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1 is a dial telephone mechanism. 2 is used with an Ether capsule to start a diesel engine by inserting the capsule and closing the lid to puncture it allowing it to go into the intake manifold.

1 is a rotary dial from the old telephones 2 is an ether injector pot , it uses a jelly capsule that is filled with liquid ether to help start the engine. It is placed after the air filter on the intake pipe to the engine.

Mr. Pete, Thank You for continuing the "Mystery Tools" series. The brain teasers are a great way to start the day.

Wow Mr Pete your bringing back great memories especially with the either ball cup I haven’t seen one of those many many years thanks again for taking the time to make your videos for all of us to watch

A Thermostat and a Oil Cup are My Guess, Thanks, Lyle - Keeping History Alive with Education...

I'm obvious not the first to recognize the telephone dial, but haven't a clue as to the other piece. This was fun, thanks for posting.

Everyone probably already knows this, but the governor on the rotary dialer is needed to space out the pulses created by the switch. It is automated telegraphy.

Reading the comments for item 1, I knew that sound but wasn't fast enough. Thanks, Mr Pete!

Both of those are very interesting items! I am reasonably sure the first item is a pulse dialing mechanism from an old rotary dial telephone. The Gits cup looks like something I have seen before on a very old marine generator engine. Someone had told me it was for spraying starting fluid into the engine, which I had not quite understood. In seeing other comments, now I understand that it is for ether capsules. Thank you for keeping up these videos! They are always very enjoyable to watch!

We used an item like #2 on Diesel engines. We had a can with gel cells filled with starter fluid and before starting the engine we would put a gel egg into the cup and close the lid, and the egg would be punched and the starting fluid would be released and then we would hit the starter and off you would go.

#1... indeed, all of us olders that ever took a phone apart, or even listened as you dialed, would know it. The mechanisms were wonderful gadgets, #2 ... I’m stumped. I have seen every oiler, zerk and alemite grease fittings in common use, but that piercing insert in the oiler cup has me.

Coming up on my 78th summer !-- and still curious !! LOL

Good morning Lyle. Item number 1 is from a tv antenna rotor. Item number 2 is for diabetic glucose testing. The lid is lifted, then the index finger is poked into the opening. The blood sample is then collected from the brass fitting and placed on test strip.

Number 1 Very similar to the ones in UK. It’s the back of a ‘dial and select mechanism’. For a telephone. The ratchet wheel allows quick selection of the dial number (or letter) then engages the gears to return relatively slowly allowing the contacts to be made and broken by the cam; the centrifugal governor limits the speed. With old systems, multiple relays at the automatic exchange had to have the pulses along the telephone lines limited in their frequency. Number 2 I’ve seen one similar on an old oil engine (similar principle to a Diesel engine - induction; compression; ignition; exhaust cycle). In the oil engine I saw, for a cold start, cotton wool soaked in highly volatile hydrocarbons was placed under cap, the item being located via an isolation valve, in the inlet manifold. Useless piece of information: Both in the USA and the UK, early telephone systems had two bare wires strung between insulation terminals on wooden poles. In a wind, the bare wires would touch each other and a pulse sent to the exchange. This might be inconvenient, but operators in the exchange - or even those with telephones at home, could easily recognise single random pulses. It was decided in the UK that for emergency services, a clear pulse signal had to discriminate between the deliberate dialling and accidental, wind induced pulses. The largest number on the dial was chosen - 9 - since no wind could send nine pulses equally spaced. We went all the way in the UK with 999, while you in the USA had the same idea, but only chose the first number that could not be mistaken - 911. 👍🇬🇧👍🇺🇸👍

Not sure about item one even though I’m over 60. Item 2 we use for starting diesel engines. We called them ether balls. It would pierce the ball in the lid with ceiling had a decompression lever to get the motor spinning and they start right up.

No1 pule dialling mechanism for a rotary dial phone, likely pre 1960. No 2 is an oiler, where you use a inverted sealed bottle to introduce the oil.

To be honest. #1 switching relay to reverse direction of a motorized device. #2 ether capsule cup for diesel engines. Usually in the tube after the oil bath air cleaner. I've also seen them on the intake manifold. The brass fitting should have a perforated stone in it to trap fragments and dirt.

Morning Lyle

Thanks Mr Pete. 1. Is a rotary phone dial and I'm guessing that 2. Is a for putting additives in the fuel system. The sharp part would puncture the little foil seal on the end of the skinny necked bottle. Update; after reading the comments, the ether pot sounds more likely.

#1 - Pulse dial mechanism. #2 - No-peel over-ripe banana pulp extractor.

#1 is a pulse dialer from an old rotary phone. It would momentarily break the circuit loop, the phone switch would see that and count the number of breaks. (0=10). This was all before DTMF tones came along with switches like the Nortel DMS etc. Some older pay phones could be fooled into making free calls by simply flapping the hook switch and counting the breaks, leaving a pause between each number. This was eventually remedied.

#1 dial telephone mechanism #2 ether egg capsule for cold starting diesel engines🤗😎🤗😎

Item no 1 is a 12inch instrument recorder used to measure variables such as vibration, fuel flow, pressures etc. It was in use in product development

1 is the mechanism from a telephone for pulse dialing. 2 is to add starting gas for some engines in the form of ether (Diethyl ether). We used them for some old reserve power generators when I did my military service -those had a screw cap lid though if I remember correctly. Which for me is amusing since this makes both parts relevant to that time since I worked with signals for the Swedish air force (phone, radio and more)

#1 is a rotary dial contact for a telephone

I wasn't 100% sure about the phone dial at first, but as soon as you operated it, the sound gave it away.

Good one #1 dial phone dial. #2 not sure. Thanks Lyle.

Big 👍👍👍👍👍 Mrpete. Got no idea what they are, looking forward to part 2 to find out

#2 ether injection unit. My Dad's 1967 Mack diesel had one. You had a football shaped ether capsule you placed inside the Gitz unit. When you closed the lid, the angled tube in the center would pierce the capsule injecting the ether into the intake manifold.

The first is obvious to the older crowd. We've all used a rotary dial telephone; this is the back side of it. I now know that the second item is an ether dispenser.

#2 is an ether injector. It uses oval shaped plastic balls filled with liquid starting fluid. The spike pierces the ball when you shut the cap and introduces starting fluid into the air intake tubing.

item #1 was a 12” pen recorder used to measure variables such as pressures, fuel flow, vibrations , thrust etc. used in industry

The governor is to get the cadence of the pulses right on the switch contacts shown. The switching though performed by a mechanical mechanism is technically a digital signal as its high/low dependent on the selected number on the dial on the opposite side.

#1 is an Automatic Electric brand telephone dial. The governors were so that the constant speed of the make/break impulses could be properly interpreted by the dial central office.

Number 1 is a school bell . Remember, how it was always took forever when you were waiting for it to ring Number 2 is to add some type of fluid into a machine . The sharp pointy thing was used to puncture the container.

#1 is a dial telephone encoder. #2 looks like an Ink Pot or Ink Bottle attachment for a sealed bottle of ink.

When I was a fill in field installer for the local telephone company I used to tune the speed by massaging the fly weight springs. There was a test number we called which returned beep tones to tell us it was slow or fast. The ring signal return USED to be the third ground wire too. One time I had two of the wires hooked up and then my eyes lit up from the incoming 90v 20hz ring. But the bell didn't sound since the ground wasn't hooked up yet. I handed the lady the receiver and said "it's for you". She looked VERY skeptical as she hesitently said "Hello?...." and I watched her eyes go wide with wonderment and perhaps just a little fear as she looked back at me....

#1 is the circuit interrupter from a dial telephone. The governor is to manage the timing of the pulses required to dial numbers pre-TouchTone. (As a youth, I was able to imitate those pulse timings by rapidly pressing the hang-up buttons with a fingertip.)

#1 washing machine timer. I know that it is not because there are not enough circuits but it is the only thing that I can think of

You got me stumped. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.

You’re one cool dude, Mr. Pete. These are great videos.

I recognized the telephone dial mechanism right away, but it's much different from one I got in about '78. I built mine into a speaker enclosure (which still worked) because I wanted a hidden phone in my room. It had been costed reduced, was mostly plastic, and was probably made over seas.

#1 Rear view of a telephone dial.

Thank you 😊

#2 is an ether injector for a diesel engine. Delivers a measured shot into the air intake.

1. Is a telephone dial mechanism for creating the pulses for dialing numbers.

Rotary phone dialer and an ether starting assist capsule container and punch. It screws into the intake of a diesel engine open the lid insert an ether capsule. When you close lid it punctures the capsule and ether is sucked into the diesel engine to aid in starting.

#1 is a school bell/fire alarm. #2 is an auto grease fitting.

Hello, Mr. Pete. The first item looks like the insides of a dial telephone.

I am old but if I have ever used #1, I don't remember it. Whatever it is, the on/off cycle was quick. The quick install mounting bracket is what throws me. I wonder what liquid was being dispensed into the Gits oiler. Must have been either an aluminum or plastic container that would fit inside and drop its contents into the puncturing tube and cup, not much larger than the cup itself. It is a wonder the cup did not break off from Bubba using it.

I have taken apart a lot of phones but never saw that mechanizm. #2 is for eyedrops.

first one is the guts of a mechanical dial phone. number two is an oiler for compressed air tools

I didn't know until I read the comments below! Now I want to go home and disassemble the old wall phone!

I wasn't immediately sure what #1 was until you ran the mechanism. Once I heard it I knew it was the dial on a telephone, would it have been on a pay phone? I don't recognize the metal framework that has the hanging adaptors so am guessing a pay phone.

Number 1 in innards of a rotary dial phone. Number 2 I can only guess its maybe an overflow from some kind of oil system.

#1 is a impulse dialing mechanism for use on a rotatory dial phone .

Youngsters today would have no idea what no1 is even if you showed the front! And if you told them they'd still have no idea how to use it!

It is used to punch a ether capsule to start diesel engines ,

#1 is mechanism behind a dial telephone. #2 is à mystery to me. Possibly dispensed contents of a small cartridge of lube or additives.

rotory phone mechanism and a either capsule cup for a diesel engine quick start system

#2 is parrt of an esspresso maker, one that uses Nespresso pods.

Pretty sure item #1 is an old telephone dial. Item #2 is unknown, I thought it was an oiler but maybe something for starting an engine in very cold temperatures.

#2 starting Assist

1, Telecom pulse dialer 2, oiler with a Reed valve to limit supply

1..rotary phone dial.. 2 .. IV bottle hookup

#2 ether popper for diesel engines

Rotary dial phone mechanism, I knew a fella had his house connected to his detached shop using old rotary phones as a private intercom. You would dial nine on one of the phones and it would ring the other one nine times or vice versa. Of course it had its own power supply to make it work.

# 2 is an either injector for diesel engines

After some thought and review I came to the same conclusion as the rest 0f the group and number 1 is the back of phone dial.

#1 is a rotary telephone dialer

Item 1 is the back side of a dial telephone; Numer 2 I don't know.

#1 Phone dial, 2 ? But is it made to hold a whole bottle of oil and puncture the lid?

T stat and some sort of oiler

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Door chime and ether dispenser for engine staring fluid?

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#1Time clock

Is item 2 a vent alarm off a fuel oil tank? It whistles as the air from the tank is pushed out when it becomes almost full.

Item 1 is the back of a telephone dail. Item 2 is an oil pot

I miss the days when #1 was prevalent. #2, looks like an oil cup but that is incorrect. To simple.

#2 a starter capsule holder for starter pills for diesel engines before glow plugs

NO 1 = Telephone dial mechanism

#1 An Automatic Electric brand telephone dial mechanism. #2???

1 is a telephone

Hint: #1 was manufactured by Western Electric.

Dial telephone mechanism, bubbler

first one is rotary phone dial

A telephone dialer

Number 1 is a fire alarm, number 2 is so you can stab a quart bottle of oil in for a very thirsty machine.

Internal workings of an old dial telephone?

#1 dial phone

1. Old rotary telephone

#1 dial telephone pulse dial unit @2 It looks like it is intended to take a can or bottle. Stab the seal and let gravity do the rest. Vut that is too obvious, so???

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Old Telephone Mechanical Dialer

#1 = phone dialer?

1 is a telephone dial, amazing piece of mechanics

First to view

Number one is too easy. The dialing mechanism from a rotary phone. Number two is the oiling port for a school administrator’s bullshit factory.

Tubalcain. You wouldn't happen to be a Mason, would you?