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A medieval marital aid? 
outofthefire
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Home made swimfeeder
Wendelspanswick
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Are you on holiday there?
It's become very upmarket and gentrified since my youth, it's now full of boutiques, galleries and posh eateries whereas in my youth it was a cheap and cheerful seaside town with some decent pubs.
It's become very upmarket and gentrified since my youth, it's now full of boutiques, galleries and posh eateries whereas in my youth it was a cheap and cheerful seaside town with some decent pubs.
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Is the end a clean cut or does it have a thread inside?
Can't see clearly.
Can't see clearly.
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It's not cheap to eat out now! Plenty of galleries etc although there is a nice little antiques shop that has a few old tools in it. I picked up a new looking MT3 dead centre and two Presto metric taps for £8 yesterday.
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I know where you are, I picked up a nice Mitituyo 0-12mm micrometer in its case for £8, the missus had to drag me away otherwise I would have been ages in there.It's not cheap to eat out now! Plenty of galleries etc although there is a nice little antiques shop that has a few old tools in it. I picked up a new looking MT3 dead centre and two Presto metric taps for £8 yesterday.
My daughter is a Geology graduate so we would visit the fossil shops after working the cliffs at Charmouth.
Hiring a boat from Beer and chugging round the bay mackerel fishing is fun and Seatown (not Seaton) and Branscombe are a bit quieter and more picturesque.
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could be off the end of a pump pipe to stop things being sucked up
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Ive seen ordnance fuses with a similar design, but not up on them enough to be able to confirm or deny
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we used to stay in a Caravan in Beer, the Caravans are set on the side of the hill facing the sea, lovely views, the walk back up the hill after a few beers was tough though lol
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Having said that - I have looked for pictures online and can't find anything similar. My dad used to work at an ordnance depot (he did quite a few jobs making bits and pieces for the bomb disposal people). We had various ornaments made from shells and there were some made from the detonators which screw into the bottom of the shell. Those had holes in like in your picture. I'm talking about the part which detonates the charge to send the bullet on it's way rather than the part in the tip which detonates the warhead when it contacts it's target.
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A rough guess ,it,s part of a timer for a mine,sea water enters through the holes and disolves a substance that holds the firing pin off,after a set time it goes bang.
dont laugh but gob stoppers as a "timing medium" comes to mind.
Well I never-------- it survived the explosion quite well !
only ended up with a small dent
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Seen smaller detonators that look similar to that Lots of ordnance was dumped in the sea, could be from that
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Could well be from a piece of ordnance, modern 4.5 inch shells have a similar (but longer) steel primer tube that screws into the brass cartridge base so it's probable other types would have the same sort of arrangement. From the size of it possibly from a smaller anti aircraft piece perhaps?
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4.5 inch one is like the one on the right.
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Yes, for the 4.5 Mk 8 and later 4.5 Mk 6 Same size different gun.
If it is a venting tube for a weapon system or some sort of ordinance it is likely not to be from a gun over 3".
it looks similar, but not identical to a version of the Bangalore torpedoes used on the invasion of france. It is close, but again not identical, to some of the spigot mortars of the same age.
