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Is that a key attached to the one on the right?
Naturally, it is a thingamajig, if used in conjunction with a doohickey it will transform into a multi molecular disposal unit for bio hazard waste from the collagen outreach program at the local quicky mart.
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There are no keys attached.
It is not a torch for heating a soldering iron.
They did at one time, contain a flamable liqued.
And, no to a kerosene lamp.

I'm shutting down for tonight.
I'll check back in the morning.
 
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They are old roadside warning signals. I'm not sure of their actual name. They put them along the edge of excavations and other hazards. I remember they used to have round ones too. They looked like bombs.
 
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AMCguy said:
They are old roadside warning signals. I'm not sure of their actual name. They put them along the edge of excavations and other hazards. I remember they used to have round ones too. They looked like bombs.
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Nope
Good guess though
 
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If nobody gets it by tonight, I'll reveal the answer.

Some of you got it partly right.
However, "torch" is nowhere in their name.
 
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I have one that has two smaller cylinders made by LENK, Model #175. I think they were used for all kinds of things, including jewelry making and repair.

Maybe used to start a steam engine?
 
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porschedude996TT said:
I have one that has two smaller cylinders made by LENK, Model #175. I think they were used for all kinds of things, including jewelry making and repair.
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I have one of those as well.
Similar tool, with a similar use, but how they work and what their called is different.

Thats probably as close as anybody is going to get though.



Like I said, I'll reveal the answer in full tonight.
 
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Alright, so here's the answer.

Alcohol torch was pretty close, but the actual name is "Blow Pipe" (no their not for smoking anything)



This one is missing a rubber tube that should be attached to the thing on the side.
They would be filled with alcohol, and the wick would be lit, and then you would blow lightly through the hose onto the flame.
The blowing, of course, produced a much hotter flame than just letting it burn.
They could be used for soldering small items, or anything like that.
Larger versions that worked on the same principle were used in laboratories.
 
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Pity "torch" isn't in the name, because if there were ever anything that needed to be called a "blow torch", that'd be it! ;-)
 
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