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Nope. This thing goes in the fire and water/glycol/etc flows through the metal part, fire/flue gases go through the half inch or so holes.
My money would be on a non-Crane brand oil furnace from the 40's. Maybe as late as the 60's for residential up north. Otherwise it's a small part of a commercial furnace/boiler.
If there's only an "inlet" then it's a steam boiler. And dirt old.
That looks like a radiator block. The holes allow air to flow throw cooling the metal which should house a fluid that is hot and through conduction and some other science stuff comes out much cooler. Think like the big fan on the back of a water cooled PC.
Based on the size, it looks like an old tractor radiator or a stationary steam donkey radiator that was used to pull equipment up a hill using ropes or lines.
Definitely some type of radiator or boiler system. I’m guessing to an old house/farm house on a farm stead. Doubtful if it went to a car due to its mass and looking to be all cast iron with no aluminum fins for less weight and better heat loss. Also the big hole for either a stack or a large pipe is saying to me it goes in a building boiler system.
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Heat exchanger. Part of a boiler. Fire and smoke goes up through the holes and out a stack. Water circulating around the holes gets hot.
I’m not sure, but I’m thinking the fire goes inside this part (assuming it has an unseen exhaust hole.
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Nope. This thing goes in the fire and water/glycol/etc flows through the metal part, fire/flue gases go through the half inch or so holes.
My money would be on a non-Crane brand oil furnace from the 40's. Maybe as late as the 60's for residential up north. Otherwise it's a small part of a commercial furnace/boiler.
If there's only an "inlet" then it's a steam boiler. And dirt old.
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That looks like a radiator block. The holes allow air to flow throw cooling the metal which should house a fluid that is hot and through conduction and some other science stuff comes out much cooler. Think like the big fan on the back of a water cooled PC.
Looks like an old cast iron radiator
Hmm a radiator all by itself in the mountains, I wonder what happened here?
Any chance there’s an old rail bed around? That is a piece of cast used to manage heat in some manner, quite possibly from a smaller steam engine.
Water heater
Might be part of a steam locomotive that holes the boiler tube.
Looks like part of a boiler heat exchanger, maybe for Steam
Based on the size, it looks like an old tractor radiator or a stationary steam donkey radiator that was used to pull equipment up a hill using ropes or lines.
That’s a cast-iron heat exchanger from an old furnace or boiler. The holes are for heat tubes, not an engine block.
Definitely some type of radiator or boiler system. I’m guessing to an old house/farm house on a farm stead. Doubtful if it went to a car due to its mass and looking to be all cast iron with no aluminum fins for less weight and better heat loss. Also the big hole for either a stack or a large pipe is saying to me it goes in a building boiler system.
Ice cream cone mold early 1900’s???
Radiator
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That definitely looks like some old heating element! Bet it has some wild history behind it!!
Part of a “technical” those holes are for rockets… hillbillies doing their thing
Looks like part of an old boiler.
Radiator from an old tractor or truck, very old 20's or 30's old !!!
Fire tube boiler. Less efficient heat exchange than a water tube boiler, but also less prone to heat-induced cracking.
Spit on that thang!
For a 1938 to 1940 vehicle