r/Whatisthis • u/Quirky-Bar4236 • Nov 29 '24
What is this thing that I found in my attic? Open
Thanks!
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u/Medical-Lobster8795 Nov 29 '24
It kinda looks like the machine they used to cremate my dog lol
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u/atribecalledcorey Nov 29 '24
Try cremating something in it.
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u/scuzzle-butt Nov 29 '24
Cremate deez nuts
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u/BeeHive83 Nov 29 '24
Hey Deez called for you.
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u/Drumdevil86 Nov 29 '24
That's nuts
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u/BeeHive83 Nov 29 '24
Lol. Now ask me who is deez.
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u/Drumdevil86 Nov 29 '24
Me who is Deez?
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u/BeeHive83 Nov 29 '24 edited Nov 29 '24
Me. Deeeeezzzzz NUUUTTSSS. Haha got you
Eta: oh, also Joe called for you.
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u/Psilologist Nov 29 '24
He needs to cremate the infant he put in it. I think we've got it reddit!
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u/Sufficient-Cold-9496 Nov 29 '24
Aircraft underwing storage pod? Straps/bolts to the side of an aircraft under the / by the wing for additional storage space
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u/boxmail2800 Nov 29 '24
Prop judging by the painting details. You could do baby pics in it like Superman!!!!
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u/t20six Nov 29 '24
Can you fit in it? Might make a good sensory deprivation chamber
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u/vito1221 Nov 30 '24
Jump in it and close it up when you're alone. If it locks and you can't get out, you will enjoy that thing for the rest of your life.
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u/Ov3rtheLine Nov 29 '24
Looks too janky with thin metal and weak rivets to be a hyperbaric chamber. Too clean to be a smoker.
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u/Siglet84 Nov 29 '24
That appears to be industrial insulation. We use something very similar on steam pipes.
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u/bdubble Nov 30 '24
Yeah it's clearly prop-level construction and not any real functioning equipment. This thread is disappointing me
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u/Beagle001 Nov 29 '24
Early sensory Deprivation tank?
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u/Ted-Chips Nov 29 '24
I'd go with sensory dep for sure. Good eye.
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u/WokeUpSomewhereNice Nov 30 '24
early sensory deprivation tank for BEER I would use ice as well tho to deprive the beer of its senses.
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u/tstew117 Nov 29 '24
Maybe a time capsule?
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u/meat_assembly Nov 29 '24
That's my thought. Looks like the one we buried in school. It didn't have the legs/supports though.
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u/tstew117 Nov 29 '24
Yeah I was just noticing that, more so because it almost seems bonded with the floor which would kind of throw that out.
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u/VintageZooBQ Nov 30 '24
Yeah, the caulking (? - Gorilla Glue?) to the floor has me thrown.
The horror movie type in me thinks that with all of the insulation that it's large enough to put a crying baby in so someone wouldn't have to listen to it. The window is to check in on it. Worst case thought process.
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u/Revolio_ClockbergJr Nov 29 '24
It is an unintentional time capsule, at very least. The texture and color on that sheet metal makes me think of products from the 50s-60s
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u/Unusualhuman Nov 29 '24
Probably a prop from a local theater production- one that sold tickets for multiple shows and the thing needed to be able to hold up with someone jumping out of it every night for a few weeks. Not like a prop for a 2-performance school play. So it's well made, but doesn't really serve any purpose now. Someone thought it was cool and saved it in the attic.
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u/1ScaredWalrus Nov 29 '24
The tin on the outside looks like the cladding for industrial insulation, it would be covering rockwool insulation. Very common for industrial vessels to be insulated like this.
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u/ozzy_thedog Nov 29 '24
Does it have some kind of drain? I wonder if it was a homemade beer cooler or something. If it was a time capsule it would have some kind of latch or lock
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u/SurgeonRx2 Nov 29 '24
I thought of a 70s or 80s tanning bed from when my dad was a kid those things used to look like shit
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u/curlygreenbean Nov 29 '24
If there’s no plausible function based on these comments, perhaps it’s just a homemade time capsule! Designed to look “cool”.
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u/KryptosBC Nov 29 '24
There are a handful of bomb-shaped ice chests on Google search that look a bit like this.
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u/indiana-floridian Nov 29 '24
This is: from a hospital
Nursing floor to pharmacy. vacuum tube. Papers to pharmacy. Medicines to the nurse. ABOUT 1985.
Very similar to the pneumatic tube you use when you go to the drive through at the bank.
The photography makes it look bigger than it is.
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u/Siglet84 Nov 29 '24
That appears to be insulated with high temp insulation like we use on steam lines.
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u/crosleyxj Nov 29 '24 edited Nov 29 '24
It looks to be welded and riveted aluminum. Is that correct?
Aircraft fabricators and mechanics make some very elaborate constructions. I suspect it's a storage module for the outside of a helicopter or small plane.
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u/Trappedbirdcage Nov 29 '24
I would have thought this was some prepper's way of surviving a nuclear blast
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u/RedCoatSus Nov 29 '24
Looks like a warp nacelle from Kirk’s Enterprise. Maybe a model/miniature/prop?
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u/ParaGonX123 Nov 29 '24
It looks like some isolated/insulated storage case to store food or chemicals, an oversized knock off BBQ party ice box, maybe?
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u/Lowcountry25 Nov 29 '24
It's a cooler.
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u/Quirky-Bar4236 Nov 30 '24
I think you’re on to something. The inside feels like a cooler.
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u/bentbrewer Nov 30 '24
I’ll bet it was some kind of promotional thing for beer or other canned/bottled drink. Does it seem to be painted over?
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u/upinsnakes Nov 30 '24
What's that cord go to? Lights?
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u/Quirky-Bar4236 Nov 30 '24
Cord is for the internet. My Dad and I ran it through the wall because the previous owners left it in the middle of the garage.
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u/upinsnakes Nov 30 '24
At first I was gonna say some sorta composter, but I'd think the bin would rotate and not need a giant thick door like that. Plus why white and red if it was?
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u/OGBrewSwayne Nov 30 '24
How does one just find this in the attic?
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u/Quirky-Bar4236 Nov 30 '24
I’m gonna say something really stupid: Attics give me the creeps and so I never went up there.🤣🤣
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u/LinnMarie12 Nov 30 '24
It kinda looks like an old style pneumatic tube used in hospitals and at banks.
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u/Tikala Nov 30 '24
How heavy is it? My gut reaction was homemade prop for a play. I remember making stuff like this out of cardboard and spray paint for sci-Fi themed plays.
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u/5ForBiting Nov 30 '24
Looks like a homemade spaceship toy for a toddler, or maybe it was one that used to take quarters and rock, and the new owner painted it.
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u/luckyapples11 Nov 30 '24
Any markings? Numbers, company, city/state, etc.? Might be hard to find, most likely on the bottom or on a leg
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u/Cleanbriefs Nov 30 '24
B53 nuclear bomb replica the “port” is to put an insert that has the bomb’s controls to arm it disarm it. It’s a prop.
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u/Ya-Dikobraz Nov 30 '24
Looks like a prop from a science fiction show.
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u/Gargun20 Nov 30 '24
The Fringe TV Show Olivia Dunham hopped in one.
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u/623fer Nov 30 '24
Not sure why, but my mind immediately jumped to the alien pod from Kino der Toten from black ops zombies.
It looks like a prop, like you’re not meant to look at it this closely
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u/sherbert-yum Nov 30 '24
I just ran it through google images, which shows it either as a bomb or a smoker. Good thing it was empty 😜
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u/scruffy-the-janitor1 Nov 30 '24
Looks like one of those floaters you put on the side of your boat so it doesn’t bounce against the dock.
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u/lavenderbrownies Nov 30 '24
Does it plug up to anything? It looks like something someone made with their kids to play outer space in
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u/dragonfly_for_life Nov 30 '24
It looks like the sensory deprivation chamber I used to use in the 90’s. You fill it with warm water and epsom salt, channel in some music, and float and meditate. Does it have a way to heat up or at least keep the water warm?
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u/Cthulhu606 Nov 29 '24
Kinda looks like a hyperbaric chamber. Does it have air line hookups?