What is this?

[coleman10]

Found this awhile back in my pool. No idea how it got in there. Looks to be a plug of some sort with the offset piece at the top to lock it in, but to what? There’s nothing I have around the house that this would go to.

 

[3baygarage]

The bottom half looks corroded. Piece of pool ladder? Support cushion?

Pool vacuum? Lawn furniture? Chemical float?

 

[coleman10]

The bottom half looks corroded. Piece of pool ladder? Support cushion?

Pool vacuum? Lawn furniture? Chemical float?

Nope. Nothing to do with the pool. It may have been buried in the lawn. I think the lawn guys were around a day or two before I found it. It may have come off something they have or they dug it up somehow. Oddest thing.

 

[PCustoms]

Nope. Nothing to do with the pool.

You found it in the pool though?

I wonder if it's 2 unrelated things screwed together for some reason. Like the bottom piece was stuck inside something, and someone screwed the top piece on to get some grip to pull it out

 

[hobie18]

Cam-action and screw flat widener. Hmmm what could it be.
Expanding plug.
Did it smell of gasoline?

 

[PCustoms]

Ccam-action and screw flat widener. Hmmm what could it be.
Expanding plug.
Did it smell of gasoline?

It does look brass...

 

[Jay H 237]

I doubt that has anything to do with the pool. My guess is that it was something that fell in the lawn from their equipment or some other way and while mowing it got run over and flung into the pool.

 

[Youngandfree]

Dikfer

 

[driftpin]

Nothing to spend time trying to determine what it is, if you consider your grey matter to have a finite amount of computing power available.

It looks like a poorly-cobbled together plug for some indeterminate use. That 'phillips' screw is I believe a cheese-head screw, properly-named. It looks like one of those screws which has a square center and a philips X, pozidriv

I agree that it appears to be some sort of lash-up to act as a plug, maybe for some hole which has fluid behind it.

 

[Rc_Guy]

What’s the bottom look like? Reminds me of an expanding plug for a pool drain or skimmer drain.

 

[coleman10]

Cam-action and screw flat widener. Hmmm what could it be.
Expanding plug.
Did it smell of gasoline?

Yeah, when the top is swung around, it’s the exact size of the bottom. Looks to be inserted, then tighten it up, and the top will swing to the side and snug it up inside the hole. I keep saying I’m going to toss it into the trash, but I keep wondering what it’s for.

Did not smell of gas. I think it was in the yard for a long time and got flung into the pool, maybe by a mower.

Maybe I’ll try to clean it up and see if I can find any hidden markings on it.

 

[hobie18]

Sprinkler cap? From the landscapers? Used as a plug in their many gas containers.

 

[olytdi]

Space junk

 

[WE3ZS]

Could it be the locking unit from a 2 section pool net/brush/vacuum head extending pole, The knurled section would be pressed into the end of the smaller diameter pole tube and the larger would be inside the larger pole tube. When twisted one way it would tighten and bind to lock the pole at that length, twist the other way and it would align and allow the telescopic pole to extend or contract.

 

[b.lucky]

Dikfer

What’s a…hey wait a minute

 

[hans109h]

Does your pump have a skimmer basket with a lid? Looks like a hold down on a version I've seen before. Check to see if lid is secure.

Hans

 

[johnre]

Reminds me of part of one of these:

 

[txvwnut]

Dikfer

Henway

 

[CN Spots]

I'm going to go through my stash and start building **** like this and just toss them in random people's back yards just to keep threads like these going after I'm gone.

 

[egdede]

Could it be the locking unit from a 2 section pool net/brush/vacuum head extending pole, The knurled section would be pressed into the end of the smaller diameter pole tube and the larger would be inside the larger pole tube. When twisted one way it would tighten and bind to lock the pole at that length, twist the other way and it would align and allow the telescopic pole to extend or contract.

me of part of one of these:

I think W3EZS is right. And that part looks like an internal pipe wrench like Johnre said.

(I still can't figure out the multi quote : )