🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Can someone help me identify this please, it is very heavy.

[wamy22]

 

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[hollARDog]

Sheared spline shaft?

 

[wamy22]

Sheared spline shaft?

Isn’t it a bit small for that?

 

[wamy22]

Isn’t it a bit small for that?

It’s also sort of concave on what I am calling the bottom (second picture)

 

[hollARDog]

They come in all sizes🤘 I'm just guessing out loud🤠

 

[hollARDog]

It’s also sort of concave on what I am calling the bottom (second picture)

I was wondering that myself. I appeared that way.

 

[wamy22]

I was wondering that myself. I appeared that way.

I thought it may have been a weight of some type, it looks kinda like a coin die but I think I’m just being a little over zealous haha

 

[cudamark]

What metal is it made of? Looks like a lead plug.

 

[ticndig]

I see splines too, and a screw hole. makes me think faucet stem .

or a lead anchor

 

[wamy22]

What metal is it made of? Looks like a lead plug.

I think it has to be lead because it’s so heavy, I don’t have a great metal detector but I do know it isn’t iron.

I see splines too, and a screw hole. makes me think faucet stem .

or a lead anchor

I am admittedly a beginner when it comes to this, but it just doesn’t look like it was machined, it’s just way too imperfect as far as the shape goes unless it was severely warped when it was broken off of whatever it was( if it was even broken off)

 

[cudamark]

Most lead can be scratched with your finger nail. If not, it could be a lead alloy/pot metal.