any idea?

[rickbrk]

Any guess what this could be. It's about 7" tall weighs about 8-10lbs. Square hole all the way though it that is about 1 1/4" square. Writing on front says: W-18

 

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[bigfoot1]

just a guess...a part of a stop and waste valve.hole would be for locking it

 

[nhbenz]

It's a lock... BigCypress ID'ed one here recently... Hold on.

 

[rickbrk]

Well, there are no threads or moving parts. It is one piece of cast iron. This was found in a place that is yielding items from the 1920's to 1940's. I should have put these details in the first post. Sorry.

 

[nhbenz]

I should have said "part of a lock"... But now of course I can't find the thread from the recent one... Second guessing myself a bit... Maybe it was Mojjax who ID'd one. And, as always, I may be wrong.

 

[GMD52]

Looking at the square hole and the rounded part of the casting I believe it's the part of an old water pump that attached directly to the well or spring pipe. I can remember when the only running water in my grandparents house was one of these pumps attached to the dug well that was underneath the kitchen floor.

 

[nhbenz]

Sorry, scrap my previous idea, I found the link I was thinking of and it wasn't the same thing.
An old well pump casing could be right... I'll look around and see if I can actually be of some help

 

[rickbrk]

Thanks for the help. A pump part sounds promising. I'm in Texas so maybe it could even be off of a small oil well grasshopper pump.

 

[kadookid]

It looks real similar to the disk blade spacers used on a horse drawn disk most of them had a square hole.