Antique Volt/Amp meter

[m4tty]

Hi,

Been given this which used to be my granddads who was a 'wireman' by trade.

Has anyone seen one of these before and/or know how it works. I believe it has a wire inside attached to a mini croc clip.

Anyone recon it could be worth anything. Im going to keep it and hand it down to my kids well whichever one carries on the trade lol.

Cheers

 

[NozSpark]

It's a DC meter.. Sharp pointy bit on +ve and -ve connects to stud on top,,,, by the look of it?

 

[m4tty]

He also used to do aircraft wiring so may be something to do with that then. Cheers

 

[NozSpark]

I've only seen one of those before in a picture,,

never in the aviation industry, and I have worked on some reasonably old stuff,, Buccaneer was one of the oldest for me

 

[revjames]

Now give it back to Steps.........

 

[mikep]

I would imagine it's for the old lead acid batteries.

Mike.

 

[revjames]

looks like its over due a calibration.....

 

[steptoe]

Now give it back to Steps.........

I wondered why it didnt move when the weather turned bad.........

 

[kerching]

It's a DC meter.. Sharp pointy bit on +ve and -ve connects to stud on top,,,, by the look of it?

Looks like a DC ammeter.....but if it is an Ammeter it should go in series with the cable, so I am guessing that you disconnect the cable in question, connect it to the top stud and then touch the pointy bit on where you disconnected it from...if that makes any sense??? To connect the '+' to one end and the '-' to t'other would be the most likely way of winning a quick 30 minutes one way trip-out with Rev James or one of his 'mates'

I may well be wrong [see wife for details/history]... :coat

 

[NozSpark]

That's exactly what I mean't, although it does look like it has a volts scale

 

[Ali]

I may well be wrong [see wife for details/history]...

:slap :slap:slap

 

[steptoe]

Top scale volts, bottom amps.

Its a bit faded but still readable.

 

[Evans Electric]

Some sort of Battery tester I'd say.

I like to see old electrical gear TBH . I used to have an ancient clip on ammeter , called AVO Tong-TEST I think, great big thing , up to 500 amps .

It was dumped in the great Clear-Out of 1990 .

Although I have modern Steinel type testers I still use the old Drummond set as second tester.

 

[SteveT]

I've only seen one of those before in a picture,, never in the aviation industry, and I have worked on some reasonably old stuff,, Buccaneer was one of the oldest for me

Where's your Buccaneers............................................on the side of your Buccan head!

 

[ProDave]

I've still got a wind up megger in a brown Bakelite case.

(and no I don't still use it, but it would in fact do it's job well if I did)

Perhaps your meter is basically a volt meter (go on, connect it to a 1.5V battery and see) and the Amps scale was for use with a shunt that you could buy for it?

 

[ian932]

I had my suspicions it was an old radio battery tester.