A Scrapper's Dream: electrical and non-ferrous

Some good decent head lamps out there to go with your cowboy hat....Used to use one when I was working for Amazon(dark in the campground!)LED..was like..10 bucks if that at walmart. Worked awesomely for several years, till I forgot where i put it, an when I found it, it was a in a flooded box.

Good for just taking photos, if the other is overkill. Sure their even cheaper these days. Or if ya got a smart phone, the flashlight app, strong but will kill a battery.



Yea, nothing earth shattering..just thoughts. Use at your peril.

Sirscrapalot - Character is power. - Booker T. Washington

I think those top things are telephone equipment like mentioned. I've taken a few apart. Take the back/bottom lid off and hit all the grey tabs out from the front. They'll look like aluminum, but are copper with some kind of coating. Went as #2 copper.

Looks to me like some type of old telephone termination equipment.

Are there 2 wires twisted together making a "jumper" from left to right at the top of the photo? If so, then you have found the "cross connect" of the old telephone switching equipment. Typically, at a telephone company switching equipment location, the "cross connect" is called a Main Distribution Frame (MDF). The outside cables would terminate on the vertical side and the switching equipment would terminate on the horizontal side. Jumpers are run to connect a person's phone cable to the switching equipment.

If this is an old key system (internal telephone system), the cables running to each desk phone would terminate one place and the switching equipment would terminate on other blocks. Jumpers would be run to "cross connect" the internal cable runs to the switching equipment.

The bottom of the picture could some old mechanical switching equipment; can't tell from the photo.