I real whats it!!!??!

[DanTheNewbie]

Ok hike forever into the woods today , nasty heat thick air horrible bugs and no good targets for a few hours. I finally get what seems to be a nickel signal on my dfx . I dug down About 4in and I pulled out and have no clue what it is. The loop and base seem to be wood or some kind of weird composite the pipe thing is brass and steel it says made in Chicago on the front side and a company named Schwehzer & unreadable**
I was thinking some kind of salesmen sample? There's gotta be someone who can Identify this whatsit

 

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The tube part reminds me of an electrical fuse cutout

 

[digging wv]

It does look like a disconnect/fusable link of some sort. But that looks like a removable top on the left side of pix. humm. Like to see this one solved myself.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Can you take a pic of where it says Schwehzer? Doesnt it say Sand

 

[Pstarkey35]

Looks to me like the fuse and housing that the power company uses in aerial transformers. You will sometimes see techs using long yellow poles to put fuses back on after a power outage.

 

[Pstarkey35]

maybe an older version or something

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

A better close up here would help.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

it says made in Chicago on the front side and a company named Schwehzer & unreadable**

Could it be Schweitzer?

 

[DanTheNewbie]

Yeah at the top it says sanc or sand and the schwehzer part is so dull I have to use a led flashlight pointing down on it to barely read it, the other side is all gone but the first letter C

 

[DanTheNewbie]

Can you take a pic of where it says Schwehzer? Doesnt it say Sand

Here's the top it says sand c. I believe

 

[NOLA_Ken]

I see a casting line on the brown part, is it Bakelite maybe? It looks like some kind of fuze to me, and there is a company in the Chicago area called Schweitzer Engineering Labs that makes electrical parts. About SEL

It looks like it would have clamped on to something, then swung into place like a hinge, and the two aluminum parts would have been the contacts. The loop would have been for a hook tool to pull it open to break the circuit.

 

[DanTheNewbie]

Could it be Schweitzer?

It definitely reads schwehzer

 

[DanTheNewbie]

I see a casting line on the brown part, is it Bakelite maybe? It looks like some kind of fuze to me, and there is a company in the Chicago area called Schweitzer Engineering Labs that makes electrical parts. About SEL

It looks like it would have clamped on to something, then swung into place like a hinge, and the two aluminum parts would have been the contacts. The loop would have been for a hook tool to pull it open to break the circuit.

That's cool! How old do you guys think this would be if it's a fuse?

 

[NOLA_Ken]

I think the square emblem says "S and C' If I had to guess an age from looking at it I'd go with anywhere from the 1920's to the late 40's, but that's a complete stab in the dark.... Let me poke around a bit and see what I can find

The company is still in business since 1911, try sending them a pic and see if they can id it for you : http://www.sandc.com/company/default.asp

 

[DanTheNewbie]

I see a casting line on the brown part, is it Bakelite maybe? It looks like some kind of fuze to me, and there is a company in the Chicago area called Schweitzer Engineering Labs that makes electrical parts. About SEL

It looks like it would have clamped on to something, then swung into place like a hinge, and the two aluminum parts would have been the contacts. The loop would have been for a hook tool to pull it open to break the circuit.

I thought Schweitzer too but they were founded in the 80's and it looks older than that

 

[DanTheNewbie]

I have a feeling there's a lot more there. I took this one out and got the same signal, I moved around and same signal all over the place just didn't want to carry 500 lbs with me, I can always go back

 

[digging wv]

I believe you're on the right track with a power line disconnect. Seems to have the right parts, just smaller than I can find. Wish this post was a bit earlier. With all the power outages here we had utility workers out the keester!

 

[Pstarkey35]

I work along side AEP linemen all the time as I'm a lineman for the local cable company and I'm pretty confident that's what it is. We have some that look very similar in the older parts of Columbus.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Yeah it's most likely S and C, it could be from a power plant, a substation, or an industrial use. I'd email them a pic and see if they have a company historian who can give you a good ID on it.


About S&C Electric Company

 

[The Swed Hunther]

It reminds me about some sort of a lock. You know the one that could be on gates and so on, you pull i backwards (the top) and the stick goes back with the help of the fether? Sorry for the bad spelling,miss that function!