onamission said:
Think what you may......however I didn't make up the picture I posted. As a kid in Michigan I helped my uncle on wrench on farm tractors and old cars....and I do remember a mechanical starter in old tractors it was very similar to the one posted. There was a little knob that you pulled the solenoid pushed the electric starter gear forward till it contacted the flywheel. I was just trying to help and will back tho.
Tom
No one is saying you are wrong, you could be right, but your pic. doesn't have spiral gears on the rear of the
pointed shaped plunger.
Also the thing could be a control valve for air controlled machinery as well as hydraulics, such as are used
in industrail machinery to manufactor most anything.
It could also be a part used in hydraulics that controls the fluid or air as used in lifting equiptment, one example
Hydraulic jacks, or air driven jacks, or hydraulics that lift buckets on front end loaders, you get the drift,
there are many possibilities. Unless someone has repaired or replaced such a component that the object is used for, we can only guess. Your guess seems as good as any unless someone can prove otherwise.
Have a good weekend and as always,
HH
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