Have a mystery piece

[bbheigle0605]

Managed to get out and detect for a few hours today and did some good! However, I'm having issues identifying one of the pieces. Does anyone have a clue as to what this is? Thanks again

 

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[FreeBirdTim]

Looks like the part that holds down a spare tire in the trunk to keep it from moving around.

 

[WIchuck]

Managed to get out and detect for a few hours today and did some good! However, I'm having issues identifying one of the pieces. Does anyone have a clue as to what this is? Thanks again

I had something like this but it had screw end of a light bulb attached to it. Maybe an old fixture lamp part. Good luck

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[bbheigle0605]

Thanks! Will look that up. The area I'm searching is a store/saloon of a extinct MS River town. The town was washed away from a major flood before electricity made it to them. Finding coins of the 1800's in the same spot. Doesn't mean someone didn't throw their modern junk there neither. Dunno....

 

[QUICKSILVER (appletree)]

looks like an armature to me.

 

[Hot zone]

I have seen this and I know you don't want to here this but I recognize it as a rusty hunk of junk...

 

[reale bill]

Looks like the impeller from a sump pump.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Gas lamp? Or it looks like something that turns? Spinning toy or top?

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Still going with a spare tire hold down setup. It's backwards, though. The concave side sets into the spare tire hub hole with the "armature" type screw on top. The bottom bolt head slides into a groove on the trunk floor. When you tighten up the armature type screw, it pulls everything together and locks the tire into place.

 

[DCMatt]

Still going with a spare tire hold down setup. It's backwards, though. The concave side sets into the spare tire hub hole with the "armature" type screw on top. The bottom bolt head slides into a groove on the trunk floor. When you tighten up the armature type screw, it pulls everything together and locks the tire into place.

Is it backwards for a truck spare that hangs underneath?

 

[FreeBirdTim]

It looks kind of wimpy to support a truck spare tire. Most under truck spare tires have a cranking mechanism to lower them down.

 

[longcut]

I could not find the exact example , but it could be the bottom and bolt down for the air breather / filter from an old engine ...... the thing that sits on top of the carburetor ..............

 

[oooldman]

it quite passably was used to clean car parts, part cleaner came in buckets and this was where you would stack the parts to be cleaned. You would agitate the chemicals by liftin up and down on the star shaped handle the bottom had the center stand to allow the sludge a place to go. Some other types had a shallow screen bucket ghat the parts were placed in.