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ReCycle

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First hello to everyone out there! I'm new to the forum & this is my first post... I have a small custom motorcycle shop & do powdercoating/fabrication etc for the local dealerships etc...
I had a customer bring me this with a deer in the headlights look... Well... Now I have that same look...
This device was made by boroughs tool & equipment company of Kalamazoo MI. They are defunct now & I have searched numerous times on the Internet & can find nothing on this... It has no part # or other identifying marks on it, and obviously had no instructions etc.. I'm a machinist, mechanic, & pretty good at figuring out most things, but I'm dumbfounded... The gauge is completely separated from the connections you can hold it in your hand like a compus. There is no scale or graduations on the gauge face... Simply an arrow on each side. The connections are simply alligator clips connected to a thermal fuse so it obviously needs to be placed in line either on a pos or neg connection... The needle on the gauge does move if I place it next to a battery, but without some type of scale on the gauge face why would you need it? It wouldn't give you any definable information??? HELP!! Lol.
I'm trying to post pictures, but it won't let me from my iPhone... If anyone know how to post pictures here with an iPhone please let me know!! I'll post pictures using a computer tonight... Or I can email them to anyone I interested... Thank you all in advance!!
 
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454ragtop

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Flux capacitor? Picture problem might be because it was your first post, some boards are like that. Don't know if this one is.
Jim
 

andywander

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"sounds" like a device for magnetically determining the presence and direction of current flow in a nearby conductor.

Pics would help.
 
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Tunger

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Sounds somewhat like an old school short finder or ammeter, get some pics up and we will be of more help.
 

Tunger

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Reread the post and it is for sure a short finder. If you have a dead short you replace the fuse with the automatic resetting circuit breaker, and move the gauge along the affected circuit until the needle points straight at the harness, wire or component and voila there is your short. Can be easily made also with a compass.
 
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