Any idea what this is?

[Xebec]

Morning all,

So we finally got the keys and have taken ownership of zebec, we have found a great amount of items left over the years and found this.

Any idea what this could be?

Thanks for looking 🙂

[Alan de Enfield]

An air pump.

[howardang]

4 minutes ago, Xebec said:

Morning all,

So we finally got the keys and have taken ownership of zebec, we have found a great amount of items left over the years and found this.

Any idea what this could be?

Thanks for looking 🙂

It's a brass garden syringe, used for watering plants and spraying insecticide etc.

Search for vintage garden syringe on YouTube and there is an image of an identical one.

 

Howard

[Chewbacka]

A suction pump?

[David Schweizer]

4 minutes ago, howardang said:

It's a brass garden syringe, used for watering plants and spraying insecticide etc.

Search for vintage garden syringe on YouTube and there is an image of an identical one.

 

Howard

Yes , a garden syringe. my father had one

[Xebec]

Brilliant! Thanks so much for that

H&L

[tree monkey]

25 minutes ago, howardang said:

It's a brass garden syringe, used for watering plants and spraying insecticide etc.

Search for vintage garden syringe on YouTube and there is an image of an identical one.

 

Howard

And much fun was had on a hot summers day

[MtB]

46 minutes ago, Xebec said:

Morning all,

So we finally got the keys and have taken ownership of zebec, we have found a great amount of items left over the years and found this.

Any idea what this could be?

Thanks for looking 🙂

 

 

Probably worth about a fiver in scrap value if it doesn't work!

 

Terrible shame to throw it away though... should clearing stuff out be your intention. Flog it on ebay I'd suggest.

 

 

 

 

[LadyG]

24 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

Probably worth about a fiver in scrap value if it doesn't work!

 

Terrible shame to throw it away though... should clearing stuff out be your intention. Flog it on ebay I'd suggest.

 

 

 

 

I have a notion that it has a leather washer which could be replaced if it's not working, not much else to go wrong.

[robtheplod]

27 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

Probably worth about a fiver in scrap value if it doesn't work!

 

Terrible shame to throw it away though... should clearing stuff out be your intention. Flog it on ebay I'd suggest.

 

 

 

 

polish it up and put it on the wall as a 'feature' !

[tree monkey]

7 minutes ago, LadyG said:

I have a notion that it has a leather washer which could be replaced if it's not working, not much else to go wrong.

Yup and easily replaced

[Xebec]

Hi, no it is all staying on the boat, will find a place for it, i can now let friends guess what it is 🙂

[dave moore]

I used something similar to extract oil from the sump of our Kelvin engine. It beat dipping an old can in to get the stuff out. Never got round to fitting a proper pump!

[BilgePump]

Just now, Xebec said:

Hi, no it is all staying on the boat, will find a place for it, i can now let friends guess what it is 🙂

Good call. It's got character and easily repairable. When you get a few flowerpots on the boat, you can go all Monty Don spraying them.

[MtB]

39 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

Yup and easily replaced

 

 

Easily replaced but not so easily obtained in the first place,I suspect. 

 

 

[reg]

2 hours ago, Xebec said:

Morning all,

So we finally got the keys and have taken ownership of zebec, we have found a great amount of items left over the years and found this.

Any idea what this could be?

Thanks for looking 🙂

It's a table?

[David Schweizer]

1 hour ago, LadyG said:

I have a notion that it has a leather washer which could be replaced if it's not working, not much else to go wrong.

 

 A wide variety of sizes available from these people :- https://www.base-camp.co.uk/Cups .htm

 

They also stock possibly the best selection of Oil lamp and Paraffin Stove spares and parts in the UK.

 

 

Edited July 31, 2022 by David Schweizer

[Bee]

12 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:

 

 A wide variety of sizes available from these people :- https://www.base-camp.co.uk/Cups .htm

 

They also stock possibly the best selection of Oil lamp and Paraffin Stove spares and parts in the UK.

 

 

I rebuilt a primus stove using their parts, excellent, came in handy when the calor gas ran out last week!

[Athy]

2 hours ago, David Schweizer said:

Yes , a garden syringe. my father had one

Mine too.

[tree monkey]

49 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

Easily replaced but not so easily obtained in the first place,I suspect. 

 

 

Funnily enough I have replaced similar fairly easily but I do know a lot of horsey type peeps who know sadle makers, so scraps of leather is easy.

 

Dad used his old slaughterman apron to replace the washer but old leathers belts will also work

[reg]

http://vintagegardensyringesprayers.info/page15.html

[MtB]

39 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

Funnily enough I have replaced similar fairly easily but I do know a lot of horsey type peeps who know sadle makers, so scraps of leather is easy.

 

Dad used his old slaughterman apron to replace the washer but old leathers belts will also work

 

 

Dammit I've just thrown out my last one of those.....

 

 

 

[tree monkey]

8 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

Dammit I've just thrown out my last one of those.....

 

 

 

Yeah I appreciate that is a specialist bit of kit  he had some very sharp knifes, saws and an interesting axe as well

[David Schweizer]

2 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

Yeah I appreciate that is a specialist bit of kit  he had some very sharp knifes, saws and an interesting axe as well

One of these, I suspect :-

 

[tree monkey]

2 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:

One of these, I suspect :-

 

Sort of, it was no way as pretty as that one but it served the same purpose, dad's had a curved hook and the head was not solid but sort of made out of a strip of metal curved from the top of the shaft, odd thing and difficult to describe