Posted 4 years ago
RareBitRave
(16 items)
still looking to find out who made this item. Im not the only one looking into this. Im hearing lots of possibilities of who made it but trying to find any sort of electrical component set like this is feeling impossible, but i have to know. ET0208/007 written in black ink on the actual piece inside, does this mean something?
Im so so tempted to peel back that green felt under the base just to see if theres anything, but i will not be doing that, i cant.
stands 5"inches tall and weighs around 800 g, heavy for a little thing
The clear plastic/resin holding the weird spark plug looking thing spins 360, the base is metal.
More than happy to answer your questions but hope you answer mine : )
Thank you so much
Heres the number which is written in black ink on part of it:
ET0208/007
FWIW (probably not much?) the thing inside the plastic looks very much like its some kind of 'transformer', probably for some rather specialized usage due to its unusual form. That it is now so nicely mounted 'for display' would make me wonder if it was custom made as an executive's office desk accessory/paperweight....???
I think you're right about that Tim, it's odd that it doesn't have a presentation name plate, but might be something that a 1930's-50's company made, because of the stand that it's mounted in, is from that era. An electrical engineer, or part collector, might know what the piece is for, but I'm not that person! :^D Good luck RareBitRave, finding anything more about it, but it's a cool Display piece anyway! :^)
FWIW....it looks like a novelty device that would arc electric current across the 3 electrodes.
The stand just Surrett’s it and let’s you angle it for best observation of the electrical activity.
All that wiring acts as a battery to produce the current.
.......all that is from my amateur brain...... ;^)
So forgive me if I’m wrong!
Make that “supports”, not “Surrett’s”...
wow Thank you ALL so much for your response. All your info makes sense and im going to use it and continue to search for all the info i can get. If thats the case, i dont think there would be any others like this one. I love finding the weird and wonderful and learning about the items.
Once again Thank you Watchsearcher, Billretirecoll and AnythingObscure
you guys rock : )
This makes me think of some expensive novelty item that serves no practical use, yet is interesting and entertaining to see (if only briefly).
The store “Brookstone”, which I used to occasionally browse in malls, comes to mind as a store which sold odd but interesting items....so investigate among stores like that as you try to find what this thing is called.
If it just arcs electricity, it would be right at home in a Frankenstein-type laboratory. ;^)
Could it have belonged to James Bond?
I wonder if this will spin around freely? If so and you do it fast does it light up? The bottom portion looks like some type of magneto. The base may actually have a purpose other than just being a weight.
If you look at it fhrjr2, it's placed in solid resin, so nothing would move(slide up and down), it's just to show the piece. It could be a product that the Company made, that founded it, or just an example of the type of Electrical equipment that it produces. The 3 wires are just positive, negative and ground, connectors is all. All said and done, it's probably just a Paperweight! :^D I like the idea of it being the one product, that made a multi-million dollar Company! :^)
Bill -- you're thinking along the very same lines I am. :-) Some kinda little electrissical bit of something that might have even made its producing Company a big ole pile of cash for 'revolutionary engineering' of whatever it actually is. (NASA, or something likewise not typical 'consumer goods'?) Good point of yours also to notice the lack of any actual ID nameplate on it, I'd wonder if it did actually once have somesuch...??
Thanks for help im still working on it. Iv heard it could be a Dynamic Transducer, an electrical Conductor of some kind ( definitly an electrical component) i still dont know for sure, i have email some people who i think should at least tell what the component is. The colour of the wires show its before 1977. I was struggling at first and believe me i even went down the road of Movie props because of that 007, i can see this sort of thing sat on Qs desk.
Really cool hearing your opinions, i will keep you updated.
Thank you
One more question RareBitRave -- is the plastic/resin the part is mounted inside of *solid*, or *hollow*in some way?
Hi AnythingObscure
I dont think any part of it is hollow, metal base, the plastic/resin ( most people think its resin) and the actual piece inside it all seems solid. Lots of interest on Facebook in the electrical groups. Having heard lots of possibilities, even military weapon equipment, but still not sure enough. I get back to you soon
Thank you
Hi again.
I showed it on Allabout circuits
and a gentleman said its part of accelerometer, which contains two ferrite pot cores and coils, first used for measurement of free-field particle motion from a nuclear explosion in salt.
Project 12-11 (Salmon, 5 kt), October 22, 1964.
Im going to look into this for sure as this seems very convincing.
For some reason I feel like my antique Edison Diamond Disc Player has something very similar. I’ll return shortly, after a brief pause for a baby butt wiping with the answer.
It kind of looks like an RCA Victor Electron Tube, or some brand of electron tube. They’re used to power a record player. I feel like I’ve seen them in old tube guitar amplifiers too.