🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Found in a Tide Pool

[FTGINC]

I am looking for someone to identify what this large object is that I found about 100 feet off the beach in some rocks at a super low tide along the Central Coast of California.

 

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[luke_00]

Looks like a flywheel from an old hit-and-miss engine

 

[FTGINC]

Looks like a flywheel from an old hit-and-miss engine

luke_00, do you think it could be from a steam engine?

 

[cudamark]

Belt drive pulley?

 

[Bucket Lister]

Brake drum?

 

[luke_00]

luke_00, do you think it could be from a steam engine?

Very possible, either flywheel or belt pulley (as cudamark suggested) from an old engine, whether it be steam or hit-n-miss, both have similar components.

 

[robertk]

Early base for a beach umbrella?

 

[FTGINC]

I ask as there was a Steam ship that sank right offshore in the mid 1800's.

 

[Tony in SC]

I'm thinking brake drum from a heavy wrench probably from a boat. Too small and lite for a hit miss flywheel .

Brake drum?

 

[Bucket Lister]

I ask as there was a Steam ship that sank right offshore in the mid 1800's.

Does equipment on steamships have brakes? IDK.
I'm thinking like a winch, crane, other motors...

What's nagging at me is where you found it. I spoze it could as easily be from an old car or truck.

 

[Almy]

A shaft going through the central hole would be small diameter, much smaller than used in heavy equipment like flywheels or winch drums, I think.