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Offline Shreckmeister

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Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« on: April 30, 2019, 04:12:04 AM »
Recently dug in Indiana.









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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2019, 03:42:23 PM »
 Wow! That is really cool.

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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2019, 07:20:03 PM »
tomahawks had screw in bowls?  threads inside the bowl?     part of a lamp would have been my guess but my deck's shy a few cards..
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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2019, 07:26:32 PM »
Could be part of an oil drip device on an early piece of equipment. Or  something similiar .  Can't see it as a pipe bowl.  Just my opinion......LP

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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2019, 08:37:47 PM »
My first thought on seeing that, was that it was a 1960's pot pipe bowl.  I remember when such pipes were being sold as modular units to keep the police away.

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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2019, 11:10:59 PM »
I would think the hole is too small to feed lamp wires through and too big for oil dripping.  It was dug at a site where other
indian artifacts, a 1790 coin and some flint tools were found.  Don't crush my dreams :)  I can rule out the pot pipe.  Here's
another pipe that was dug in the same place.








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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2019, 12:50:16 AM »
This "bowl" looks just like the axle lubricant cups on my 1870's huge general store coffee mill by Swift Mill. Mine has knurled caps which screw into the threaded bowl.

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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2019, 03:23:23 AM »
Can you shoot me a pic
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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2019, 04:31:02 PM »
This is a oil cup from a hit and miss engine. Note that the cap screws into the top of the cup. Unfortunately I suspect you have something like this.





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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2019, 12:34:52 AM »
I think you're right.  A bit disappointing
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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2019, 10:17:39 PM »
I think you're right.  A bit disappointing



Maybe so; but it's still cool.
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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2019, 11:40:05 PM »
When I saw it was NPT, tapered, in other words, and had a hex nut cast in, I really wondered who had been using old motor parts for a pipe bowl.
Really wish it was a tomahawk pipe.
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Re: Pipe Tomahawk screw in bowl
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2019, 01:02:39 AM »
Gives you a reason to make a hit and miss engine.  You have the first  part.