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What is this wooden propeller ...thing?

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by SeaGoat, Apr 8, 2016.

  1. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    It is placed in a material to take its form, removed and a casting is made from the void left by it.
    Or.. It is copied by machining it from a block of whatever.
     
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  2. SeaGoat

    SeaGoat Well-Known Member

    The blades are just so thick for it to be creating the void, i just don't know what it would be used for.

    I even asked at work and they had no idea out side of a mold
     
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  3. verybrad

    verybrad Well-Known Member

    Agree with the others that it is an industrial model for casting.
     
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  4. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    It could simply be a sample.
     
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  5. springfld.arsenal

    springfld.arsenal Store: http://www.springfieldarsenal.net/

    Thanks for the size info. I kind of ruled out any kind of air movement because the blade contour isn't good for that. I think it is a pattern for casting steel or aluminum agitators for use in mixing or stirring low-viscosity fluids when positioned at the bottom of a 500-gallon or so vat. Say in a paint or liquid soap factory.

    No doubt at all it is a casting pattern, that metal "A-9" tag comes out of a machine all pattern shops use, kind of like one of those Dymo label makers, but on steroids.
     
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  6. TheOLdGuy

    TheOLdGuy Well-Known Member

    Do you have a ruler handy? Maybe you could measure from elbow to wrist. :rolleyes::dead::D

    Mine's only ten.
     
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  7. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    Komo, yours has shape and taper to it....SeaGoat's example does not.....I tend to think for more like a whirlagig.....although as previously mentioned we do not know the size.....?????
     
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  8. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    THAT'S a good thought!!!!!!!
     
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  9. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    It's all about that A-9 tag........
    Without that...maybe....
    ~
    BUT..... Could be a template for making peddle car props BUT...aren't those usually 2 bladed and stamped metal?
    I have seen home builts but even those were 2 blades.
     
  10. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Yes...it looks like a finished product ....but so far , with all the speculation , the thing I found is the closest looking to what the OP posted.......whatever it is !
     
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