A wierd streamlined thingy that might stump you.

I was lucky/unlucky enough to be on an inaugural non-stop flight from Amsterdam to Sydney a bunch of years ago. It was approx 29 hours long If I remember correctly (there were two complete crews on the flight) and SO tedious, even in First Class, that it was soon abandoned. I dreaded the return flight so much that I managed to say in Australia for over a week, until I could get free standby tickets home to NY via 3 stopovers.

 

Can anyone identify the age of the wiring? That could at least put a date on it. The wire is two conductor 10 strands of 0.25mm/0.010" with black rubber? insulation.
Cheers
Stephen

 

I'm enjoying the discussion -- I can't help, but wanted to thank you for asking about this interesting item!

 

I must say "Thanks" that you bumped this Fig. It makes it a bit easier to find - I have been coming back to it a few times a DAY to stare at it........................The "crest" reminds me of an aviation related logo but I'll be darned if I can figure it out.

 

If the resistance of the heating element is measured, it is then a simple matter to deduce the operating voltage range. Something that would function and put out maybe 100 watts on 12 volts would fry almost instantly on 120V household current, Vice versa, if designed to draw a couple of amps or five on 120V it would not warm at all on a automotive battery.

Couple up a rheostat to it and slowly increase a current till it warms up.

It may be a snood amplifier that the people in the universe where all the odd socks go have sent back to us in grateful thanks for all those comfy coverings for their upper dwark organs.

 

The hole has obvious wear around it from something being inserted many times over. There's also lettering on the base below the hole that might be a clue. I still think it's a curling iron heater.

 

I think you have part of a smoking stand.
Looks like an aircraft engine.

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Are these the letters? Looks like USA upside down.

 

I think this item is missing parts.

 

Wish I'd thought of that earlier but I was in panic mode with the asbestos. Unfortunately the brittle wire has broken inside and I can't get to it without opening it again and I'm loath to do that. In fact I'm thinking of sealing up the wiring hole with silastic as well as the inside of the tube that buts up against a wad of the stuff. It's too weird to throw out but it needs to be made safer.
Cheers
Stephen

 

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I could kick myself!! Initially I had dismissed them as surface damage but they are stamped letters

V
160

What that means I haven't a clue but it is a clue never the less.
Well Done

Cheers
Stephen

 

I doubt it but Volts?
160 is the temp it attains?

 

I'm going to pass these pics on to my car club and see what shakes loose there. Some of these guys were sitting around waiting for someone to invent the car...

 

It does look like a hood ornament.....!

 

If a little bit of cemented white asbestos was all that dangerous we'd all be dead already.

One of the main fallacies about asbestos is that it is all the same. Another is that all asbestos products and uses are equally deadly.

The trouble with popular health scares is that very few people study the figures behind the headlines.
So and So doubles your cancer risk sounds really bad. Much worse than saying it more accurately, So and So shows a statistical correlation with an increase in a specific cancer risk from 1 in 10,000 against getting it to 1 in 5000 against getting it. At 5000 to 1 against or 10,000 to 1 against, either way I'm not worried.

Being fat is far more dangerous than asbestos.

Even further off topic, but the British goverment has just decreed new packaging for tobacco. It is black and covered in death threats.
The residual teenage boy in me thinks it is the coolest packaging ever, and should hugely increas the sales of tobacco to the young, especially those of the Goth persuasion.



One attractive feature is that the death threats vary from packet to packet, so to the collector, there is an incentive to collect the full set, however big that may be.

 

I LOVE it...............another unexpected result of government interference

 

Well at least they can't say they didn't warn you.

 

These wrappers are a revelation!
Who knew......

 

Good heavens! Do you live in paranoia or what.

In the 1960s, there was no such thing as a blow dryer. We had bonnet hairdryers.
Guess what they were insulated with? Yep asbestos. I sat every night for 2 hours under that thing doing my homework. According to your fears I should be dead from mesothelioma.

Oh and everything was painted with lead paint, not to mention the aluminum stew pot my mom cooked her soups in and then stored in the refrigerator.

I bet I am healthier than you and I'm not overweight.

 

Hi,
I am the same way. When I was a kid I played with liquid mercury for perhaps three years. I restored five houses which included burning off a hundred years of lead paint. I tore off I do not know how many tons of asbestos from heating pipes. Forget about stripping furniture with all kinds of strippers, although I did not chew on the woodwork when I was a kid. Now the only thing medications I am on are my diabetes meds which if I should lose 25 lbs I would not need them. My BP is 130 over 70 my cholesterol is 110. My MD is stunned by my health for an 80 yr male,
he is 50 and takes 8 to 10 meds. Living on a farm we lived on meats and fats and eggs including butter. In fact I still do. My next wife was a runner and very athletic
and a vegan. Her cholesterol was 390. She is now on 25 to 30 meds and has a live in aide. I have all my own hair only wear glasses for reading since my arms are 3 feet too short now.
greg