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Maybe a de-charger? Or is it?
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all but certain it is

wouldn't trust it as far as I could throw it, but might be a good core for a rebuild.

At 36 volts DC, worse that could happen is smoke maybe a little heat and flame!

It was probably meant for recharging external magneto magnets. A really neat piece that should be preserved as an example of how things were serviced back in the day.
My dad made a recharging coil pair when we rebuilt the DU4 for my first speedster way back when. Personally, I would hesitate to try using this one for servicing. It would be too likely and a shame to burn up the coils.It could be carefully checked out first. Maybe one could determine it would be safe to use.

Magnet charger as Wayne eluded to - nice one too !

I don’t know what everyone else has against it. My guess is it would work just fine with a 12 volt battery hooked to the two terminals and close the switch. If it doesn’t have continuity check the connections. Worst case rewind it. I’m quite sure the laminated metal core can be easily disassembled and the winding can be easily redone. I’ve done lots of things like this over the years

Les,

The world is filling up fast with non-thinkers. A couple years ago a City inspector about shat
himself when he saw the wiring in my shop. It is largely salvaged from 1900-era powerhouses,
capable of handling massive power loads, but to this book-centric moron, it was nothing but
Frankenstein's laboratory, ready to explode at any moment. No amount of showing him load
ratings, versus how light the current power load is would budge him off his freak out. I had to
take it up the chain to his superiors to put a clamp on this clown's inability to think outside the
book. And to think, this guy is a "paid professional", ... paid by MY tax dollars to not understand
a single thing outside his holy code book. Everything else is "dangerous".

I have to say those “paid professionals” are sometimes educated idiots. Or as some would say self appointed geniuses. They are a lot of those out there.

Gorgeous little magnet charger! $100 bucks? Oh yeah and worse sometimes.
And a Niehoff to boot!
If the windings are still good, plop a magneto magnet on there, hook it up to 36 volts, give the magnet a bunch of short jolts, maybe even tapping the magnet top with a wooden hammer HANDLE while jolting it, slide a steel keeper to the bottom as you remove the magnet from the charger and you're Bob's uncle! Angle the magnet when putting it back on the mag so you can slide the keeper along the bottom and up the side as you go.
Then get the angled adapters for model T magnets and you're Bob's uncle again!
2 little pennys.