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Mr. Tedesco,

Here are some pictures to add to your thread about old devices.


The face of an old surface mount Leviton Receptacle.

The back of the same receptacle, note the price, adjust for inflation, and these things were expensive!

A Trumbull brand double pole switch.


An old Leviton switch in my house, the "bandaid" is the real McCoy added by my Grandmother years ago to keep the cover from falling off...

Thanks!

-Virgil


[This message has been edited by Joe Tedesco (edited 07-15-2002).]

Paul,

I have seen Trumball electrical parts here in Nj before. They made circuit breakers for sure. ( I might even have one or two left.) I don't think they made circuit breaker panels though, cause I haven't seen any of them.

Caper

Similar to Paul's Trumbull Switch, the one I have has lettering on the back that says:

709
Made in U.S.A.
2-25

Great thread! Keep 'em coming!

Bjarney,

You know you may be right, it has been a long time since I saw that "dimmer" installed. I guess it was when I first started in my own business around 1984, before that I worked for an electrical contractor. I only started to save the old parts when I was in my own business. One of the jobs I worked on had a beautiful all brass, fuse box, with knife switches to disconnect branch circuits from the brass busbar, and a large brass douple pole knife switch that was used for the main disconnect. I wish I could have gotten pictures of that.

Caper

Those pole-switches weren't used for 110 AC, were they?

Harold E, our downtown church building has a panelboard like you are describing that is still in use. It's the originial one put in back when the church was built. It just scares the bejeeebers out of me to know that it is in a room that many have access to. But it is a beauty!!

i have quite a variety of old watthour meters by the big 4 GE,DUNCAN,westinghouse,& SANGAMO.some go back to 1898 & up to present day.

Caper:
If you haven't already looked at it, cast an eye on Trainwire's thread in this discussion area entitled "32 volt DC lighting panel". There are some pix of a wonderful old panel, as well as an interesting description of it.

Regarding the large ceramic rheostat pic you posted, I have run into a couple of these in the past. They were used to regulate the amount of DC voltage being fed to two carbon arc lamps in a theater projection room. If memory serves me, I believe only one end of the coil was connected to the DC source (a motor-generator set)and the tap connection fed to a large ballast resistor, then to the arc lamp. I think these rheostats were made by Ohmite, and each had a large control knob like the one you posted.

Circuit Man: I like old meters also. Have two or three in my collection. Down in this area (SE Texas), they are pretty hard to come by. Can you post some pix of your collection?

Mike (mamills)

mike as of the moment i don't have any way ,but i have a friend that has a way.maybe i can get him to help.ERWIN

mike ,just thought of one thing.check out watthourmeters.com.it's a friends website.hopefully then i can get some pics. posted.