What is this?

[F4Phantom]

I have asked people in the trade but no one knows. Anyone have any idea what this is? I can tell you it connects to a non pressurised hot water system. Can I just put stops on the pipes and remove it? Cheers

[Kevin B]

Sorry mate have no idea, I was curios so I uploaded the image to google for it to search and it came back with this, pretty close I think ... lol

[jimr1]

Hi mate , I'm not sure what you are asking , If It is the male stub sticking out of the cylinder on the left . What are your plans to put It back together ?Providing It's not the outlet , then yes you can put a cap on It , I would think that there should also be a male stub the same size lower down , If so that will also need a cap . They look to be 1inch BSP. Some tanks have two outlets ,and two inlets . Some not many have a facility for heating by boiler , this could also be what there for .

[F4Phantom]

Firstly I want to remove it, that should not be too hard. But I would also like to know what it is. Its in a small laundry, has hot water cycling through it (seemingly), does not seem to have a radiator as I thought it could be some sort of room heater to dry laundry. And it looks to be about 50 years old. It has a handle very much like the old kelvinator fridges with the winglett design. It also has a tube you can lift out, the tube has a series of round disks about the size of a cd and about 5cm apart each with a hole with radius of about 3cm and these holes are all offset. Its all very strange and I am very interested to know what exactly it does/did in the old days.

[V8Ian]

A water softener?

[Ancient Mariner]

Looks like an old kero water heater

[F4Phantom]

Looks like an old kero water heater

that could well be it, perhaps before the days of electric hot water, maybe it heated the water and over time warmed up the whole storage tank

[Ancient Mariner]

that could well be it, perhaps before the days of electric hot water, maybe it heated the water and over time warmed up the whole storage tank
Used to be a rectangular copper fuel tank in recess in the end, probably long gone for scrap

[F4Phantom]

Used to be a rectangular copper fuel tank in recess in the end, probably long gone for scrap

actually I took that out for the photo, thats what had the handle, but I dont think it was a tank, it was hollow

[Ancient Mariner]

Tanks usually are:D

[F4Phantom]

Tanks usually are:D

haha they sure are, but this one was more of a shell! only half a tank!

[Blknight.aus]

its a combustion water heater/room heater.

sort of between a kellys kettle a wood chip water heater and a donkey heater.

[jimr1]

You asked can you take It out ? yes take It out if you don't want it . If the pipes are still live , cap them off , the worst thing that can happen is you may have to link up the flow and return , to get a circuit . give It a go .

[Ancient Mariner]

You could cap it off or buy a tank off me and return to service:D