Victorian lady pleaser?

There ought to be a place where you could borrow a sex toy for free to see if you like it enough to buy it. You'd check it out for 48 hours and have fines for late returns. I think we should call it a VIBRAry!

I ordered that GE one to compare them.

Big Clive

I try to fit a few in, but unfortunately YouTube does not understand double entendres and sometimes demonetises the video.

Big Clive

How many double entendre's can you get in one video?

And the thread was made of ... ?

Mike Page

It does look very similar, but not quite identical. I wonder if it's just a slight manufacturing variant or a clone.

Big Clive

For antique vibrations? Appropriate given SF's earthquakes.

Mike Page

Clive's appears very similar to a General Electric Company product recommended on that page.

Mike Page

I'd guess just thread woven around the wires in the early era. I'm not sure there would have been any flexible insulator underneath.

Big Clive

Sorry. No-one says Arnold and I don't think of Rimmer.

Mike Page

Something old and plant-based, that's my guess. (At least the vegans would be happy.) I saw a display of underwater cables at some museum (Berlin Technikmuseum probably). These typically date to the mid-19th century, are 99% about mechanical strength and quite Heath Robinson. But absolutely essential to push things forward. Imagine having to wait weeks for a letter then suddenly a telegram arrives in minutes!

Mike Page

If you are ever in San Francisco you could visit the Vibrator Museum , there website is http://www.antiquevibratormuseum.com/

RICHARD OCKMAN

I had just ordered some retro-look cable (three core) for this unit and decided on burgundy as being the most likely colour of that era. It looks like I was right.

Big Clive

Yeah, it's been spliced in. I've ordered some new retro burgundy-coloured three core fabric insulated wire to retrofit it with something more appropriate. I wonder what the original cable was.

Big Clive

There is something similar on ebay dated 1914. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134620339365?hash=item1f57ff5ca5:g:AuwAAOSwcRBkamDM&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0GPaMa64Haz%2BaVDJJaJg%2B58J6hrVJeSTRpwrGZ1htlK1q3OBt4ZSc19fFVZHZK344g1QE5YTSgx8qHivNUpxMnHwdkPWmiE0Qp9ajc%2FGnNYs4j0qCAT3HW%2BWhdP0uPrFTVaZgqMhMYuyXea%2BlwsLTnbFUt1Pn5eGFzIk2vaqfIaKTQKlSj1i0pGmhQyq148DQwY%2BPtfK2mMnQNTnMcpTtAoxWmJCRlnTJQtUL9xc3R0qHamnOi0vi6FLRgV3hMHeskRKvAMLuRDyJy5I5vdPAoY%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9zWu6qgYg

Mike Hanley

And with that, Clive releases a century-old venereal infection on an unprepared world.

Russell Levine

An eccentric shaft... ooh err missus! 🤣

Kevin Horne

I knew it was a big mistake to go researching google for such contraptions. 😳

Phil in the kitchen

Must have gotten too much use!

Damaged

OG Ltd I wonder if it was short for OmyGod One of my girlfriends said the used to sit on the washing machine in the 1980s in those day they would bounce around the kitchen, today many have auto balancing, or shut down.

John Harrison

Someone's already been in there when the mains lead was changed.

Mike Page

Epic! Lovely castings / drawings.

Mike Page

Sewing machines 1900 or later, plugin in with some concern ; by design most of them are NOT earthed, they are mostly double insulated and Bakelite. One did blow up a 1955 that had a capacitor hidden inside the stator windings, that was loud, I cut it out of circuit and the machine now works well, I guess there might be a bit of RF noise however there is also a capacitor in the foot pedal. Thorn EMI, we made metal cooker hood extractors and they were not earthed as a safety feature. This was so that you would not ground yourself if touching another faulty appliance.

John Harrison

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181107-the-history-of-the-vibrator

Some of those attachments look like they would have been used in the 'chest' area of a body.

NN Thomas

Those Victorians. Sure did enjoy noisy fun-times.

Curtis Hoffmann

I did. I keep doing that.

Big Clive

I won't comment with any word associations my, particular, mind jumps to regarding the title.

Christian Herald

“Explores the handle” that’s what he said!

Michael Gilchrest

Reminds me of the Sears personal massager. https://www.ebay.com/itm/194924703685. Though, the Sears version looks more like a repurposed hand mixer.

Peter Stevens

Perhaps it’s “salvaged” from a medical practitioner of the time. Could be the reason it has extra bits.

James Baverstock

You said concentric shaft, I think you meant an eccentric shaft.

Dennis Smith