[Fwd: What is this thing?]

[Reed]

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Subject: What is this thing?
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:31:06 GMT
From: Mike Dobony <***@notasarian-host.net>
Reply-To: ***@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/***@N04/2267656766/

[Kenneth P. Stox]

Post by Reed
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: What is this thing?
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:31:06 GMT
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?

Old style telephone lightning arrestors.

[Jim Haynes]

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.