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Reply #15 - May 8th, 2018 at 11:44am
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I have had a couple of black powder cans like that over the years, still have one. I had always been told that it is the kind of can used in the old general stores to sell powder out of. They would sell it by the metal cap full. That is what I was always told anyway.

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Reply #16 - May 8th, 2018 at 2:59pm
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BP wrote on May 8th, 2018 at 12:02am:
marlinguy wrote on May 7th, 2018 at 11:37pm:
notlwonk wrote on May 7th, 2018 at 7:19pm:
Smudge Pot? Well, that's not very glamorous.  Smiley
The condition of it leads me to believe that it's not.
 


Seems pretty small for a smudge pot?

I've got an old set of three that still have their nice shiny red paint and the mounting bracket that holds them to the kick panel, each is 4 1/2" in diameter and the same in height, not counting the neck.


Considering the intended use of a smudge pot to keep plants and orchards from frost damage, the size seems much too small to do any good?
  
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Reply #17 - May 8th, 2018 at 3:14pm
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I hazily seem to recall from my youth that in pre flare days small pots were set out on the highway for nighttime accidents.
  
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Reply #18 - May 8th, 2018 at 3:21pm
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     All the old CHEVY pickups had a stack of 3 behind the seat for use as road flares.

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Reply #19 - May 8th, 2018 at 5:44pm
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As I remember from my long-gone youth, the roadwork pots were ball-shaped with flat bottoms, maybe a pair of hanging rings, and a wick and cover.

Also, I'm sure I've seen a can like this before - maybe for storing tea? - though the rust pattern also strongly suggests that it did store black powder, which is hygroscopic, at least for a while.

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Reply #20 - May 8th, 2018 at 10:10pm
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The pots set out by the county road crews were bigger (so the crew didn't have to come out and refill them as often) and different shaped than the three stack ones that you carried in your rig.
  
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