tommej Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 What the hell is this thing?! http://i.imgur.com/opHCwOi.jpg
Miscbrah Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Flux capacitor. Electronic lasagne maker. Educational lip piercer. Linux server.
unixman_again Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 My guess is part of an extension telephone bell, that is a bell which is in a different place to where the phone was.
tommej Posted January 7, 2015 Author Posted January 7, 2015 Front plate had a button on it, so I pushed it. Nothing happened 2
Arreks Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Flux capacitor. Electronic lasagne maker. Educational lip piercer. Linux server. Combination, all of the above. It's ALIVE! ALIIIIIVEEEEE!
Oaktech Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Probably something to do with a bell system. Thats a multipole relay, a bi-metallic switch and a dual solenoid switch or actuator...
mrbios Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 That's the schools self destruct mechanism, by pressing the button you've initiated the timer. I'd start running. 1
sippo Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Whatever you do, do not cut the green wire.... or was it the yellow one?! Damn...
MatthewL Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Is there anything or any logos on the front panel that you have taken off? Looks to be either phone related or burglar alarm.
Scotbynature Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 It doesn't matter, there was a button and you just had to press it, haha.
davyboi Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 The bottom right part kind of looks like a tattoo machine! I would guess that it is or was a way to manually sound the bell (to indicate indoor break and the like) and the tattoo machine bit vibrates the little metal arm above the coils up and down to make a buzzing noise so you know it has sounded if you are out of earshot of the bell. 1
tommej Posted January 7, 2015 Author Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) It doesn't matter, there was a button and you just had to press it, haha. Yeah yeah, you resist pressing this: http://i.imgur.com/pLNRJcw.jpg Should note there's only one floor (no lift), and it is a fairly small outer building. Edited January 7, 2015 by tommej
Andrew_C Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 It has the look of old "Post Office Telephones" engineering. But as to what it might have done...
Garacesh Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Oooh, ooh, my time to shine! I actually know what this is! Don't know how you ended up with one of these.. They haven't made them since the '70s. They're used for storing very small electrical currents that can be released when required, I guess sort of like a cross between a battery, a Leyden jar and a defibrillator. If you take the front off you'll find an old dynamo (probably clogged with dust) and a couple of exposed wires.. As you wind it up it'll charge, but you'll probably shock yourself plenty of times, too, so I wouldn't really recommend it. Somewhere inside you'll also find a pair of ports.. They look a bit like coaxial cable ports. Those are used to recieve or transmit power, but they're notorious for being incredibly poorly grounded. See, the machines don't actually have their own ground (otherwise it would lose its power.. It's old tech, don't forget.) so it relies on the ground of whatever you're charging. Which means you have to plug whatever you're charging in. Which means there's no real point in using this thing to charge it. Yes, of course I'm making all this up. I have no idea what it is. I don't even know what it looks like. Imgur is blocked here =D
tommej Posted January 7, 2015 Author Posted January 7, 2015 Oooh, ooh, my time to shine! I actually know what this is! Don't know how you ended up with one of these.. They haven't made them since the '70s. They're used for storing very small electrical currents that can be released when required, I guess sort of like a cross between a battery, a Leyden jar and a defibrillator. If you take the front off you'll find an old dynamo (probably clogged with dust) and a couple of exposed wires.. As you wind it up it'll charge, but you'll probably shock yourself plenty of times, too, so I wouldn't really recommend it. Somewhere inside you'll also find a pair of ports.. They look a bit like coaxial cable ports. Those are used to recieve or transmit power, but they're notorious for being incredibly poorly grounded. See, the machines don't actually have their own ground (otherwise it would lose its power.. It's old tech, don't forget.) so it relies on the ground of whatever you're charging. Which means you have to plug whatever you're charging in. Which means there's no real point in using this thing to charge it. Yes, of course I'm making all this up. I have no idea what it is. I don't even know what it looks like. Imgur is blocked here =D Interesting, what sort of things would this be used to charge and why would they place it around 5 foot up the wall at around shoulder height? haha
Seb1780 Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 It's part of a fire alarm system; the cabling is labeled PYROTENAX. It looks like a locking relay and a bell sounder in there too. Sorry to be so boring
Garacesh Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Interesting, what sort of things would this be used to charge and why would they place it around 5 foot up the wall at around shoulder height? haha Not sure if serious.. xD
MatthewL Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 We had these in parts of hospitals and doctors surgeries I used to work in, often linked to panic alarms and often they were the rest buttom for each room.
MrKJLS Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Yes, of course I'm making all this up. I have no idea what it is. I don't even know what it looks like. Imgur is blocked here =D I see what you did there 1
Martin Posted January 7, 2015 Posted January 7, 2015 Front plate had a button on it, so I pushed it. Nothing happened I hope that you mounted a Scratch Monkey first mb
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