How about another "Anybody know what this is?" thread.

[Yossarian 208]

https://news.yahoo.com/homeowner-says-mystery-object-damaged-223834142.html

[ZXT 2,401]

LOL. Can't get much more redneck than a falling object damaging a Kentucky mans trailer house!

 

The first picture with the damaged corrugated metal made the object look as though it had some sort of "tail". I had to look at that twice!

 

I'd bet it's some object he made up in order to get his 15 seconds of fame.

[bc.gold 3,403]

2 hours ago, Yossarian said:

https://news.yahoo.com/homeowner-says-mystery-object-damaged-223834142.html

[cafoose 3,354]

Looks like @bcgold nailed it

 

[ZXT 2,401]

What are they typically used for?

 

[Stormin 9,981]

In automobiles I'd say.

[Ed Kennell 38,022]

Guess those UFOs have air bags.  

[adsm08 2,022]

8 hours ago, ZXT said:

What are they typically used for?

 

 

It's an airbag inflator, for a supplemental restrains system.

 

The physics is very much  like a bullet being fired from a gun, but in normal use they are bolted down very securely and can't move when the airbag deploys.

 

If an airbag is set off outside a vehicle, and not positioned face up it is akin to setting off a bullet outside a gun. That cannister puts out a lot of force but weighs about a pound, so if some redneck a mile up the road was setting off airbags and did one face down, well that cannister goes flying.

[WHX?? 48,782]

Thought I read once in the early days of SRS they used solid rocket fuel to inflate air bags??? 

[Ed Kennell 38,022]

Lucky it wasn't one of these.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=acetylene+cylinder+accidents&&view=detail&mid=55B8E3749FC5B1AB4AE955B8E3749FC5B1AB4AE9&&FORM=VRDGAR

 

Edited October 28, 2019 by Ed Kennell

[rmaynard 15,427]

Funny how most UFO sightings and things falling from the sky happen in or near trailer parks. 

[953 nut 55,080]

10 hours ago, rmaynard said:

things falling from the sky happen in or near trailer parks.

In Florida it seemed like the majority of tornadoes were attracted to trailer parks,      could be the shinny tin roofs. 

[adsm08 2,022]

21 hours ago, WHX24 said:

Thought I read once in the early days of SRS they used solid rocket fuel to inflate air bags??? 

It was more like a small TNT charge, but yeah, basically.

[Lane Ranger 10,946]

 

 

Here is a tool that took a while to figure out what it was!   I will post answer after a few days!

 

 

 

[Pullstart 62,795]

Old school dowel puller?  

[Stormin 9,981]

On ‎10‎/‎28‎/‎2019 at 2:47 AM, Ed Kennell said:

Lucky it wasn't one of these.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=acetylene+cylinder+accidents&&view=detail&mid=55B8E3749FC5B1AB4AE955B8E3749FC5B1AB4AE9&&FORM=VRDGAR

 

 

  One day when I was working, the H&S decided we should have a safety lecture on the various gases used in the plant. We were told not to transport gas bottles with them lying down. To drive this message home, we were shown a photo' of the drivers side of a van, with the front of the cab missing. The driver had an acetylene bottle in the back lying down, top pointing to the rear, Stopped at some traffic lights and decided to light a cigarette.

  The driver was not sitting in the drivers seat. Well not all of him. Just from  his hips down. Acet' bottle must have had a leak and he hadn't noticed.

[Macwrench 133]

12 hours ago, Lane Ranger said:

 

 

Here is a tool that took a while to figure out what it was!   I will post answer after a few days!

 

 

 

Is that a left handed thread?

[Pullstart 62,795]

13 hours ago, Macwrench said:

Is that a left handed thread?

 

Good eye!  I believe it is too 

[Lane Ranger 10,946]

I believe so  Macwrench!

 

[Lane Ranger 10,946]

18 hours ago, Stormin said:

 

  One day when I was working, the H&S decided we should have a safety lecture on the various gases used in the plant. We were told not to transport gas bottles with them lying down. To drive this message home, we were shown a photo' of the drivers side of a van, with the front of the cab missing. The driver had an acetylene bottle in the back lying down, top pointing to the rear, Stopped at some traffic lights and decided to light a cigarette.

  The driver was not sitting in the drivers seat. Well not all of him. Just from  his hips down. Acet' bottle must have had a leak and he hadn't noticed.

 

I heard a story the other day about a man that took a large propane bottle to a metal recycler to get some money for it.  The metal recycler told him they did not take old style propane (or any propane, acytelen) .  The recycler was cussed out royally by the man  and told that that was their policy and it was for his and the companies employees safety.  The guy who brought the tank than proceeded to  drive his truck with the tnak outside the recycler property to a parking lot and cut up the tank with a portable welder he had with him.  The result was the metal recycler had to call an EMT ambulance to the parking lot as the old propane tank blew up and blew one of the man's leg's off.

 

 

Edited October 31, 2019 by Lane Ranger

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

5 hours ago, pullstart said:

 

Good eye!  I believe it is too 

Yall are too quick for me l noticed that too!!

[Stormin 9,981]

 I've made one or two patio heaters from propane tanks. Only after they have been completely empied of liquid gas and have been filled with water for a few days.

[Macwrench 133]

5 hours ago, Lane Ranger said:

I believe so  Macwrench!

 

That's got to be one half of some kind of turnbuckle or something.  I'm thinking the other side of that knob has a right handed thread.  It's to hold down, or draw something together, but I have no idea what.  Maybe part of an old bailer or something.