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Do you have things laying around and wonder what could it be turned into?  I'm lucky, because my wifey brings me home all sorts of things to work with.  Here is a place to post and see if others have some great ideas.  Here we go.

It turns real easy and the wood pulley is on a square drive.  It makes me think of something R Ranson would use to turn fiber into something useful.  Any body have a good Idea?
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Being a knife/axe sharpening nut, I want to mount an abrasive surface on the wheel and get to work.

I'll need someone's kids to turn the handle though.
 
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What was it made for? It seems to have no way to do anything. I suppose it could run something off a belt...
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I'm thinking that it probably had something to do with spinning ,string, yarn ?  
Someone took some time to make this, they had a good use for it.

I like Douglas's thoughts about a knife sharpener.
Definitely the hand crank would need to be changed to a foot feed.


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Any pulley driven something.  Turning either a v groove or a half round ground to drive some other device.  This pulley will work as booth a pulley and a flywheel.

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Brand mystic runes on the side of the wheel and then sell it to Madame X for big money. Wheel! Of! Fortune! Even better if you can come up with a 17th century ghost story lineage, to add "credibility."
 
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I actually feel this was several items put together to make something someone needed.

The step stool looks older than the wheel.  The frame looks to be the newest piece.

Whatever this was used for it looks like a nice piece of history.

My guess would be that it was used for something like a belt sander.

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I really like the sander/sharpener idea.  I was thinking about a generator demo.  All them screws could hold a magnet.  I little coil and I bet we could make enough to light a light bulb. Maybe dual purpose, light a light to shine where you sharpen.  I'll try to post some more what could this week.  Thank you all for the thoughts.

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That's a very cool object. I can tell you it was not used for spinning yarn; the bar over it would just get in the way, and you would need several more pieces, like a bobbin and all its attached parts, to get any use for that purpose from the wheel. Maybe use it to pull a bucket out of a well? Or supplies up a steep cliff?
 
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