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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 135282, member: 55&quot;]It rotates?&nbsp; Style looks fairly modern, 60s or 70s if not newer, but it is pretty rusty for that kind of age, except for the washers on the bottom.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;d guess it has been out in the rain; made by a hobbyist with a welder, just because he could, and put out in the garden for 40-50 years....</p><p><br /></p><p>I read &quot;1600 ASA&quot; which sounds like a film speed, but likely refers to a standard for pipe flanges; &quot;ASA/ANSI&quot; = American Standards Association/American National Standards Institute.&quot;&nbsp; 1600 ASA would refer to a specific-sized flange under that standard.&nbsp; See <a href="http://www.ancorp.com/familypdfs/file725200881348am63.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ancorp.com/familypdfs/file725200881348am63.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ancorp.com/familypdfs/file725200881348am63.pdf</a> for examples of that usage.</p><p><br /></p><p>In other words, this was assembled from pieces on hand; an old flange; rings on the base cut from pipe that was lying around.&nbsp; Speaks of hobbyist welder to me.</p><p>&nbsp; The ASA was reorganized and renamed in 1966, so pipe fittings with an ASA designation are likely not much newer than 1966, though I&#039;m sure stock with older markings continued to be used for some time after that, and a hobbyist could easily have ASA marked fittings in his basement for years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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