This one is driving me crazy. Help me

[Burdie]

What is this off of a car, wagon, or what? In my mind I have seen this object before. Any ideas appreciated. It is the top picture I am interested in the most. I know the place I found this object was active in the 1880's till 1930's. It is 5 inches long but is broken on the left side.

 

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[DigEmAll]

Funny that you should mention trains.... I was also thinking that it looked like something from a train. It looks like a remote valve actuator. A mechinism that transfers a pulling motion from a rope, cable, or chain into a pushing motion. Like the type you would see on the steam whistle.

 

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[Burdie]

By golly I think you got it!!!!! I looked at this object and it looked so familiar. I thought it was old so I couldn't reason why it would be something I would have seen before. This summer I was at the Kansas State Historical Museum. They have a train inside and these children were pulling this rope and the mechanism was rocking on a cylinder that released the steam. I know now where I saw that image. Thanks!! Burdie

 

[diggemall]

If that's the lever from a steam whistle, the large holes would have to be the pivot - they seem a tad large to be practical for that purpose.

There's pix of few steam whistles here: http://www.multipowerinternational.com/steamwhistle.html

Can't offer a better suggestion though, either.

Diggem'

 

[lordmarcovan]

Eureka! After weeks of intensive and exhausting research, I think I have finally figured it out!

It is the petrified skeleton of a Gallus Elasticus!

 

[Michelle]

Eureka! After weeks of intensive and exhausting research, I think I have finally figured it out!

It is the petrified skeleton of a Gallus Elasticus!

dino fossil

 

[EDDE]

bottom half of a bike seat

 

[danger831]

remides me of a shaft mounted rocker arm off an engine or old compressor valve train.

 

[Michelle]

bottom half of a bike seat

8)

 

[TreasureTales]

Hmmm, reminds me of an old cast iron flag mount. The one photo seemed to have some "stops" or projections so the flag staff couldn't slip through. Dunno. I'd rather find something weird like that than find a silver dime. But I'm kinda strange myself.

 

[hollowpointred]

bottom half of a bike seat

yup, or the springs from the bottom of a tractors seat pan.