✅ SOLVED Copper date tag?

[TKgal]

This has two alike copper(?) tags turned opposite and soldered? or cemented together? Both sides- left side under hole stamped 160 and a degree sign and right side under hole 1959


side 1.

side 1.

side 2.


copper one cent for comparison

 

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[tamrock]

Part of a battery clamp.

 

[TKgal]

Thanks Tamrock,

It is not as flat as the battery clamp shown and the center of each side is raised and slotted, but when turned over one slot is up and one is down.

 

[tamrock]

Thanks Tamrock,

It is not as flat as the battery clamp shown and the center of each side is raised and slotted, but when turned over one slot is up and one is down.

I'm not 100% sure, but that's my first thought.

 

[rick67]

First thought. (Line rope tensioner)

 

[Tony in SC]

I think it is for some type of old small cable/wire clamp. Tony

Part of a battery clamp.

 

[tamrock]

I think it is for some type of old small cable/wire clamp. Tony

10-4 on that...Being made of copper does lead me to think it was intended for electrical use. A clamp for a lightning ground rod would also be a good candidate.

 

[TKgal]

Interesting- Why would they solder two alike pieces when they could make one piece?

 

[Crappies-n-Coins]

It's a fusible link of some sort. It's meant to melt apart (at the 160* point it's marked), and activate "something", possibly a fire alarm.

 

[tamrock]

I think c-n-c has just nailed it. In 1975 / 76 I had a job working for a company fixing and installing rolling steel garge doors. In large buildings some of the partitioned walls would have openings with rolling steel fire doors and they'd be rigged to drop and seal off the building in fire. We'd even do a drop test once a year on the fire doors we installed. It was a fusible link that would fail at a set temperature that would allow the rolling steel door to drop free. If not that maybe a heavy duty engine starter fusible link is what that is? The drawing is one used in a fire door. I wasn't getting what this soldering being described was all about from the picture, but now I do. I'm very sure it's a fusible link designed for some kind of fire or electrical overload application.

 

[TKgal]

Crappies- Wow- That makes sense. The whole soldered together thing was a question in my mind when I looked at it. I am considering this nailed.

Thanks. and the 1959 engraved is the date.