Blob of fuzz.....


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too easy - might let someone else get this one..

You have a lead bender - I'm sure you have one of these.

Soldering iron tip cleaner

if thats what it is... cool  ... seen them before and wondered.... all my mates use the old wet dish sponge method though... must be a really posh/swanky type to use the pictured one!! 

Quote from: Paulcet on April 09, 2013, 09:13:54 PM
Soldering iron tip cleaner

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Quote from: adidasguy on April 09, 2013, 09:13:08 PM
You have a lead bender - I'm sure you have one of these.

I do have a few.. and a sponge trick one with my gas soldering iron.

for everyone's info - we use steel wool a lot in substations and other sites - keeps rats and mice from chewing their way into cabinets and ducts...

Almost looks like a glass top lol

Some kind of Homopolar generator

Quote from: pliskin on April 10, 2013, 06:05:53 AM
Some kind of Homopolar generator

Interesting, but no.
The amber/bronze is glass. The disc inside does turn.

Rotating Disc Fermenter
Electrostatic Machine

It also looks like some kind of CRT (cathode ray tube)

CRT: a very distant cousin. Voltage here is probably in the tens of thousands.

High voltage Vacuum Variable Capacitor
Electrostatic Capacitor

Hell, I'm running out of stuff here.

No air or gas inside.  So, yeah, vacuum.  Not a capacitor.

Last guess
Carbon NanoTube-Reactor
Neutron generator
Vacuum Tube Multi-wave Oscillator
Vacuum tube Dekatron Spinner
Glass Resistor

aperture flywheel grommice with a vacuum gasket?

Blinker fluid exciter for tire switch machine 

Not something food related? like a pepper grinder?

is that a cathode ray tube from an x-ray machine?