See if you can guees what this is. My friend at work found it in his garage.
It´s car related.



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Rheostat for interior lighting?

an idea of scale would be nice.

but it looks like a rotary knob to me

volume knob for a retro car stereo .

doesnt go to 11 tho .

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Originally posted by ned
an idea of scale would be nice.

but it looks like a rotary knob to me

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Brake bias valve??

A metered pepper grinder?

1950's NOS timer

i rekon volume knob too

speed camera flash counter.

Not anything to do with stereo . But it can be sound related.

Perhaps youre all to young in this forum

Air horn melody selector...

I'm hoping its a selector for the 'number of swedish women to visit your hotel bedroom'

But it's probably a selector for the window wipers or something stupid :-(

[Edited on 20/4/06 by muzchap]

shielded variable cap?

A photo of the back please or does that give the whole game away?

Could it be a hoodgiecapive

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A photo of the back please or does that give the whole game away?

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some kinda air regulator for air horns, or a speed control for old pnumatic wipers?

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steve

back of thing

bACK OF THING

I'd go for the wiper speed control as well, probably a rheostat.

Sorry, not for the wiper, horns or getting swedish women to the room....

A combination lock that controls the cars ignition??

But I don't see how its sound related?

[Edited on 21/4/06 by PaulBuz]

And we have a winner
PaulBuz was correct.

It is a combination lock for the ignition.
You turn to the correct number first to the right and then to the left. After that you can start the car.
If you don´t have the correct numbers and still try. A signal will go to the horn if you try to start the car. A simple alarm
We´re not sure when it´s produced, but it looks like early 60´s.

The patent for it was granted on Oct 25 1966