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My father got one of the copper/brass fire extinguishers from the old railroad depot when it closed. Some stupid fella (me) filled it with water for some reason?  It was stored in our unheated garage so it froze and split the whole side out of it.  My dad was making us clean out the garage for a dump run, which as a teenager, pissed me off.  I threw it out, along with several rail cutoffs that could be used as anvils….man that was stupid of me.  I wish I had one of those now.  Ahh, the stupid shit teenagers do.  I still have a smaller one that is used for a doorstop.  Dad brought a couple home, a guy in the shops made them.  I’m not sure where the other/s are, I think at least one of my siblings has one?  I use this one for a doorstop, and an anvil.  Mostly for junior leatherwork and junior gun-smithing.  The paint has a few dings on it from anvil use.  I think the doorstop in my mom’s garage is a bearing from a rail car wheel.  It a steel cylinder about 3 1/2”-4” in diameter and 3”-4” tall.  I have pressed it into service as an anvil in the past as well.

@opipeman my father was a fireman for 40 years. I remember seeing those smaller hand pump extinguishers at the house from time to time.  He would periodically bring home those taller old brass ones as well.