Can anyone identify this?

am i the only one who thinks about putting a ruler into a photo of something i'd like to have identified?  frankly a less glossy background with better focus wouldn't be a bad idea either.

Looks like drive shaft to me.

AG.

Sorry about that -- a better picture has been added so you can actually see what I'm talking about!!!

 

I also added the ruler as per overlandflyer's suggestion.  Thanks!

Looks like a shipping spacer block.  Remove after install? 

Just guessing, looks like a tool to install a snap ring or something and reverse it to uninstall?

franktrain 

From my mobile device, I see lettering that says remove/ install so the last poster maybe right that it's a tool.

What type of Allen-Bradley devices do you have for train use?

 

It has the AB logo on it. I can't tell you which one it would fit in, but it appears to be a removable jumper or connector. Notice the metal ends exhibiting some surface rust.

 

A relay, fuse holder, circuit breaker? Is there a part # on the other side in the center?

Could it be a wrench to reach a potentiometer on a circuit board?

 

Brad

I know  nothing!

I can see this: <= Remove.       Install =>

Zooming in

much better pictures...  my guess is that it is part of a tool.  maybe something like a punch tool for a matrixed plug or wire panel.  the ends are different and the removal side looks a bit wider which might serve to spread or collar a pin or when flipped around would insert/ seat a pin or wire.

 

...or it's something completely different.

 

cheers...gary

Being an ex-Allen-Bradley employee, I will say with 90% certainty that the tool shown in the photo is for installing and removing T1.75 slide-based lamps in 16 and 22 millimeter industrial pilot light assemblies. The "install" end simply aligns the bulb so it may be pressed straight in. The "remove" end is pressed over and grasps the outside of the bulb allowing you to pull it straight out. Might indeed have some model railroad application, but was never sold for that purpose

 

That is a very old unit, the newer version is just a piece of small plastic tubing that snugly fits the lamps, the "install" end of those is split so it cannot grab the bulb.

PLC Prof- Chicken Dinner!

 

 

 

Model train pack-ratting-"I know I can use this for some project"...in the box it goes.

Thanks to all for the replies and especially to PLCProf for what seems to be the right answer.  Now that I know they're not train related, they went in the trash.  I'm too much of a Model train pack-rat as it is!!!

 

So many projects and parts, so little time...

 

Thanks for helping me solve it -- didn't want trash them if they were of use in the hobby.

Its called a "thimamajig"