What is it

It is a hand crank magneto, most likely from an old telephone:

Old Telephone Magnetos and what you need to know!

It's a very old hand-crank telephone magneto. Here are a couple of pictures of some. None of these are exactly like yours, but you can see the similarities:

http://calpoly.edu/~phys/physdemo/el...t/Gen_mot2.jpg

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x...Generator2.jpg

http://www.petpeoplesplace.com/petst...0505540052.jpg

TK, it's very strange - I often see questions in the EE forum which show zero answers. Then I submit an answer, only to see after the fact that you'd already answered hours earlier (always correctly of course). For some reason it only seems to happen specifically with you! It's a real head-scratcher.

Ty u I had that a long time was going but on eBay and sell but did not now what it was

Jcaron, I think your referring to a delay in my answers showing up. I had brought this issue to admin several times, and I am told there is only a few minutes delay.

Perhaps if you mention it to admin may help.

Yeah, I'll mention it too. That's the third or fourth time I've seen one of your posts delayed by a couple of hours or more.

Please do mention it. Every time I have tried they think I am nuts.