🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Any ideas? Gyroscope?

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I have seen something like that but it is not a gyroscope. Maybe a part to a sprinkler timer box, the old style like 1960 to 70's. But who knows I tore stuff apart to see how it worked, so it could be I saw it somewhere other than that idea.
 

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Definitely a flywheel, IMO, and a gyroscope employs a flywheel. But if it were part of a gyroscope, the spindle would be equal on both sides.

What's the material?
 

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Definitely a flywheel, IMO, and a gyroscope employs a flywheel. But if it were part of a gyroscope, the spindle would be equal on both sides.

What's the material?

I’m not certain😅 the round part itself is not magnetic but the spindle it.
It has some definite weight to it at 4.23oz.

If I were to guess I think maybe lead
 

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I’m not certain😅 the round part itself is not magnetic but the spindle it.
It has some definite weight to it at 4.23oz.

If I were to guess I think maybe lead
That--combined with the mass of the wheel concentrated on the perimeter--pretty much confirms the flywheel hypothesis.

As to what it went to.... ? :dontknow:
Flywheels are made from many different materials; the application determines the choice of material. Small flywheels made of lead are found in children's toys. Cast iron flywheels are used in old steam engines. Flywheels used in car engines are made of cast or nodular iron, steel or aluminum. Flywheels made from high-strength steel or composites have been proposed for use in vehicle energy storage and braking systems.
 

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