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Insulator??? Packard Belle - 6/28/2008 10:17:22 PM    carling   Posts: 370 Joined: 9/30/2006 Status: offline Can anyone tell me anything about this thing?  Some kind of insulator?  Had no luck Googling..... Thanks!.....Rick Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Insulator??? Packard Belle - 6/28/2008 10:18:38 PM    carling   Posts: 370 Joined: 9/30/2006 Status: offline side view......Forgot to add that its about 3.5 inches high Attachment (1) (in reply to carling) Post #: 2

RE: Insulator??? Packard Belle - 6/28/2008 10:19:22 PM    carling   Posts: 370 Joined: 9/30/2006 Status: offline bottom.... Attachment (1) (in reply to carling) Post #: 3

RE: Insulator??? Packard Belle - 6/28/2008 10:22:15 PM    cobaltbot Posts: 1611 Joined: 4/7/2006 From: Delta, PA Status: offline A quess: used by Bell Telephone somehow, nice find, purty and practical! _____________________________ My tombstone will read: He went out for a walk and never came back.... (in reply to carling) Post #: 4

RE: Insulator??? Packard Belle - 6/28/2008 11:39:36 PM    steveinlanc   Posts: 40 Joined: 2/11/2006 Status: offline I'd have to ask you to open it to be sure, but it looks to me to be a transformer in a porcelain casing. Most likely to operate a low voltage bell or chime. _____________________________ "A journey of a thousand miles is postponed due to gas prices" (in reply to cobaltbot) Post #: 5

RE: Insulator??? Packard Belle - 6/28/2008 11:45:28 PM    capsoda Posts: 7718 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Steve is prolly right. I saw one in the DeFuniak Springs Fire House when I was a kid. It was hooked to the fire bell. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to steveinlanc) Post #: 6

RE: Insulator??? Packard Belle - 6/28/2008 11:55:26 PM    bombboy Posts: 53 Joined: 3/2/2008 From: Upstate NY Status: offline You are all right, a small transformer used primarily for low voltage transfer. Up here in the sticks I've seen many in the cellars that were used for telephone lines. Most were white, blue being seen the least. Neat converstion piece, I saved a few. Mark (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 7

RE: Insulator??? Packard Belle - 6/29/2008 9:13:01 PM    Brains   Posts: 482 Joined: 9/2/2006 From: Hilliard/columbus ohio Status: offline it's a telephone realated item, fuse or somthing.  Nice find, i never find any of those.  Might actually be a lightning arresstor < Message edited by Brains -- 6/30/2008 10:25:49 AM > _____________________________ Let me know when the telegraph companies want their hemingray-42's back! bryan (in reply to bombboy) Post #: 8

RE: Insulator??? Packard Belle - 6/30/2008 3:32:04 PM    glass man Posts: 1318 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: online When I 1st saw it telegraph came to mind. _____________________________ DON'T CARE WHAT NO ONE SAYS I BELIEVE THIS"EVERY GOOD THING COMES FROM GOD"! GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU,PUT IT IN THE SOUL OF EVERYONE GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU SAVED ROCK AND ROLL FOR EVERY ONE! ARGENT,KISS ,PETRA,ME! (in reply to Brains) Post #: 9

RE: Insulator??? Packard Belle - 7/2/2008 10:18:27 PM    carling   Posts: 370 Joined: 9/30/2006 Status: offline Thanks everyone for the replies.  I found it in a basement of a real old abandoned house, just laying on the floor.  I think it was probably ripped out and left after the copper thieves did their thing in that basement. (in reply to glass man) Post #: 10

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