Volt-tick, ticker = non-contact voltage detectors.

reeler = spooler, stand

KO fillers = "snap ins" (also used for breaker space fillers)

Have sent several e-mails to the folks over @ tradeslang - great site, but their picture of "dikes" looks amazingly like a set of Klein linesman pliers... as I said in my e-mail "If I'd handed those to my foreman when he asked me for dikes, I'd woulda caught 'em in the head!" [Linked Image]

Doc - we call 4" x 4" x 1 1/2" boxes "1900's" up here in the Chicago area too. The 2 1/2" deep ones are, of course, "deep 1900's".