Help Identify a Thing-a-ma-jig

[Sundance]

Amongst the auction items I got last fall was a hot knife.

Also there was a flimsy tin box that plugs in and has an outlet. There is a lever that looks likeit has 3 points of contact as the lever moves. One electrical lead goes to the outlet and one goes to what look like 2 heating elements or perhaps big resisters???

Is this a thermostatic control for the hot knife??
Looks fairly unsafe to me and has no markings I can see.....

Any ideas??

Sure wish we could post pics....

[Jim Fischer]

Sounds like a 3-position "cool", "warmer", "hot",
control for something or other. What are the
color bands or markings on the resistors?

There likely is no actual thermostat in that
at all - it would be no more than a primitive
"dimmer switch".

If you have a volt meter, you could check it
out, and see what it does, but any electrical
supply store could sell you a much nicer
variable linear rheostat to feed your uncapping
knife in a MUCH safer package, or at least sell
you the rheostat and a nice box to screw it
into yourself.

> Sure wish we could post pics....

Yeah, I assume that "UBB Code Images not
permitted" implies that "UBB Code Images
are possible if someone would say "OK".

Let's give it a whirl with a photo of SHB
invading hives in Britain:


nope... "I canna give ye warp 11 captain, the
dilithium crrrystals will crrrack fer sure!"

If someone wants to petition the powers
that be about this, there are a wide
variety of different image hosting servers
out there that are free, such as
http://imageshack.us/, so the BeeSource
server itself would not have to host the
pictures.

[Scotty]

It sounds like you're describing an embedder to push wire into wax foundation. Here's a picture of the one I have:

http://www.total-x.org/index.php?nam...265&fullsize=1

http://www.total-x.org/index.php?nam...266&fullsize=1

That what you're talking about?

[Sundance]

Thanks Scotty but no it is not like that.

It is all steel and about 3" x 3" x 9".

I am leaning heavily toward a knife thermostat control......... and it will probably go in the garbage. Looks to dangerous to even plug in Not even a grounded plug!!