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  1. #1
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    Default Can you identify this...thing?

    Hi all,
    I wonder if anyone has any idea what this gadget is/was?
    Apologies for the woeful phone camera pictures.

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    Mick

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    yeah, it's one of those thingamebobs
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    Hmmm, dunno. I thought it looked more like a whosamewhatsit, but couldn't be sure.

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    I think it is a cutting head from a Phillips electric razor, from an era when men were MEN

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    Can you read the patent no?
    Cheers, Richard

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    Something to throw at a cat?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mic-d View Post
    i think it is a cutting head from a phillips electric razor, from an era when men were men

    cheers
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    Quote Originally Posted by rhancock View Post
    Can you read the patent no?
    sadly, no.

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    EG - perhaps yet another way to skin a cat, since there are apparently so many ways to do it?

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    I would have said it could have been a stepper rotor out of an old PMG phone exchange - the post WW2 ones were about half that size, the NSW Police had their's until the mid 1980's - there were only a few blokes that could maintain them then & Telstra was very keen to rip them out & retire the mechanics. I think it was the Haymarket exchange that had the last pulse operated machinery in Sydney.

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