Anyone recognize this brass pump ? It has a short threaded fitting at the base, 7/16 x 26 BSB, and I suspect it may have a NRV also in the base cap. Won't know for sure until I find a new leather cup to install. I've been told that it probably had a tube on the end, but perhaps it's too short to be a bicycle pump. The plunger shaft is far too long for the body. It is approx. 9 & 1/2 inches long in the body. I.D. is approx 1.192 inches ( 30 m/m ) and O.D. is approx. 1 & 1/4 inches ( 31.7 m/m ). There are no stamps or markings. Thanks.
Hi Paul, that’s a nice one ! Here are a selection from mr Mack not sure if it matches up to any of those? edit : I think Lancaster lanterns do a pump but not sure about the connector end bit? Other members will know
@podbros Thanks, but I can't read the script, it goes blurry when enlarged. Perhaps the pump had various fittings on the end, it may have been an oil filler pump, but no, the wooden handle would have been saturated. Plus it has a car type wooden handle, which may or may not be original. Thinks ..... maybe screws into a fount, spraying fruit, plants, but then no trace of chemicals inside.
Hi @Paul Aslanides Strange, seems ok on my phone.. I will repost from their web page… (with thanks to Lancaster Lanterns)
@podbros Thank you. @JEFF JOHNSON Thank you. Mine looks very much like that Coleman 451-5221, save for the different air fitting.
No it isn't. It's that length to give the operator some knuckle room. I very much doubt it. What purpose would it serve? Your pump may originally have been fitted with a tube similar to this example posted by @JEFF JOHNSON 9 lamp pumps. This type of pump had the leather facing the opposite way so it acted like a vacuum pump and was used for sucking the last dregs of (possibly contaminated) fuel from lamp tanks.
@Paul Aslanides have you examined the pump plunger ? The position of remains of a leather washer could help determine wether or not the pump was intended to pressurise a tank. Push = pressure Pull = vacuum, though if this was the case, it's likely there were two leathers facing opposite ways. No guarantees of course because no one knows who has been messing with it before it came into your hands.
