Washing Machine Water Valve Solenoid Coil

I found this solenoid coil in the junkbox.  It came off a valve assembly for a washing machine.  These valves often get gunked up with minerals and stop working correctly.  But the coils are still OK.

I was wondering if it might have any use for ham radio applications.  The center blue tube is big enough for a ferrite rod so it might be useful for permiability tuning ?

I got out the old LC meter prototype:

It was discontinued in 2010:

http://wb9kzy.com/lcmeter.htm

It uses the shifted oscillator method to measure inductance or capacitance and outputs the measurement with Morse code.  There were two reasons why it was discontinued, first, the high accuracy leaded caps from Panasonic became unobtanium.  Second, I was never fully satisfied with the accuracy measuring inductance.

Anyway here are the measurements for the solenoid:

160 mH coil inductance
8714 Hz measurement frequency
860 ohms coil resistance (measured with Metex DVM)

It doesn't look like it would be too useful for ham radio applications, close to 1k ohms of resistance would intuitively mean to me that it wouldn't have good Q for audio or RF filtering.  Still it was worth looking at.  I do have some 88 mH toroids around here somewhere, they used to be quite popular for ham radio projects.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm