• Vinny_93@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Approximate size? It kind of looks like it might be the casing to a light explosive that you set off like a match stick. We call them ‘strijkers’ in the Netherlands. Only difference is the bigger underside there.

    • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Roughly 6 inches or 15 cm. I thought it was an unexploded firework from a distance but it looks like it’s made of steel and plastic. For context, it was (and still is afaik) laying on the edge of the parking lot of a dog park near a small airport.

      • Vinny_93@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I can’t really see it being anything other than a casing of some sort. Considering the shape, size and materials it would have to be something pressurised, maybe a gas. This is not typically what nitrous tanks look like (the ones people are doing in traffic for a laugh oh my god what has happened to this world). I’ve seen some applications of drugs but this does not look like any of them. So as far as I can tell it’s either going to be something to do with construction or it’s something very specific to either dogs or aviation.

        Edit: considering the car park, could it be like a shell one would put on the longer end of a spark plug? They usually come in boxes without cases or shells but maybe a very particular one has this as a protective cover and someone has been fiddling with their vehicle there?

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Hmm, my first thought is that it’s the end piece of a “concrete vibrator”. Not typically used for sexual pleasure, but rather for consolidating fresh concrete while building.

    Bit weird, though, that it’s so comparatively short and has that yellow, wider section. That seems like it would have concrete stuck on it all the time…