50mm or 2" in diameter, 10mm or 3/8' thick, hole is also 10mm or 3/8". There is a wear mark around the hole, maybe 1/4 of a mm. There is a set of six. Originally from Stanley Tas, Dad was a boat owner/fisherman( now deceased so cant ask him). Would have to be 60 years old at least. Solid Brass, this one polished by me.
Not flow reducers to go inside rubber cooling hoses for the old inboard engine e.g. Blaxland "Pup"? Maybe used as an "eccentric" on a shaft that rotates to actuate a water cooling pump on the same/similar engine?
G'day Denis, you could be on the right track, Dad's first boat had a mongrel Lister, to drive a 30 footer. A late uncle also had a little inboard dinghy, maybe 14 foot .The motor was a "put put "style from recollection, so could have come from that. Thanks
Joda, all net weights were real lead " in the day" some cast poured " so they slipped along the bottom rope, sometime lazy man's and wrapped sheet lead. Sometimes accompanied by a lot of cursing when a lazy seal would rip the net to shreds, to get at the caught bait fish.
Jeff Rae, I did get lots of answers from my Dad and had him for 65 of his 87 years. These were just part of over 60 years of never chucking anything out. He lived in Tassie and we in Albury, so lot's of packup / garage sale, give away etc. These just surface from a forgotten box , stuff too good to leave behind.
Yep. but its great to use something of theirs on a regular basis. One daughter has the 1983 Datto one tonne ute, she still loves it at 45,000 km. We use a few drinking glasses everyday. Admire a timber beam from a 1920's sailing ship most days. etc.
