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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #30 on: May 03, 2013, 05:12:31 pm »
I'm waaaaaaiiiiiiiiiitt ttttttttttiiiiiiiin nnnnnnggggggggggg.. .......... ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #31 on: May 03, 2013, 06:29:21 pm »
It has 12 slots/spokes ;)


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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #32 on: May 03, 2013, 06:45:23 pm »
It has 12 slots/spokes ;)


even better...that puts paid to cogars...grist mill pulley wheel.... ;D..now look at these...i,m determined not to be eating ghopper,s kacks.. ;D

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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #34 on: May 03, 2013, 07:17:39 pm »
It has 12 slots/spokes ;)


even better...that puts paid to cogars...grist mill pulley wheel.... ;D..now look at these...i,m determined not to be eating ghopper,s kacks.. ;D

Gettin warm!
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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #35 on: May 03, 2013, 07:22:11 pm »
It has 12 slots/spokes ;)


even better...that puts paid to cogars...grist mill pulley wheel.... ;D..now look at these...i,m determined not to be eating ghopper,s kacks.. ;D

Gettin warm!
 ;)
What do you mean getting Warm....any hotter and the bloody thing,ll be melting... ;D
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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #36 on: May 03, 2013, 07:34:56 pm »
It has 12 slots/spokes ;)


even better...that puts paid to cogars...grist mill pulley wheel.... ;D..now look at these...i,m determined not to be eating ghopper,s kacks.. ;D

Gettin warm!
 ;)
What do you mean getting Warm....any hotter and the bloody thing,ll be melting... ;D

haha.  :D
We're hot when I figure out the company to find out what kind of wagon...firearms wagon? agriculture? travel? etc ;)

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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #37 on: May 03, 2013, 08:22:05 pm »
I'll vote for the beer wagon , on this item ...

A 12-spoked repro of an original one , in the image below .
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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #38 on: May 04, 2013, 03:15:39 am »
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...if it was a mill wheel hub, it would have had a bearing...

The 2nd photo shows it having a bearing race ..... at least on 1 end of the shaft hole.
A but your mill wheels have only got 6 spookes....this ones got at least 8 ..maybe 10

A Ford Model A had 12, and so did many wagon wheels .......

And this mill wheel has .......



And this this cannon carriage wheel has .....




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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #39 on: May 04, 2013, 04:13:08 am »
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even better...that puts paid to cogars...grist mill pulley wheel.... ..now look at these...i,m determined not to be eating ghopper,s kacks..


Now Wuffie, there were grist mill water wheels, and grist mill grinding wheels, ...... and all kinds of grist mill wheels and shafts in between those two.

Now we all know it is a wheel hub but the question is, for what purpose was it to be used for that prompted the foundry to make the sand mold and cast it in iron.    

That is a big hunk of cast iron and thus apparently made for a big, heavy duty, piece of equipment.

Now the date on that hub was the era when fortunes were being made and there were literally thousands of these "thingys" being built for gas and oil wells and parts were needed to build them with, .... to wit:



And I'm not stating a fact that the pictured hub was built for the drilling industry, but it might have been.

cheers 
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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #40 on: May 04, 2013, 06:19:16 am »
you,ve been too wit.ing...too many times...time for you too woo one of these... ;D...and we both know that we,re never going to agree on what it is,nt

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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #41 on: May 04, 2013, 12:06:43 pm »
What part of the country are you in?
I'm from the South - but please don't mistake my Southern Manners/Accent/Charm as a weakness!

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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #42 on: May 04, 2013, 12:13:17 pm »
What part of the country are you in?


I'm in the Northeast (ny)



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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #43 on: May 04, 2013, 12:23:11 pm »
What part of the country are you in?


I'm in the Northeast (ny)



Thats Aberdeen where i come from... ;D
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Re: What is this? (Heavy Cast Iron, marked "A.R.M. Co. 1886")
« Reply #44 on: May 05, 2013, 03:18:10 am »