[Fwd: What is this thing?]

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[Fwd: What is this thing?] Reed 02-16-2008
Posted by Reed on February 16, 2008, 3:39 pm
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: What is this thing?
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:31:06 GMT
Reply-To: sword@notasarian-host.net
Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair

We found this thing in the basement of my daughter's home they just
bought.
Can anybody identify what it is?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23816537@N04/2267656766/

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Posted by Kenneth P. Stox on February 16, 2008, 5:06 pm
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Reed wrote:
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: What is this thing?
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:31:06 GMT
> Reply-To: sword@notasarian-host.net
> Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com
> Newsgroups: alt.home.repair
>
> We found this thing in the basement of my daughter's home they just bought.
> Can anybody identify what it is?
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/23816537@N04/2267656766/

Old style telephone lightning arrestors.

Posted by Jim Haynes on February 16, 2008, 5:24 pm
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Can't say I've seen one before, but the aluminum cans look like
Western Electric capacitors or inductors. The values and part
numbers are probably stamped on the ends. With that it shouldn't
take much work to trace out the wiring and tell us what you
have there.

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