Some Really Great and Knowledgeable People on eBay
As is obvious I list a lot of items on eBay, some I’m not sure of what they are so I take a educated guess and put into the category I believe they belong in. Well if I get it wrong I nearly always receive a friendly and informative message from a ebayer telling me what the item in detail is.
I think it’s brilliant this crossing of information and always take it in the right spirit, ebay is truly the font of all knowledge. I just listed what I thought was a timing mechanism of a clocking in and off machine, the devises found in many old factories and some present for timing how long people are at work. Well I was wrong and below is the email I received…
A couple of interesting items you have on offer. However I thought I would let you know that these are actually clockwork timeswitches, as used for operating lighting or or other electrical loads. The “IN” and “OUT” pegs really mean “ON” and “OFF” and would carry out this function once every 24 hours. It may have a manual overide lever too. I think the clock would be a 7 day type with Venner or Horstmann being two of the better known manufacturers. Later types employed a synchronous motor, sometimes with a spring reserve which would keep the clock going if the power failed.
Certainly interesting items in any case. Kind regards, Andrew.
What more could you ask for, you learn something new every day, so I made a slight adjustment to the listing and put it into another category more apt for the devise.
Take a look at the listing on the right hand column and see what you think, it’s already being picked up and should sell fine.
So it just goes to show that ebay is brimming with intelligent and great people, I’ve made a number of new friends and experts in their fields who I appreciate and would never have known if not for the existence of ebay.
