✅ SOLVED Test your skills on this one! Spent years trying to ID this.

[musclecar]

I found this in Alaska about 10 years ago, and have never been able to ID it. It is an aluminum piece, about 3 inches square. It has 15 teeth and is numbered 1-15. There is a stop preventing it from spinning freely. The back has two tabs that may have been used to mount it. ANY GUESSES?

Thanks,

MC

PS The quarter used for size was found yesterday! 1935S Yeah!

 

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[slingchine]

ummm...hmmmm, Daryl, your just down right mean aren't cha I already have my 1000 of each, but i'll gladly share them with everybody..... ....their free.......awright then....ummmm....hmmmm

 

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[BioProfessor]

Just take a picture. It's worth a 1000 something I heard.

Daryl

 

[jrlowe]

470–512 MHz: TV channels 14–20, public safety

It is possible that the dial didn't turn around completely. It is also possible that the tab has been bent upward. Regardless, the fact remains that Televisions were made with this channel dial pattern and is consistent with older sets.

We are on the same team. No worries.

 

[BioProfessor]

My first degree was in electronics in the late sixties and I have seen the inside of my share of old TVs. I've never seen one that had channel numbers you viewed through a window inside the TV. If they made them that way, I'm just saying take a photo of one and we can start looking in that direction.

Daryl

 

[jrlowe]

It's an external dial . It's not inside the tv. The part even reflects that the dial was made to "highlight" the channel selection.
Think past the prior listings. Logic dictates that it is a dial that is tuned by the hand. (All older sets.) Right?
Therefore, this set was the same. What's the hold up.

There is nothing extrodianary about the part. It is a dial to 15.

 

[BioProfessor]

Just never seen one. I assume this is only the indicator as there is no place to attach a knob or shaft to drive a set of contacts. If we can find a diagram or photo of one, it would help. The only external ones I have seen were plastic (bakelite) and the channel number was on the knob with a line indicating the channel. Some older radio sets I've had (CB, Ham) had external dials and some had an internal dial with a window and a light shinning through but nothing like this.

If you can share a photo, please do.


Daryl

 

[jrlowe]

I'll look for a photo Darryl.

I remember a set that I had growing up where the knob pulled off and it was very similar to this, if not the same. I think the set was made by Fisher, but unsure currently.

The original listing says that it is a 10 year find too. It affirms the part is consistent with later technology.

Regards,

Fellow Metal detector

 

[BioProfessor]

I know what you mean but this thing would be driven by something connected to the knob. Never seen that - old or new. Everything I have ever seen has had the channel indicator on the knob that turned - either outside engraved on the knob or inside through an illuminated window - never something driven by the knob. That's where I have the problem with it being from an analog TV. I'll look at old Fisher stuff just to check.

Here's the oldest images of a tuner I can find and the channel indicator is on the knob. This is what I remember and yes they pulled off.

Daryl

 

[jrlowe]

I see why you are frustrated.
You are looking too far out.
I am speaking of a unit used in the late 70's or early 80's. God, do I still have it in my mom's garage?

 

[BioProfessor]

Jeez, I may still be watching one.

I have looked at sites that have collections of vintage to modern TVs. I couldn't find any analog tuners that didn't have the channel selector either on the dial or, as most of the ones in the 80' had, an illuminated window with the channel number. Nothing even remotely like this aluminum cog-driven indicator driven by the channel changing knob. Just not there.

Daryl

 

[jrlowe]

I'll find the photos.. It may be a while, but I will.

Process of elimination. It's over 10 years old. It has 15 channel dials. It changes channels.

It's a channel tv dial or a CB dial. I have seen this type of dial, where the cap is not the same as the dial.

John

 

[BioProfessor]

And this from a person who spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours looking for "crape" in the ground. Spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours and gets excited about a merc. Spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours and get excited about a wheatie. Spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours and think $20 in clad was a great day

That's what we do, right?

Daryl

 

[BioProfessor]

You?

Daryl

 

[BioProfessor]

Sorry. My mistake. I just thought you were pretty much like most of us with this disease.

Daryl

 

[night0wl]

Great scott, It's our flux capacitor , needed to get back to the future!

 

[dozer dan]

it looks like a chain barrell roller wear gauge. each # on the tool indicates more or less wear on the rollers between chain links (like motorcycle chains) that way you could replace them before the broke

 

[emtrescue]

Think it might be off an old woodworking tool (like a planer) where to adjust it you move the wheel with the points?

 

[pronghorn]

I think whomever suggested it mounts on a cage and is a hand operated
counter for whatever, quarantine days, vaccination, gestation on something
is right. It appears to hang on a wire from the two V prongs and the two
tabs on the bottom are bent upward around the wire to secure it. Looks like
it was used a little by the wear under the outside edge of the teeth but the tabs
to secure it were never bent up or were bent back so that you can't see they
were once bent up.

If the distance between the two wires I photoshopped into the pic below
is close to two inches, seems like it would mount on standard cage wire
or dog fence material.

 

[pronghorn]

Just a thought, how long do you have to quarantine an animal if you
suspect it has been infected with rabies

 

[Montana Jim]

Just a thought, how long do you have to quarantine an animal if you
suspect it has been infected with rabies

10 days.