Electrical Thing?

[Cantstopdigging]

Hello Forum,

Can anyone help me to identify this item that I found in a friends backyard? Is it to a temporary work light, or from an electric fence or something? Thanks for looking!

 

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[Tony in SC]

That is a wire connector, probably low voltage DC like a battery pack, coil, etc.

 

[Cantstopdigging]

Thanks Tony! Do you have a picture of it?

 

[mojjax]

My rototiller has a clip like that for the ground wire from the coil .

 

[Tony in SC]

Could be the cap from the carbon rod in a dry cell.

Thanks Tony! Do you have a picture of it?

 

[Mudflap]

It is a connector called a Fahnstock clip. Usually used to make a connection from a single wire to a fixed point like a battery or headphone connection.

 

[nhbenz]

It’s marked on the tab of the clip “John Mucher New York” He had patents dealing with variable resistors... and I’m not sure what else. But here’s one of his patents: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1840168

 

[Cruisin]

MOJJAX, check your old post in "genealogy". We're related. We must be 5th cousins 85 times removed. LOL. Anyway, Mary Perkins Bradbury's parents were amongst my g-grandparents. Sorry for the thread drift, BTW.