My 1st whatchamacallit

Redruuum75 · Sep 23, 2021

Hi everyone. I found my first official whatisit.
Quarter shown for size. Roughly 2 inches long, 1/4" in diameter. The center section seems to be possibly ceramic or similar. The caps on the ends seem to be a metal ( obviously some part of this is metal because it gave a beep) but is not magnetic in the slightest.
Now for the weird part ( in my eyes) - on one end, there look to be 5 holes just like a little pepper shaker but it's way too small.
Have shown a few people and everyone is stumped. Can you help me finger out what this is please?

Redruuum75 · Sep 23, 2021

I was thinking maybe just an old ceramic fuse, but the pepper shaker holes on the end don't make sense

EmuDetector · Sep 23, 2021

My first thought is some kind of smoking pipe. I've seen some creative looking ones over my old career. Can you get through the crud and see what's on the other end? My second guess is some kind of torch tip.

Redruuum75 · Sep 23, 2021

Scrubbed it up a bit, and found the pepper shaker holes on both ends. I can't tell if there are 4 or 5 holes on each end. The barrel part seems to be a smoky glass or plastic- when held up to light, it's translucent, but I see no fuse wire inside.

Voriax · Sep 23, 2021

Tubular ceramic capacitor?

Voriax

BuckO · Sep 23, 2021

Flux Capacitor... LOL

Walknstik · Sep 23, 2021

n/t??

Redruuum75 · Sep 24, 2021

Don't what what n/t means, sorry.

dickyoung · Sep 24, 2021

The shape is wrong,but how about a cutting torch nozzle or a burner of some sort?

davedude · Oct 7, 2021

Looks like a wirewound power resistor to me. I'm pretty sure that's what it is.

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