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Saw it last year and said I should get that, here it was again. Used to have wire leads on it, so I need to get in there and re-attach something.

Just kind of an oddball piece.

Saw it last year and said I should get that, here it was again. Used to have wire leads on it, so I need to get in there and re-attach something. Just kind of an oddball piece.
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What a nice piece of vintage equipment.

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It is. Just a strange device. It's just resistors and a switch, so as long as the movement isn't burnt out (and it's fused) it should be fine. Will post about it again when I figure out where the leads used to attach.

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Something kids have no idea what this is used for. As they have never purchased batteries. The device comes with it (not them).

I have a shitty plastic one that was my dads.

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One of those little fold-out ones that did AA/AAA/C/D cells?

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It was aa,c and d? Aren’t they the same height?

He soldered on a lead to do aaa. We had one with the springy part that would do all, but I don’t know what happened to it.

He hack all had a micronta batter tester with a selector switch and leads. In a nice case with a snap. When rs made good shit.

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AA and C are the same length, but D is longer and wider.

There's a joke in there somewhere but for the life of me I cannot see it.

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Any idea what year this was sold/mfg'd?

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It's really hard to tell when this was made, but this was designed for radio batteries that pre-dated the common line-operated tube sets of the late 30s. I'd say this was probably sometime between the start of 30s and the beginning of WWII, as this type of set would have been well obsolete (except in rural areas) by then, and only because rural America hadn't been fully electrified yet.

The top jack with 5 pins is for a common ABC battery (Filament/Plate/Bias) used in battery sets.

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I was way off, I was thinking late50's early 60's. That might be worth some cash cleaned up nicely.