🔎 UNIDENTIFIED This has been driving me crazy

[Nathan W]

Anyone? Found at 1890s mill site. I've found a lot of "parts to machinery and model T cars , got to be part of them right? It's almost like it's a vent type thing that opens and closes , moves maybe. Than you got alll the holes so idk I was going to trash them.

 

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[robertk]

Sandwich a wheel between them and put a bolt through the middle and it could be a pulley. I wouldn’t think you’d need those other holes for that though.

 

[Nathan W]

Sandwich a wheel between them and put a bolt through the middle and it could be a pulley. I wouldn’t think you’d need those other holes for that though.

After putting them together that’s a very possibility. I think you’re on to something.

 

[pepperj]

Put a glass or metal tube that just fits one very inner ring.
One plate on each end.
A threaded connection rod runs through the 4 holes.
Then the nuts on either end.
There's the intake on the ends where the hose connects.

 

[Nathan W]

Sandwich a wheel between them and put a bolt through the middle and it could be a pulley. I wouldn’t think you’d need those other holes for that though.

Something like this?

 

[robertk]

Something like this?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I could be way off though.

 

[Kevinrochay]

Anyone? Found at 1890s mill site. I've found a lot of "parts to machinery and model T cars , got to be part of them right? It's almost like it's a vent type thing that opens and closes , moves maybe. Than you got alll the holes so idk I was going to trash them.

Cool finds! It sounds like you might have some old machine parts and maybe some pieces from Model T cars at the mill site. Those vent-looking things could be parts that open and close, or maybe they move somehow.

 

[pepperj]

Anyone? Found at 1890s mill site. I've found a lot of "parts to machinery and model T cars , got to be part of them right? It's almost like it's a vent type thing that opens and closes , moves maybe. Than you got alll the holes so idk I was going to trash them.

Nathan is there a hole running through this part or solid?

 

[Nathan W]

Nathan is there a hole running through this part or solid? View attachment 2137920

Runs through

 

[Almy]

Looks like cases for centrifugal pump to me. Perhaps an auto cooling system pump.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

electric motor ends, with lube ports. Starter?

 

[robertk]

electric motor ends, with lube ports. Starter?

I like this idea. Put some long threaded rod through the four outer holes, the axle for the rotor sticking through the center holes, an outer shell around it (that sits around that protruding ring), and that could definitely be a motor or generator.