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My wife just texted me a little concerned because she received a text from a number she's never seen before and the only thing in the text was this picture. What is it?


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Tick tock tick tock tick tock.... Run....



No idea...Looks old
 

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Have her send back a picture of a gun with a "FUCK OFF" :thumbup:
 

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Kinda weird I don't know what it is, but I swear I have seen that exact thing in my adventures in life somewhere.
 

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She said she wasn't going to respond. Just thought it was very strange.

It was a 714 area code number. Isn't that SoCal?
 

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Maybe part of an old electric sewing machine motor assembly? Or some sort of electric motor assembly.
 

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That looks like a capacitor on top of that old school transformer.
 

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714 is an OG Orange County area code.
I still have it for my cell phone, don't wanna give it up since they aren't issuing any new 714 numbers.

Looks like old telecom stuff to me...?
 

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I would hope it's just been sent by someone that typed in a wrong number
 

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Kinda weird I don't know what it is, but I swear I have seen that exact thing in my adventures in life somewhere.

You probably have. It looks like a step down transformer with a capacitor start for a VFD on a lathe or mill.
Could also apply to a HVAC system.
 

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My wife just texted me a little concerned because she received a text from a number she's never seen before and the only thing in the text was this picture. What is it?


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Somebody sent a picture of an appliance needing repair to a wrong number is the most likely situation......

Gotta feel for Gronads wife never knowing who her dumbass husband pissed off today or yesterday or again tomorrow., and the shit that could spill over on her.:rolleyes
 

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Looks like parts out of a old 1960's HVAC combo unit I had on a old building.
 

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I'm thinking it's a step up transformer / power supply for an electrostatic hvac filter
 

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714 is an OG Orange County area code.
I still have it for my cell phone, don't wanna give it up since they aren't issuing any new 714 numbers.

Looks like old telecom stuff to me...?

714 here too. They wanted to give my kids the new area code. I talked her into 714 numbers as well.
 

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714 is an OG Orange County area code.
I still have it for my cell phone, don't wanna give it up since they aren't issuing any new 714 numbers.

Looks like old telecom stuff to me...?

OG IE too.
 

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the diodes on the left side (rectifier), and the big starting cap make me think welder, but the transformer looks like a battery charger with 6 & 12 volt windings.
 

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That's part of an IP spoofing unit commonly used to generate duplicate screenames and circumvent IP bans on popular forum software from the early 2000's.

Nailed it! ;)
 

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Dunno. But it looks like you're gonna need a 7 sided gangly wrench and a westley sprocket to tear it down.
 

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It's a high pressure sodium ballast and starting capacitor for a 400w light fixture
 

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Alum panel contains an AMP gauge opposite the black leads. Transformer is a 6/12 volt.
 

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Looks like one of those old multi sound/function doorbell power & control.
 

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looks like the capacitor and components of a trane or other AC unit
 
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