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What is this?? - 3/1/2010 4:09:14 PM    Hollywood   Posts: 14 Joined: 1/28/2010 Status: offline Found during a dump dig. I can provide more photos if needed. Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: What is this?? - 3/1/2010 4:11:12 PM    woody Posts: 3639 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline A battery. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to Hollywood) Post #: 2

RE: What is this?? - 3/1/2010 4:15:01 PM    TJSJHART Posts: 1209 Joined: 9/10/2007 From: Arizona Status: online that green color says that the thing in the middle is copper ?  and my guess is,,, maybe an early transformer  .. no not the robot things.. _____________________________ .N.R.A. LIFER (in reply to Hollywood) Post #: 3

RE: What is this?? - 3/1/2010 4:16:07 PM    Hollywood   Posts: 14 Joined: 1/28/2010 Status: offline I think this is what is inside the contraption. Attachment (1) (in reply to woody) Post #: 4

RE: What is this?? - 3/1/2010 4:27:25 PM    woody Posts: 3639 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: offline Thats the core of the battery. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to Hollywood) Post #: 5

RE: What is this?? - 3/1/2010 4:29:43 PM    Hollywood   Posts: 14 Joined: 1/28/2010 Status: offline Thank you very much Woody ! This site is awesome ! (in reply to woody) Post #: 6

RE: What is this?? - 3/1/2010 10:21:01 PM    Dabeel Posts: 849 Joined: 3/12/2004 From: Baltimore origin, Now the Bay Area,CA Status: offline Be careful handling those old batteries...........I just leave them when I find them as they are quite difficult to get rid of in terms of current regulations on throwing away toxic stuff, etc. Doug (in reply to Hollywood) Post #: 7

RE: What is this?? - 3/1/2010 10:25:08 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 11897 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: offline He's right, I think I have brain damage from handling those.. additionally I think handling those has given me brain damage..  (in reply to Dabeel) Post #: 8

RE: What is this?? - 3/1/2010 11:20:20 PM    blobbottlebob Posts: 3354 Joined: 12/20/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline You allright there Chuck? I find lots of those things in the water. From time to time I find them in boxes with ceramic dividers. I also leave them but I usually figure that I'm at least in an older area . . . (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 9

RE: What is this?? - 3/2/2010 7:53:24 PM    logueb   Posts: 2885 Joined: 1/6/2007 Status: offline I believe they were called a Dry Cell car battery.  I have dug them in clusters of 6 or more.  I think that the center rod is solid carbon. Not much different than todays flashlight batteries, just bigger.  Probably not effective as todays wet cell batteries. _____________________________ Buster Bottle Bug Bit with no cure in sight. (in reply to blobbottlebob) Post #: 10

RE: What is this?? - 3/3/2010 4:49:22 PM    alicehollis37   Posts: 46 Joined: 2/20/2010 Status: offline I dug over 100 of those things out of a hole at an old homesite. Too bad those carbon rods arent valuable like the platinum in converters. _____________________________ alice (in reply to logueb) Post #: 11

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