What is it?

Hello Waldig, and welcome to the 'pond'. Great, fast answer.

I hope we see you around often.

Kind regards ...

I do not recognize this object so I can only offer speculations. My initial speculation hang on the idea that this is some kind of a weight, possibly for drapery but not a calibrated weight. By having a D hole instead of a circular hole and the direction of an arrow, what ever this is it has a alignment characteristic. I also think the corrosion happening on only one side as a clue. Possibly this is a support washer that rested against a flat surface on the beveled side. It looks like a locking clip washer held it onto the D shaped post. Maybe this is an alignment washer of a brake assembly.

Well that's my guess.

Good Luck

A weight for a throw net?

I was thinking almost the same thing.

http://www.swiftys-fishing-tackle.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/7619

Boy, that's it! I vote a GA for waldig.

Strange... this is the second GA I voted for this new member in the last three minutes. Well done!

Agreed!

Waldig has it, but Netmaker also gets a GA for the link with photo.

Yes, waldig is right on - but depending on your grandson's age, you might want to convince him that he found a rare Spanish dabloon from a hidden treasure chest. It can be your little secret between yourselves for a year or two, until he learns about car parts. - Heck; when he finds out what it really is, after hoarding the "valuable booty" carefully away for a while - he may actually take an interest in mechanics.

^{0r maybe the complete opposite}

Did you jack your own vehicle up, just to take that pick, for this thread? Good job!

Ha ha ha, it was kind of tongue in cheek. Sorry, it's Monday and there's not much to do here at work.

I was poking a little fun

S'O'Kay. LynLynch needs his fun poked now and then.

While cleaning out my uncle's tool box, I found a half dozen of these. I had figured it was some sort of shim. Interesting to finally find out what they are.

I'm now curious as to what the BAE stamp is, as the parts from the tool box also had the same letters stamped into them.

On an interesting side note, my uncle was an auto mechanic in his early years; was trained during WWII on airplane engines. Got to test run some of the army's first jet engines. But the really interesting coincidence is that when he retired, one of his hobbies was making nets!

BAE is in fact SAE which means Society of Automotive Engineers.