Old electrical meters

[jeneje]

Just wondering if these old electicial meters had any pms in them here is a photo.

Thanks

 

[FrugalEE]

High dollar meters there and ones I only occassionally got to use. Probably very tiny amounts of silver in the mirrors. The luxury raw material for these is jeweled bearings. Anything in a wood box I think is sought after by the vintage collectors. I have vintage decade boxes with switches that might have PMs, but I'm sure they are worth more on EBAY.

 

[jeneje]

Thanks Frugal for your insite on these. I am thinking about buying them I can get them for $100.00 I don't know yet but will see.

Thanks again

Ken

 

[Drewbie]

Those are way too nice to destroy.

 

[macfixer01]

I thought I'd seen a shunt board once on Ebay supposedly from some old Simpson VTVM that had some gold on it?

 

[jimdoc]

I thought I'd seen a shunt board once on Ebay supposedly from some old Simpson VTVM that had some gold on it?

I think shunts were made of manganin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganin

I have a few rolls of it.

Jim

 

[Harold_V]

Thanks for that, Jim. In all my years, I'd never heard of Manganin.

Harold