where's this come from? Outboard ?

[VicS]

Picked a tobacco tin up off the bench to hold small bits of what I was working on.

Inside the tin was this tiny fibre washer. Its obviously been left off something else ...... but what?

 

[seadog30]

Hi

Did you take the carb off ?, it looks like the fibre washers used on the jets.

Good luck

 

[prv]

Looks like a standard fibre washer - could be off almost anything.

Pete

 

[Spyro]

Did the carb bowl have a drain screw on the bottom? Could have been from that

 

[VicS]

Mystery solved, I think

Years ago I was cleaning the Bing carb on an old outboard.

I thought I had lost a washer so a found one to replace it.

Then discovered that the old one had stayed down the hole, whereas previously it had always come out with the jet.

I must have left the potential replacement in the baccy tin

 

[Thistle]

Proof, if proof were needed, that to really confuse someone who has an engine in bits you don't take a bit away, you put an extra bit into the pile.

A bit like lobbing a shackle pin onto the deck of a boat you are racing against. They spend so much time and energy looking for where it has come from that they lose sight of the race and fall behind.