Golfer loses head, somebody else lost a whatsit

[jsandin]

An hour in a suburban park yielded the attached.

Cruddy zinc penny, washer, 11-iron golf club head, toy wheel, and a fitting made of what appears to be blue-anodized aluminum. One end is sealed with a cylindrical cap. I removed about 1 TB of gunk that looked and smelled like pipe sealing compound from this thing.

Is it a safety valve of some kind, designed to pop under pressure?

Also....what are golf irons generally made of? It seemed so heavy when I found it, at first I thought it was lead, then brass, but now I'm thinking it's pot metal.

At least the weather was good.

 

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[dozer dan]

bottom left: hydraulic hose fitting.

bottom right: common machine washer

 

[Monty]

Golf clubs now days are made of all kinds of exotic metals, but the one pictured is probably some alloy of steel. They may be hollowed and filled with lead to add the proper weight. An 11 iron is kinda' rare, and would commonly be called a pitching wedge, or at least have a very open face angle to the shaft. The fitting is a hydraulic hose connection as someone else has said. Don't know what that other object is? Not the penny, the other gizmo! Monty

 

[Tony in SC]

The hydraulic fitting is a compression to flare adapter. The wheel looks it came from a toy wind-up train. Tony

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Top left- Northwestern Golf Co. iron

Bottom left- lightweight blue aluminum flare fitting with a flare nut for hydraulic hose often used on aircraft.

Bottom right- steel washer

Top right- can you clean it and post another pic?

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

Not sure of the size of that little wheel - does it seem to have bearings?

We used to build skateboards (long ago, when they first came out), with similar looking wheels.

 

[savant365]

The little wheel looking thing looks like it came out of a sprinkler head.

 

[jsandin]

Top left- Northwestern Golf Co. iron

Bottom left- lightweight blue aluminum flare fitting with a flare nut for hydraulic hose often used on aircraft.


Bottom right- steel washer

Top right- can you clean it and post another pic?

That's as clean as I could get it. What looks like mud is actually melted plastic. I see spokes on the wheel. My theory is that some creative child staged a bad toy motorcycle accident. Kind of like what I used to do with my chemistry supplies, for instance: Making slow-burn gunpowder and melting Hot Wheels cars that today are worth $180, etc.

I think the wheel is made of zinc, or some other brittle gray metal.

Thanks for the picture. That's what the finish on the fitting looks like, although it doesn't show up well in the photo.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

green check?

 

[dozer dan]

QUOTE[ My theory is that some creative child staged a bad toy motorcycle accident. Kind of like what I used to do with my chemistry supplies, for instance: Making slow-burn gunpowder and melting Hot Wheels cars that today are worth $180, etc.

i have found a lot of melted toys and other relics around where people dumped their burn barrels.

it wasn't that long ago that there were a lot of people burning their household trash on a daily basis.

 

[jsandin]

it wasn't that long ago that there were a lot of people burning their household trash on a daily basis.

That's a smell that takes me back to childhood. I rarely smell it anymore.