Game: Guess the mystery object !

[Hemlock_Mike]

High current contactor or breaker.

Current shunt for a high current metering circuit.

HMike

 

[Kookapeli]

it's part of a 3 way lock thing for a door ???

 

[tysonc1979]

High current contactor or breaker.

Current shunt for a high current metering circuit.

HMike

it's part of a 3 way lock thing for a door ???

Nope!

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

Can you give us a dimension? Perhaps a battery disconnect for a car battery.
HMike

 

[Benm]

Looks like it would make a fine slide lock for a bathroom stall to me, regardles of what its actual function is

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

6 hours and not a hint ---- Sometimes these take too long.
HMike

 

[anselm]

Post something else instead, so we can have two riddles going at the same time.
I have no clue about tysonc's other than that it looks like some sliding lock.

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

OK --- a piece of old technology -----

This is 2.5" long...........

Please try to be somewhat specific.

HMike

 

[anselm]

a themostat?
a filter?
a valve?
Yeah, very specific, I know.

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

Fleming valve? OLD ??? Electrons.
HMike

 

[Coherent Light]

crt electron gun.

 

[Hemlock_Mike]

electrons but not a CRT. Metal and glass.
HMike

1:Think transmit, High frequency
2: Triode

 

[Flaminpyro]

it's 2.5 inches long and it's a final amlifier tube from a high power radio
transmitter made from silver plated copper and berilium
or is it a high power tuning capacitor ?

 

[Coherent Light]

cheapo magnetron.

 

[millirad]

Is it one end of an Argon laser tube? Edit: Oh, ok it's an amplifier tube, I thought it was still being guessed at.

 

[millirad]

Here's something to analyze..............