WW2 Air Base junk or....

[aa battery]

is this thing worth keeping.Its 6 in. at its widest part and looks like it latched to something. My only thought was maybe it came off a cultivator...aa

 

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[aa battery]

The flip side

 

[Ken from Atlanta]

It looks like a plow blade to me.

 

[Monty]

Is it aluminum or steel? If it is aluminum it could be a step cover on the side of an airplane. They were hinged so the pilot or crew could stick their foot in for a foothold to climb up into the air plane. And when they took their foot out it was spring loaded so it closed making it aerodynamic. Monty

 

[CRUSADER]

no

 

[aa battery]

No its steel maybe a plow blade.

 

[doublet2a]

All most looks like one of those fold-up shovels, with out the handle


Tim

 

[aa battery]

2a thats what my daughter said but i cant find a photo to match it. All the photos i found for WW2 were fixed handles.

 

[Montana Jim]

aa - It looks just like some kinda crappy old flapper cover for a stack or lawn mower or something... to me anyways. I don't have much of an imagination though.

 

[aa battery]

Flap on flap off?

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Pretty worn and upside down in the picture. To me it looks like it is the slat from a farm elevator. They come in various sizes and are usually rectangular. I have never seen one as worn down as yours. If I was home I would run outside by the barn and post a picture of the whole elevator so you could see the whole chain with slats.

The rectangular chain link hooked to the slat is a type of chain that I have fixed many-a-time in the past. I cannot see from the picture, but there should be a slot in the link where the next link would fit in - kind of like the letter C in a side profile. You have to turn the links 90 degrees to each other to slide them together. That is so they do not come apart when they are aligned straight.

HH,

Scott (MI)