DrGrip
Sr. Member
DON'T toss the "trash" while in the field!
We all dig it, we all see it, and I HOPE we all pick it up and dispose of it properly. But, don't dispose of it in the field (proper trash container of course). Get a PERFECT ID on it as trash before you toss it.
I've been going to a little known location of late that just promises to pay off at some point once I get past all of the "juncque" that is on, and just under, the surface. This evening while I was out I once again found a "junk piece" of aluminum. I put it in my pouch to toss in the trash bin back by the old house and went on MDing around what I think is an old barn area.
After finding little more I decided to call it a day. The "junk piece was forgotten in my pouch until I got home. I was about to pitch it when the light hit it just right and I decided to wash it off and see what it was. As I began to wash it and get the mud off of it I could see that there was a definite pattern on the "star"shaped portion of it and it swiveled around to the "bent up" portion of the "junk".
After looking at it a bit more I now think that this is NOT aluminum and isn't junk either. This was tooled (machined more than likely) and probably came off of a harness or something. But, the swiveling piece doesn't "line up" as I would think it should. Basically, I have no clue what this is.
Not gold, and not anything real important I'm sure, but this is some of the stuff I love to find, old things!
Now, if I had thrown it away back at the old house I wouldn't have anything to ponder and keep me awake tonight!
I plan to clean it a bit more tomorrow and see if I can find any identification marks on it.
Grip
We all dig it, we all see it, and I HOPE we all pick it up and dispose of it properly. But, don't dispose of it in the field (proper trash container of course). Get a PERFECT ID on it as trash before you toss it.
I've been going to a little known location of late that just promises to pay off at some point once I get past all of the "juncque" that is on, and just under, the surface. This evening while I was out I once again found a "junk piece" of aluminum. I put it in my pouch to toss in the trash bin back by the old house and went on MDing around what I think is an old barn area.
After finding little more I decided to call it a day. The "junk piece was forgotten in my pouch until I got home. I was about to pitch it when the light hit it just right and I decided to wash it off and see what it was. As I began to wash it and get the mud off of it I could see that there was a definite pattern on the "star"shaped portion of it and it swiveled around to the "bent up" portion of the "junk".
After looking at it a bit more I now think that this is NOT aluminum and isn't junk either. This was tooled (machined more than likely) and probably came off of a harness or something. But, the swiveling piece doesn't "line up" as I would think it should. Basically, I have no clue what this is.
Not gold, and not anything real important I'm sure, but this is some of the stuff I love to find, old things!
Now, if I had thrown it away back at the old house I wouldn't have anything to ponder and keep me awake tonight!
I plan to clean it a bit more tomorrow and see if I can find any identification marks on it.
Grip
