✅ SOLVED Brass? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[gdzag]

Found this in a city park here in Michigan...When I pulled it from the dirt it was completely green. Any help ID-ing this would be great!

 

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[releventchair]

Fist thought is a type of old hair curler.

 

[Marylanddetctr]

There from overhead wires or power lines, find them fairly often when hunting, brass and copper wire

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

There from overhead wires or power lines, find them fairly often when hunting, brass and copper wire

This is correct.

 

[trdking]

There from overhead wires or power lines, find them fairly often when hunting, brass and copper wire

Yes this is a tapered tensioner for the leader wire that supports the cable from pole to pole

 

[azdave]

Commonly called a "p clamp" in the telephone aerial construction world.....that one is designed specifically for the old two-pair dropwire.
I have dropped literally hundreds over the course of many years....they disappear into bushes, trees, yards, garbage, etc. so don't swing a detector under the pole lines I've worked unless you collect them

 

[Davers]

Found this in a city park here in Michigan...When I pulled it from the dirt it was completely green. Any help ID-ing this would be great!View attachment 1162866View attachment 1162868View attachment 1162870View attachment 1162878

Thanks for asking gdzag, & thanks for the answers .
I have dug Many of these over the Years & many do look Old (How many years have they been in use?)
Again COOL! One less piece out of the What is it Pile & into the Recycling Pile ...Def, Brass.W/Copper wire of course.
Davers

P.S. How did you get it so Clean?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/312832-odd-copper-thing-found-old-fairgrounds.html

 

[DiggerB]

Azdave,
You are an old phone guy too? I wish I had a nickel for every p clamp I have hung or dropped.

 

[gdzag]

Thanks to all of you... I knew I'd seen something like it before but just couldn't place it. Thanks again for all the help!

 

[gdzag]

Davers... I pretty much knew it wasn't worth much... I used Muriatic Acid and and wire brush. I'm not kicked out of the MDing Union am I?

Thanks for asking gdzag, & thanks for the answers .
I have dug Many of these over the Years & many do look Old (How many years have they been in use?)
Again COOL! One less piece out of the What is it Pile & into the Recycling Pile ...Def, Brass.W/Copper wire of course.
Davers

P.S. How did you get it so Clean?

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

We wont kick you out but dont forget to mark it as SOLVED

 

[Davers]

Davers... I pretty much knew it wasn't worth much... I used Muriatic Acid and and wire brush. I'm not kicked out of the MDing Union am I?

No.. Your still in.. Now you know not to put so much effort into those things .
I said it was brass but it looks like copper.. They might be copper & brass I need to 'scrape' the one I threw in the Brass pile yesterday.

J.I.C.- If you think a piece is really old or Cool looking It's my opinion & most collectors that You keep that Original Green patina on the piece.

Peace
Davers

 

[Davers]

We wont kick you out but dont forget to mark it as SOLVED

I assume it's simple but I always had issues changing titles .
Is there a special way to do this?

 

[Ant]

The instructions are in the first Stickied topic on this page:

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/369859-how-mark-your-what-solved-photo-tutorial.html

 

[Tnmountains]

Yes ,in thread tools you can mark it as solved. This feature was opened at members request.