Steel Wheel?

[doctorbb]

Have no idea what this is. It is made of some heavy metal but it's not rusty. Feels too hard to be brass, too light for lead, too clean to be iron. it was found about 3" deep in a park. It shows some pitting from corrosion but not rust. Thought it might be a wheel from an old toy but there's no center hub. It's 2-1/4" in diameter and about 3/8" thick. Anyone ever seen something like this?

 

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[PBK]

Looks like the wheel from a toy gyroscope (top).

 

[kenb]

Reply time, 4 minutes 48 seconds. PBK you are the MAN!

kenb

 

[doctorbb]

WOW! Thanks for the response.

 

[Montana Jim]

Holy crap...

 

[Thomas007]

That fast response knocked me off balance

Sanat

 

[watercolor]

Reply time, 4 minutes 48 seconds. PBK you are the MAN!

kenb

(He must have been tied-up on the phone for 3-minutes before he could hit the "Post" button on his computer )

Doctor, that is a cool find though. . . I haven't seen a gyroscope wheel like that since the 1960"s.

 

[999slvrfx]

I had a couple of those when I was a kid about 50 years ago.

 

[Ramitt]

Ok that is just ridiculous, PBK must be cheating somehow.

 

[IndianaSmith]

I had a couple of those when I was a kid about 50 years ago.

Ditto, kept it right next to my Slinky......though not quite that long ago.

Smitty

 

[SgtSki in MI]

And PBK nails it again!!!!

I used to have one of these too. But mine and all of the other ones I've seen have had a different spoke pattern than this one so it's something new to see. They still make 'em too. If I remember right the correct "scientific" name for this is a Chandler Gyroscope.

Cool Find!!!

-SgtSki

 

[geo4472]

wow that fast response time got me spinning

 

[Bluezman]

I had a couple of those when I was a kid about 50 years ago.

I was going to say that!
You know, we probably went to different schools together.
Bluezman

 

[Tabfry]

PBK... Where...how...when....
Nevermind- Great work!