This is an easy on for an Old Fart. What you have is a carbon tetrachloride
fire extinguisher. When carbon tet is sprayed on a fire it vaporized into a
gas heavier than air which smothered the fire. Carbon tet was also used by
young model builders to assemble plastic models. If you could carefully
apply it to the edges to be joined, it would glue them together. If it ran
onto the surface it etched it and made it look like shit, with your finger
prints usually in it.
I have also been told that some young modeler were thought to have sniffed
it in order to induce the 1950's equivalent of a "high". It was found to
have harmful effects on the kidneys and liver so it was pretty much taken
off of the shelves at neighborhood drug and hardware store.
Of course, I never inhaled.
GJB
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