What is this??

[ALABEAR]

Dug this yesterday. It is Brass and weight is 5#. Thanks

 

[NGE]

What type of area did ya dig it, field, CW site, skirmish area, etc etc. May be cannon ball fuze......NGE

 

[seger98]

 

[cal-hunter]

Fitting for a drilling rig?

 

[ALABEAR]

What type of area did ya dig it, field, CW site, skirmish area, etc etc. May be cannon ball fuze......NGE

Dug it in a field where I found Civil War bullets and an US belt buckle and part of a officers buckle, but there is some stuff from the 1920's through the 1940's trash at this one spot.

 

[Monty]

Looks like some kind of pipe connection to me, but that's just a WAG. Monty

 

[Harry_Morant]

If Monty can have a WAG then so will I - a piece of a trunnion or adjustment for a cannon

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I have no idea what it is but the inside view looks like that of a piston. It looks as if it may swivel on a wrist pin. It almost looks as if a connecting rod has broken the bottom skirt on both sides.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Its seems to just be one of those thingamajiggies. 5 pounds? that must of sucked toting that one around! lol

 

[greengorilla]

looks like an old well pump valve (leather packing goes between this part and the next section it screws into) but this is just a EWAG.

 

[Blacksheep]

I have no idea what it is but the inside view looks like that of a piston. It looks as if it may swivel on a wrist pin. It almost looks as if a connecting rod has broken the bottom skirt on both sides.

Good reasoning but missing an important component, seal rings. My guess is the area you thought would be a swivel (wrist pin) is actually a bolstered area designed for a tool/pipe/rod. To install/remove this "cap" without damage.

I first thought some type of piston as well.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I have no idea what it is but the inside view looks like that of a piston. It looks as if it may swivel on a wrist pin. It almost looks as if a connecting rod has broken the bottom skirt on both sides.

Good reasoning but missing an important component, seal rings. My guess is the area you thought would be a swivel (wrist pin) is actually a bolstered area designed for a tool/pipe/rod. To install/remove this "cap" without damage.

I first thought some type of piston as well.

I dont believe its a piston because of the lack of rings amongst other things. I only meant to state that the bottom view sure looks like one. The bottom skirt is also flared out and broken in 2 places as if made by the connecting rod. I have absolutely no idea what it could be.

 

[crazyjarhead]

Not a piston with threads on top like that one. A piston would not be made of heavy meterial either. I was thinking the same at first, but

 

[thepoolguy]

definitely a piston...and yes it looks like the connecting rod hit each side as though it was ran while not in its sleeve. old orchard sprayers used simular types with rubber screwed on the top to make the seal. some ran in ceramic sleeves and the rubber went down the sides so the brass would not touch the ceramic. i tried googling "john bean sprayers" but could not find any good pics. but......still just a wag.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I have changed my mind. If it looks like a piston, then it probably is. Yes the rubber or leather seal could have screwed on the top. As far as being made of brass almost everything old was. Aluminum was very expensive.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

early piston for a steam engine?

 

[donny_n_mo]

Could it be a end that fit on a hydraulic cylinder?

 

[dozer dan]

what ever it was, it was hammered on pretty hard. if i can have a wag of my own,
I'm thinking part of a pyle or pile driver (how ever its spelled). maybe even for driving well casing pipe.