Part of a tool?

[HillBilly244]

I found this at an 1800's? permission last week and can't figure out what it's off of? Looks like piece off a tool or something. Any ideas?

 

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[villagenut]

Looks like it may have gear type threads in the center.....

 

[longcut]

gear type threads in the middle resemble modern day adjustable wrench adjuster ... they are slanted also ...

 

[Joe-Dirt]

It looks like it should have some king of adjustable collar on it

 

[CaptEsteban]

gear type threads in the middle resemble modern day adjustable wrench adjuster ... they are slanted also ...

eminds me of that, too.

 

[buck8point]

Most Adjustable or "Crescent type Wrenches" have a screw thats really a small shaft that goes thru the adjustment knob that has a cut on one end to use a flat bladed screw driver and a thread on the other to hold it in.
For some reason this looks like to me the center focus adjustment post on an old pair of either opera glasses or binoculars and the adjustment knob would go over the threads to adjust the focus?

 

[vhs07]

My first thought was an early microscope or telescope focus assembly that would have had focus knobs on the two ends, but then I realized the threads went the wrong way.

 

[bradyboy]

looks like lead?

 

[HillBilly244]

It's copper or brass

 

[Oddjob]

adjustable F wrench gear

 

[HillBilly244]

No, it's not from a wrench. If you take a wrench apart they look nothing like that

 

[nhbenz]

Maybe the axle from a toy car or similar? Maybe had rubber wheels on each side that disintegrated?

 

[Oddjob]

No, it's not from a wrench. If you take a wrench apart they look nothing like that

Yeah, you can check my history on here, never been any good at these things, and always get it wrong. Dude could have shown a quarter and I would have missed it. LOL

Makee you wonder what sort of good junk I haave thrown away.

 

[DCMatt]

part of an electric fan oscillator?

 

[HillBilly244]

part of an electric fan oscillator?

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Could be. I guess we might never know for sure,lol

 

[buck8point]

Any chance we could get see more angles, and the ends.
is there any markings at all on it?

 

[Bruce R]

It looks like part of a worm and wheel adjuster from an old transit or some other delicate mechanism that requires a fine adjustment.

 

[Bruce R]

 

[Roger Mn.]

It looks like the shutoff valve of an old faucet . It would have a hole in each end for a screw.
If no holes than something else.

 

[HillBilly244]

No holes, I'll post more pics