Help identifying strange contraption

[albrecht]

A neighbor lady died and I helped clean out her house and garage. She was a psychic and into past life regressions and astrology. Wrote several books and traveled the world. I found this machine in her garage. No idea what it is for? Any ideas? I'm afraid to plug it in since it might blow up or at least blow out my breakers!

[onan]

A neighbor lady died and I helped clean out her house and garage. She was a psychic and into past life regressions and astrology. Wrote several books and traveled the world. I found this machine in her garage. No idea what it is for? Any ideas? I'm afraid to plug it in since it might blow up or at least blow out my breakers!

It has a fuse, what could go wrong?

[The General]

That's obviously a time machine.
Look at all the years written on it...
2085, 1787, 514, 1867.

Wanna take a ride?

[DanTSX]

Orgone generator

[onan]

Orgone generator

Ahh a Salinger follower.

[Nighthawk]

It's something these people use that have cancer. They believe it will cure cancer. Just a guess. Of course they could be using it on the premise of it curing other illnesses. This is similar to a Rife machine. Sometimes they will even sit around in groups using these devices in the hopes of a cure.

[ChewMouse]

My husband (engineer) said it's likely a klystron tube, probably used for Ham radio. It amplifies the higher frequencies, up into the microwave range. He said it looks very old, which I could've said myself.

So there ya go.

I have no idea what I just typed, it was dictated.

[eddie dean]

I would be very afraid of a device with hand written dial numbers.  Are there any input/output jacks on the back?

[albrecht]

Thanks for the help. I could easily believe any of those answers as she had other machines- like Chi machines and those electrical zappers that supposed to help arthritis and was big into alternative health, past life/reincarnation, and astrology. Wrote books and hung out with some stars back in the day. But this thing is obviously homemade. I was also thinking....doesn't Scientology promote some electric gizmo to help "clear" you?

[eddie dean]

That's obviously a time machine.
Look at all the years written on it...
2085, 1787, 514, 1867.

Wanna take a ride?

I don't think so.
I don't see a flux capacitor.

[lonevoice]

Thanks for the help. I could easily believe any of those answers as she had other machines- like Chi machines and those electrical zappers that supposed to help arthritis and was big into alternative health, past life/reincarnation, and astrology. Wrote books and hung out with some stars back in the day. But this thing is obviously homemade. I was also thinking....doesn't Scientology promote some electric gizmo to help "clear" you?

It really doesn't look like a scientology e-meter.   As you said, it looks to be homemade The cords and plug look new to me, not vintage.  I wonder if it's something the lady just put together herself and created her own explanation for what it is and what it does.   How fun!

[coaster]

It's Jimmy Chunga's spirit box.

[guildnavigator]

I would be very afraid of a device with hand written dial numbers.  Are there any input/output jacks on the back?

duuuude let's run a kick drum through it.

[Cynnie]

Plug it in !!

[Juan]

I agree that it looks like a Klystron tube.  Those tubes are used in UHF-TV and microwave transmission.  It could be some kind of ham radio microwave transmitter.  I can't imagine that it would be any kind of New Age or curative device.  Microwave wouldn't be used for that - plus, I see no waveguides.  It's not complete. Or it could be the device of a medical quack.

[aldousburbank]

A vaporizer.

[ksm32]

A neighbor lady died and I helped clean out her house and garage. She was a psychic and into past life regressions and astrology. Wrote several books and traveled the world. I found this machine in her garage. No idea what it is for? Any ideas? I'm afraid to plug it in since it might blow up or at least blow out my breakers!

How much do you want for it? not kidding, pm me.

[Heather Wade]

It's obviously a ghost trapping machine.  There's a ghost in that globe.  Don't let it out.

[area51drone]

Plug it in !!

That was my thought... fucking plug it in already!

[Unquenchable Angst]

It is an Radionic Computer
It is used to find the "rates" of people and to find "balancing " rates. Basically a decade box of variable capacitors in an analog computer array. There should be a place or means to use a sample  or "witness' of the person, place or thing " to be tested.Radionic Computer a'la Ruth Drown, Abrams and others. There is sometimes a "stick pad" an area covered in latex that changes the tactile sensation when a "stick" or a tuning to the witness occurs. or there is a plate where one uses a pendulum or other "dowsing' type of sensor.
I have built some and 'played' with some myself. whether they work or not I can't say. Some people have success using them. For me they are rather iffy.

[Unquenchable Angst]

woops! It is Rife Machine. Royal Raymond Rife. I did not see the "Plasmatron tube" underneath the control box before I jumped on the radionic message.
http://www.rexresearch.com/rife/rifebeam.htm
http://www.rifedigital.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AysfKyl8O9k -

[Unquenchable Angst]

How much do you want for it?
be careful as there is high voltage that is supplied to the plasmotron tube and also a RF signal that the HV is carried on. The dials tune the frequencies. There is probably a manual or notebook with frequencies used for different things somewhere nearby. Rife was supposed to have destroyed cancer  with one. DO NOT TOUCH THE PLASMOTRON IF YOU MANAGE TO GET IT "LIT". The plasmotron is filled with  Neon, argon, helium or some noble gas or a mixture of them.

[eddie dean]

duuuude let's run a kick drum through it.

HAHA!
Best tube amp EVER!!
The tone will be warm as hell, overdrive it to 11, yo! 

[eddie dean]

A vaporizer.

Is weed all you think about? Reminds me of the SNL skit from the 80's: A hippie shop owner who sells various little trinkets and what-nots. Each item has a secret, or maybe not so secret, compartment.  When the customer asks what the item is for, the hippie says "Dude, You put your weed in there".

[ACE of CLUBS]

Hoagland uses one to beam off the pyramids ....

[Nighthawk]

woops! It is Rife Machine. Royal Raymond Rife. I did not see the "Plasmatron tube" underneath the control box before I jumped on the radionic message.
http://www.rexresearch.com/rife/rifebeam.htm
http://www.rifedigital.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AysfKyl8O9k -

Yea that's what I said. I thought it was similar to a rife machine. They are a pain! they screw up HF radio reception if they are operating near by.

[Nighthawk]

BTW Destroy that thing! it is a pain in the ass. Unless of course you feel it will help with your illness, then I guess I can't hate it too much. However I do HATE those things! It interferes with very important radio transmissions lol

[Juan]

Looking up the plasmatron tube, it doesn't seem to have been put into actual production.  The tubes made for testing were used for audio amplifiers.  The tube in the photo looks more like a klystron tube to me.  Klystrons are transmitter tubes,  and a transmitter tube is what a Rife machine would need to produce frequencies. I'd be very careful with the thing until I understood what frequencies it produced. I'd also be concerned about how much heat it would generate.  Klystron transmitters in TV stations are frequently water cooled.

[aldousburbank]

Whatever you do, don't push the red button!

[Unquenchable Angst]

Rife called them "Phanotron" tubes. Here is a site that makes different ones.

http://billsplasmatubes.com/