Home made electric poker machine

Production date
1956
Description
Home made electric poker machine working at 4.5volts at 6.5 Amps. Made from bakelite offcut with brass nuts and bolts attached to blue and orange plastic coated electrical wire with shaped burning wire extending from one end of offcut. Used by Neil Sandford to burn his name on wood and leather equipment. Powered from spare transformer, adjusted to red heat with Variac variable transformer at Scott Base.
See full details

Object Detail


Collecting unit
Measurements
Dimensions L x W: whole: 90 x 30mm
Length: 400mm
Associated person
Associated place
Other id
1336
Accession number
2009.38.5

Colours


Share

Comments

Can you add to our information about this item? Click Add Comment to share your knowledge and help enrich our collection. Have a question about this item? Please email info@canterburymuseum.com.


Be the first to comment.



To order a copy of this image please contact Canterbury Museum images@canterburymuseum.com

Unless otherwise stated, or an author is acknowledged, Canterbury Museum holds copyright to all information on Collections Online. All efforts have been made to trace copyright holders. Please contact the Museum with any queries on this matter info@canterburymuseum.com

The information on this page was created from historic documentation and may not reflect the best available knowledge about the item. If you have information or questions about the objects on this website, please contact us. Images may be subject to copyright laws and are therefore not of reproduction quality.