what is this doohickey?

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sts7049
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my girlfriend found this up in the attic of her house. any ideas? looks like some sort of timer/switch thing.





water turkey
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Clock gear?
ABATTBQ11
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Looks like an early model flux capacitor
Whitetail
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That's a dikfer
Rexter
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It's a rotating oscillator that fires a knueter valve in a heating system.
one MEEN Ag
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You'll have better luck on reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing
Sims
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I'll jump in with a guess...the mechanical guts of an old school analog tv channel selector.
Hold on honey, there are people on the internet that are wrong.
sts7049
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one MEEN Ag said:

You'll have better luck on reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing

ah, didn't know about that subreddit! will give that a try.

but if texags figures it out first i will award 100 extra internet points
Vernada
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Whitetail said:

That's a dikfer
what's a...
metrag06
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Guts of an old thermostat?
Whitetail
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sts7049 said:

one MEEN Ag said:

You'll have better luck on reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing

ah, didn't know about that subreddit! will give that a try.

but if texags figures it out first i will award 100 extra internet points
Did you post it to reddit yet?
sts7049
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not yet. still time for texags
dudeabides
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Looks like a rotary selector switch (15 positions?)... not sure for what.
Whitetail
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tnelle said:

Looks like a rotary selector switch (15 positions?)... not sure for what.



Kind of like this:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3459903
sts7049
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looks like we may have a winner
Whitetail
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Goes on an old radio like the one in this restoration. See the rotary switch on the right side of the radio...bottom of the first picture:




http://mcclellans.com/GeneralElectricJ-71Restoration.htm
sts7049
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wow! pretty cool.
Gilligan
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looks like a henway...
cevans_40
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4-6
HalifaxAg
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Clearly an arc reactor
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