Some kind of screw-in...thing?

[chaunton]

(First time on the forums, by the way. I thought I'd start with a micro-mystery.)

Not much to it. As you can see, it's quite small - no markings. It's threaded, but just a couple revolutions. It's nonmagnetic and fairly heavy for its size.

At any rate. I can't quite place what it would have been. Any ideas?

(Update: I reoriented the picture because some computers weren't displaying it properly.)

 

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[bradyboy]

need a pic of the whole thing - its cut off in the image

 

[mojjax]

I'm thinking .... part of a faucet stem thing ?

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[george7737]

electric post for telegraph , battery

 

[kierdan]

seems a little odd to me that it is hex shaped like it should be turned tight with a wrench, but only has two threads on it.

 

[ivan salis]

screw in battery terminal? hex head allows for tightening --untightening

 

[Scott (Mich)]

Ever put together any Sauder cabinets? The kind where the wood is made from compressed sawdust? This looks like one of the lock in pieces you use when you join two wood pieces together. The other piece is a round disk shape that has a screwdriver slot, once joined you turn the disk a half of a turn and it locks into the piece you show.

Just my guess.

HH,

Scott (MI)

 

[Montana Jim]

need a pic of the whole thing - its cut off in the image

It's all there...

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[savant365]

It looks like a blunt arrow tip for small game.

 

[lostcauses]

old style shoe cleat, or a fitting for a snap on canvas cover.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

It is not a faucet stem. (i do plumbing work)
It is not a blunt arrow tip. (it wont fit my arrows)
...threads wrong.


Is it brass? Im thinking electrical if brass.

Where did u find it?

 

[chaunton]

bigcypresshunter: I'm pretty sure it is brass. It was found in a front yard in Omaha, Nebraska. Coins from that hunt went back to the mid 1940s. (The neighborhood would have been urban during all of that time.)

SWR: I think may have it! (But...I don't know what a "stereo rack leg standoff" is.)