Trigger Mike Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 we installed a syphon to compensate for my neighbors broken dam and the rush of water on the other side from the siphon unearthed the item in the picture that my son found today. We don't know what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Just a WAG here since no one has answered. It looks like parts to an electrical system like knob and tube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Suspect it is the guts from an alarm or outside telephone bell. The part that looks like a spool of thread is what's left of the solenoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Bell alarm. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 junk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 door bell Texas Lizard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 It's a discombobulator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Smuteye John SASS#24774 said: It's a discombobulator. A key component in the Turbo Encabulator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Grilled cheese with additional parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.D. Daily Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 The upper item is a high voltage transformer or ignition coil. I can't tell what the lower item is that has the two lager dia. wires attached. The attached wires are either coaxial or are for high voltage. It may be part of an old electro-mechanical fence charger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Smuteye John SASS#24774 said: It's a discombobulator. Hypernuciating discombobulator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 It's off the Hubble Space Telescope. Well, it ain't on the Hubble Space Telescope, so it's got to be off of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assassin Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 I agree with Lizard, it appears to be a doorbell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Definitely a discombobulator. And it still works, too! It bothered you enough for you to take the picture, post and wade through all of these replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 Oooh...Oooohhh...I know...It's GARBAGE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Boots Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 It fell off the Delorean on their last visit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 The bit of stainless or aluminum on the back looks like tubing. The wiring looks Mickey Moused, with some old plug (older than the screw and the rubber vibration isolator), and what looks like a fuse holder covered with tape likely that went to a switch (maybe a level sensor). So either a pump or solenoid to control flow of some liquid. Small volume high pressure, or an air pump maybe to aerate water. But the electrical plug indicates a stationary device rather than something on a tractor or truck. And when it comes down to it, @Pat Riot, SASS #13748 is correct as to the question of what it is now. I'm trying to answer the question "What was it?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylan Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Shocked so many here don't recognize a thing-ma-jigger from a doohickey. It's obviously not a what-cha-ma-callit from a thinga-ma-bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 It certainly isn't a humdinger (anyone here work on old tube radios in the mid '70s?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 15 hours ago, LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L said: It's off the Hubble Space Telescope. Well, it ain't on the Hubble Space Telescope, so it's got to be off of it. Your reasoning is sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigger Mike Posted July 10, 2020 Author Share Posted July 10, 2020 Part of electric fence makes sense as years ago it was formed and lots of fence all over. It is also near where a still was.decades ago, or so I am told. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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