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a birth control device or a cigar cutter??

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

thought i'd nip a smart mouthed reply in the bud... if it was a birth control device.... it's not my size, it's to big compared to the quarter!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

A helmet for Gumby??

Mudge the intellectual

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I can't believe y'all don't know what it is, it's a thing-a-ma-bobber to go on a whatch-a-callit.

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um...flux capacitator?

Some kind of mini heater?Looks like some kind of insulator with heat coils.

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a quarter?

But seriously, looks sort of like a locking button switch, probably like from a control panel. Just a guess.

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Not sure, but it reminds me of a housing for an early voltage protection
devise. They were made from non-conducting material.
The hole in the side would be where the actual carbon block or
coil protection screwed in. The unit would be plugged into a panel or frame of
some sort that the circuit would pass through. If voltage exceeded a
certain level this would fail and protect the circuit and equipment.
Think of this as a fuse holder. For the younger crowd, a surge protector.

Or, it could be, as Craig said, a thing-a-ma-bobber to go on a whatch-a-callit

Bill

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Kind of reminds me of the voltage regulator on my '66 Dodge!?
Or maybe some sort of hydraulic valve.............................or not.

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What is this???

It looks like suspiciously like a coin of some type to me, I dont fully recognise the white thing-abob next to the coin so I cannot judge how big this coin is, but it clearly seems to have the words "United States of America" and "Quarter Dollar" written on the coin so I would guess it may be a US 25 cent piece?, I would have thought someone from the States should be able to identify it, and being from Australia I cannot provide any further identification.

As to the white thing being used to size the coin, that is clearly and instantly recognisable as a thing-a-ma-bobber to go on a whatch-a-callit, as already confirmed by earlier posts, and similar looking devices are used for similar purposes downu nder as well.

(and yes it does look like some type of small jug heater coil or element)

smiles

Mark Pilkington

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Thats easy, A ching-a-derra

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It looks like part of some early proximity/contact switch for door warning.