Is it worth picking apart ?

[tsfarley]

Difficult picture to identify.
a friend can pick up this rack , should he for PM possibilities?
old Telcom?
my knowledge only goes back to the T1 channeling era.
thanks for advice.
Tim

 

[anarxi]

down there, the pink ones are strings, ATS switches, maybe silver, or maybe palladium...
Well, in general, it’s all like non-ferrous metals, relays, etc.

the picture itself is not very informative...

 

[BGDOCK]

Yes why not .

 

[GoIdman]

Difficult picture to identify.
a friend can pick up this rack , should he for PM possibilities?
old Telcom?
my knowledge only goes back to the T1 channeling era.
thanks for advice.
Tim

Hi, it looks to me as some sort of power distribution cabinet stuff with a huge transformer and small power supplies in racks....

Not too clear though.....but....the transformer has good copper, connection point have gold plated conacts....can get something out of it, if its free...

Hope this helps...

Pete..

 

[Shark]

Better picture of the full insides would help.

 

[Marcel]

Take it apart.

 

[anachronism]

Yup, go for it. Even the power circuits in this grade of Telecoms gear contain goodies.

 

[Alondro]

I see a few old boards in those slots. Those will absolutely have some good stuff. If it's free, GRAB!!

 

[Shark]

From what I can see, these look a lot like some I had a few years ago. Mine were from a 911 communication center. They were well worth processing. If I recall correctly there were a couple of nice back plane boards buried inside with lots of good quality pins.

 

[scrappappy]

Definitely old Telecom gear.
Those copper wiring blocks at the bottom of the pic were for the old landline POTS plain old telephone service.
The card modules above it were likely some type of T1 multiplexer and probably have PM's
Nice find

 

[haveagojoe]

Potentially a collectable vintage unit in its own right

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[electronicscrap]

Western Electric in particular does have a collector market, the older the better though.
those cards sell on ebay around $10-25
This is a key telephone system; switching gear. there's relay contacts, gold fingers, card connectors
and cable connectors and ends. Was there a discussion of possible PM's in 'Punch-down blocks' '66 blocks'? (bottom of photo)
Built for reliability, so PM's.
Tech was replaced with PBX's, then VOIP gear.
I worked on thousands of those power supplies (remotely) back in the day and they were often reused
when newer tech arrived onsite.
I'm pretty sure it's a linear power supply and I doubt much PM's but maybe those screwed-down fuses.