a Minelab Sovereign GT
for detecting and mostly use it to find coins. Now that I know what this cylinder is, I can feel free to use it in the
shop and maybe make something useful with it.
 
That's pretty neat Cathead, How far down in the ground was it? My wife and I use to metal detect when we were younger, took the three girls with us. We would mark the spots where we got a signal with popsicle sticks and the girls would carefully dig up the coins with a blunt ended screwdriver. Had loads of fun. We used White 6000di detectors, not sure if they even make them anymore.
 
That's pretty neat Cathead, How far down in the ground was it? My wife and I use to metal detect when we were younger, took the three girls with us. We would mark the spots where we got a signal with popsicle sticks and the girls would carefully dig up the coins with a blunt ended screwdriver. Had loads of fun. We used White 6000di detectors, not sure if they even make them anymore.

It was down about six inches I suppose. These newer detectors can go well over a foot deep with the larger detecting heads. It gets to be
too much digging so I use a coin shooting head (about 6 inches in diameter) and that seems to work well for me. Also one can detect in all metal
or block out ferrous materials which is usually what I do. When you are over something large though, it still gives some indication. My detector
is a "sound" machine so you listen for different tones and sounds. It takes a bit of experimentation to get competent in its operation.
 
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That one would not work for me. Even with the hearing aids it is hard to hear different tones. I thought about getting one but I work week days, the wife works weekends. no time for us to get out at this time. I have been to a few places that do not let you use them any more also.
 
I think that is a pump from an old well. the top bottom and internals are missing.
 
That's definitely for some kind of machine. If it were for a plumbing application it wouldn't have that machined bore.
 
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