What Is This?

[N2NH]

I have no idea. It looks like it's from the 1960s, and even though I grew up then, I don't have a clue as to what this thing is.
Anyone have any ideas?

11319

[NQ6U]

Looks like a large-scale mock-up of some consumer device but I dunno about your dating it to the Sixties. That seven-segment digital read-out really didn't come along until the Seventies.

[K7SGJ]

Looks like a blonde chick, to me.

[n4aud]

That's a blonde leaning up against a large scale mockup of a handheld device of some sort. If you look at the sliding switch below the meter with digits, there's a human stick figure. One of the symbols below that looks like a horseshoe magnet to me. It has a point like a pen or needle, maybe a medical device??? Some sort of syringe perhaps? I'm guessing it's large scale. If that's the actual size, I dunno.

[N7YA]

No matter what it is, im guessing it wont fit. :shock:

[W7XF]

A muffler bearing test unit??

[KK4AMI]

Alien and anal probe!

Really big Blood Glucose Meter?

[W9JEF]

A temperature controlled soldering tool?
(Set on 970 degrees F?)

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What is THIS?

http://vacuumcoating.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/AVSShowBLOG.jpg

[KK4AMI]

Too easy. THey are for sale all over ebay.

ALICAT Scientific Pressure Controller Mass Flow

[W9JEF]

http://www.coretechint.com/upload/product/19/photo/4e4a4af89c934.jpg

[W9JEF]

http://www.sciencenewsline.com/news/images/2013111300230007.jpg

[n2ize]

Looks like a large-scale mock-up of some consumer device but I dunno about your dating it to the Sixties. That seven-segment digital read-out really didn't come along until the Seventies.

They did have Nixie tubes back in the 1960's however, which did look quite similar and were segmented.

[W9JEF]

They did have Nixie tubes back in the 1960's however, which did look quite similar and were segmented.

https://forums.hamisland.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=11319&d=1388279526
The figs look too close to each other to be nixie tubes. :)


http://www.tubeclockdb.com/images/stories/2012/modular-vfd/vfdclock-shields-1.jpg

[KG4CGC]

I have no idea. It looks like it's from the 1960s, and even though I grew up then, I don't have a clue as to what this thing is.
Anyone have any ideas?

11319

It's a product display of a portable voltage and resistance probe for use in the field. It would sit on a charging station and could be thrown in the toolbox when needed.

[NQ6U]

http://www.coretechint.com/upload/product/19/photo/4e4a4af89c934.jpg

Easy—that's an ion gun.

[NQ6U]

http://www.sciencenewsline.com/news/images/2013111300230007.jpg

And that's a tokamak, an experimental nuclear fusion reactor.

[NQ6U]

They did have Nixie tubes back in the 1960's however, which did look quite similar and were segmented.

Good point, but Nixie tube are fairly large, relatively high-voltage devices and this appears to be a mockup of a handheld unit of some sort. It seems unlikely that the builder would have been able to use them.

[K7SGJ]

No matter what it is, im guessing it wont fit. :shock:

I don't know, I went to school with a girl that...........well...........ah...........never mind.

[AC8KF WALT]

women looked more wifey back then.

[N7YA]

I don't know, I went to school with a girl that...........well...........ah...........never mind.


Yeah, i know, i dated her too....im in a band, remember? :snicker:

[kb2vxa]

An electrical sausage stuffer? A remote controlled telemetric high pressure enema? Something invented by Cartman to un-Jewify Kyle?

[VE7DCW]

And that's a tokamak, an experimental nuclear fusion reactor.

I thought it was a tokamak to deal with any tertiary subspace anomaly a star ship may encounter? :chin:

[NQ6U]

I thought it was a tokamak to deal with any tertiary subspace anomaly a star ship may encounter? :chin:

We'uns don't take kindly to subspace anomalies in this here universe, stranger.

[K7SGJ]

We'uns don't take kindly to subspace anomalies in this here universe, stranger.


The last one I remember got its ass kicked all the way to Toronto, and then had its name changed to Rob Ford, at which point it started abusing crack and round bacon.

[NA4BH]

The round bacon will do it every time.

[NQ6U]

The round bacon will do it every time.

Wait until you spend a Saturday night in West Lynn, MB, one of those wild Canadian border towns. People come there from all over North Dakota to get hopped up on back bacon and poutine and take in the donkey show.

[NA4BH]

You mentioned the donkey a couple of times. An "Old friend"?

[NQ6U]

You mentioned the donkey a couple of times. An "Old friend"?

Back in my OTR trucking days, I picked up a cross-border load in West Lynn, MB. It was so much the polar opposite of Tijuana in the old days (i.e., dull as dishwater) that I started making up salacious stories about the place. It just cried out to be done.

11321

[NA4BH]

Back in my OTR trucking days, I picked up a cross-border load in West Lynn, MB. It was so much the polar opposite of Tijuana in the old days (i.e., dull as dishwater) that I started making up salacious stories about the place. It just cried out to be done.

11321

What you do behind closed doors is just fine with me. What was the donkeys name?

[NQ6U]

What you do behind closed doors is just fine with me. What was the donkeys name?

She said it was "Starr" but I don't think that was her real name.

[NA4BH]

She said it was "Starr" but I don't think that was her real name.

So that's the meaning behind Gerry Rafferty's song:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1MrZb1Zryo

Who gnu?

[K7SGJ]

What you do behind closed doors is just fine with me. What was the donkeys name?

Eunass

[N2NH]

Thanks to all who replied ( I thought it was some sort of female sex aid). :lol:
I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one stumped by this.

And this particular model (the mockup) does look like it has nixies to me too.

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[kb2vxa]

Nixon tubes made in Nixon, Edison Twp., NJ and one grew up to be a segmented president, just add 100VDC, some driver transistors, and anything can happen.

[n2ize]

Good point, but Nixie tube are fairly large, relatively high-voltage devices and this appears to be a mockup of a handheld unit of some sort. It seems unlikely that the builder would have been able to use them.

Not all nixie tubes are large. In fact I have seen some that are pretty tiny. In fact I have to remind myself to jump on ebay and buy a few of them sometime soon. I would like to build a nixie clock or some other nixie counting device.

[n2ize]

women looked more wifey back then.

She looks like she's wearing the "mod look" of the mid 1960's. Actually I like women's styles of the 1930's - 1950's. Very enticing compared to today. I said styles...LOL.

[N2NH]

She looks like she's wearing the "mod look" of the mid 1960's. Actually I like women's styles of the 1930's - 1950's. Very enticing compared to today. I said styles...LOL.

What I find best about that picture is that she is not a skeleton. They used a woman with curves to showcase their product. Heck, they used to call Cher an Ironing Board she seemed so skinny back then (in the 60s). A look at how she looks today will show she would be called fat by today's rediculous standards.

[n2ize]

What I find best about that picture is that she is not a skeleton. They used a woman with curves to showcase their product. Heck, they used to call Cher an Ironing Board she seemed so skinny back then (in the 60s). A look at how she looks today will show she would be called fat by today's rediculous standards.

Remember Twiggy ? As thin as she was In her prime she might be considered too fat by today's standards.... In fact a few years ago she spoke out against the extremes that some women are taking things to these days. It's one thing to be slender and/or petite in stature. It's another to be anorexic and emaciated.

As far as womens styles go I particularly like the 1940's - mid 1950's best. The hair styles, clothing, etc. was both tasteful, stylish and classy.. Hah... I said "style" again...LOL. And "tasteful".

[kb2vxa]

"Not all nixie tubes are large. In fact I have seen some that are pretty tiny."

Most are 7 pin miniature tubes like in my Yeasu YC-355D frequency counter. The good part of it is calibration is easy. I soldered a short piece of coax to the metal shell of the 10MHz crystal, the other end to a BNC connector on the back. Then sticking a small screwdriver through a hole I drilled in the case over the trimmer cap I can zero beat WWV during the silent period just before the ID and time announcement. Since it's temperature sensitive it's done with the case on after a suitable warmup period.

With nixies, even solid state real radios (and frequency counters) glow in the dark.

[W9JEF]

.


.I have a counter that uses 6 nixies; made by Aries, Inc., of Peabody Mass.

One of these days. I'll get my HW-100 back on the air;

hope to modify the above as a direct frequency readout.

[kb2vxa]

Never irreversibly modify a classic unless you want to greatly reduce its value. If you want accuracy use a counter.

[W9JEF]

Never irreversibly modify a classic unless you want to greatly reduce its value. If you want accuracy use a counter.

The idea was to modify the counter (to add or subtract as needed)

to provide an accurate digital freq readout. :)

I bought the HW-100, including AC supply & speaker assembly,

back in the 80's at a local hamfest for $50.

I added a trimmer to adjust the carrier to a better spot in the passband.

It already had one mod, which actually increased its value to me.

Someone had replaced that terrible "Harmonic Drive"

with a nice, smooth, two-speed vernier knob.

(Apologies to da Pope) ;)

[n2ize]

"Not all nixie tubes are large. In fact I have seen some that are pretty tiny."

Most are 7 pin miniature tubes like in my Yeasu YC-355D frequency counter. The good part of it is calibration is easy. I soldered a short piece of coax to the metal shell of the 10MHz crystal, the other end to a BNC connector on the back. Then sticking a small screwdriver through a hole I drilled in the case over the trimmer cap I can zero beat WWV during the silent period just before the ID and time announcement. Since it's temperature sensitive it's done with the case on after a suitable warmup period.

With nixies, even solid state real radios (and frequency counters) glow in the dark.

Yeah, but you can't beat the glow of some 811's or 4-400's or a few mercury vapour rectifiers and voltage regulators. Add to that a few radium painted dials and you've got a classic.

[K0RGR]

That is a multimeter. The symbols appear to be V-, V~ and an Omega, for DC volts, AC volts, and Ohms. Notice the probe sticking out the top of the thing. It looks like one that was fairly common many years ago, that I think was HP's, in which case the display would be LED's. I don't understand the slide switch with the walking man symbol, or the long slide switch on the handle. Ah, there it is, I found it:
http://www.decodesystems.com/hp970a-cover-m.gif

[W9JEF]

What I find best about that picture is that she is not a skeleton. They used a woman with curves to showcase their product. Heck, they used to call Cher an Ironing Board she seemed so skinny back then (in the 60s). A look at how she looks today will show she would be called fat by today's rediculous standards.

Watched Some Like it Hot on Tulsa's OETA channel last night.

Marilyn Monroe whom one could call "voluptuous"
looked downright fat (by today's standards) in some scenes.

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Spied a hallicrafters S-20R ...odd for a 1939 rcvr

to show up in a movie whose setting was 1929.

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http://glowbugs.conus.info/post/1209100296/some-like-it-hot-hallicrafters-model-s-20r-sky

[kb2vxa]

"The idea was to modify the counter (to add or subtract as needed) to provide an accurate digital freq readout."
Well, you could do that and pick off the receive VFO output through a small "gimmick" capacitor, but frankly I don't know how to go about modifying the counter. One that uses TTL dividers like my Yeasu classic could be fairly easily modified by bypassing some chips I suppose.

"Yeah, but you can't beat the glow of some 811's or 4-400's or a few mercury vapour rectifiers and voltage regulators."
I agree, I see plenty of those as avatars on AM Fone, mine is a pair of 4-250s. I've seen that real radios glow in the dark phrase everywhere but some clever person's tag line is; 12V is for wimps, real radios can kill you.

"Add to that a few radium painted dials and you've got a classic."
Maybe so, but they lost their glow a long time ago but they still drive a Geiger counter wild.

As an aside, radios having them these days, particularly mil surplus from before the military started grinding them to dust are hard to find. I haven't checked lately, but a while back Fair Radio was selling "demilitarized" R-390s and related receivers with the meters removed. That left us with little choice but to replace the RF dB meter with an S meter and the audio dB meter with a VU meter. If that doesn't look crappy I don't know crappy. The only way to get one intact is from someone who obtained it before that crap started, that's how Phil K2PG got two as gifts much to my amazement. I using the Signal Corps manual restored them, easy since they were in very good condition and everything but the front end protection relay was working perfectly. The reason for that relay is when "mobile" the radio truck uses separate whips for transmit and receive. Anyway, I found out the ballast tube to stabilize the first oscillator and mixer for mobile operation is extremely rare and the few available are horribly expensive so I made an easily reversible mod to the rig. I replaced the tubes with 6V heaters to 12V ones (they're wired in series along with the ballast), put the ballast tube in a drawer and after making up a shorting plug out of a 7 pin plug with cap I put it in the socket. The only irreversible mod is replacing the selenium stack for the relay (never knew they went bad with age before) with silicon diodes in a bridge configuration. Nobody will notice, they're squirreled away under the power transformer module out of sight, out of mind. You wouldn't want another likely gone bad selenium stack they don't make anymore now do you?

It's the best AM receiver I ever operated but leaves something to be desired for CW. Being made before receivers had product detectors BFO injection was weak so I had to run the audio gain full up and use the RF gain as a volume control for CW and SSB reception. Naturally this killed the AGC. This worked rather well until a weaker signal came along and I had to turn it up. Then without fail a bone crusher came on and blasted my ears off. So much for CW/SSB reception on the R-390, but not for Phil, it's part of his AM station and he uses a Drake TR-7 for CW, he rarely uses SSB. The R-390's RTTY adapter has a product detector but being rare as hen's teeth and being made 90% out of unobtainium I have no idea of it's use for receiving CW and SSB.

Oh, the RTTY adapter doesn't have radium dials. Who ever heard of mobile RTTY in the dark where you can't read the copy? No comments from the peanut gallery, they didn't have PCs with sound cards and glow in the dark monitors in those days, only teleprinters my friend. (;->)

[NQ6U]

That is a multimeter. The symbols appear to be V-, V~ and an Omega, for DC volts, AC volts, and Ohms. Notice the probe sticking out the top of the thing. It looks like one that was fairly common many years ago, that I think was HP's, in which case the display would be LED's. I don't understand the slide switch with the walking man symbol, or the long slide switch on the handle. Ah, there it is, I found it:
http://www.decodesystems.com/hp970a-cover-m.gif

Nice job. And, BTW, as I suggested it came out in 1973, not in the Sixties. Here's a link to an article about it in CQ Magazine (http://www.decodesystems.com/hp970a-cq-oct73.html). By the way, the "walking man" switch inverts the display so you don't have to try and read it upside down.

[kb2vxa]

"Spied a hallicrafters S-20R ...odd for a 1939 rcvr to show up in a movie whose setting was 1929."

Not so odd for a prop man who just grabs any old boat anchor. Now if it was an Icom, THAT would be odd. I saw one of those 1950s post atomic war movies with a ham to the rescue, not unusual. Unusual was the "transceiver", a receiver with a mic plugged in the headphone jack. It happens every day in Hollywood, a neighborhood in the city of tarnished angels, Los Angeles lovingly called La La Land in La La County.

[N7YA]

Marilyn's shape in that picture looks just fine to me...its just that i never found her to be this alluring sexpot that i MUST fantasize about. Not my style. However, some of her views were spot on.


And that guy needs to get his damn feet off the gear!

[N2NH]

That is a multimeter. The symbols appear to be V-, V~ and an Omega, for DC volts, AC volts, and Ohms. Notice the probe sticking out the top of the thing. It looks like one that was fairly common many years ago, that I think was HP's, in which case the display would be LED's. I don't understand the slide switch with the walking man symbol, or the long slide switch on the handle. Ah, there it is, I found it:
http://www.decodesystems.com/hp970a-cover-m.gif

KEWL!

That thing is so 60s/70s modern, I was really beginning to doubt if it really ever did anything.

Maybe the mods should move this to one of the tech areas? It'd be a rare contribution by me. :lol:

[kb2vxa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOhnrjdYOc

[N2NH]

Here's a story from the HP Journal of Nov., 1973 on the Volt-Ohmmeter (a/k/a an early handheld DMM).

LINK to HP PDF. (http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/1973-11.pdf)

[KG4CGC]

Oh, you wanted the model number? It's an HP 970A by Hewlett Packard.

[N2NH]

Oh, you wanted the model number? It's an HP 970A by Hewlett Packard.
Thank you anyways. Was looking on eBay to see what one of these cost. It was $270 for a HP-970A in '73. Unless the tech had small hands, it wasn't as small as it looks...

[kb2vxa]

"Here's a story from the HP Journal of Nov., 1973 on the Volt-Ohmmeter (a/k/a an early handheld DMM)."

OK, but wouldn't a logic probe be appropriate on a TTL logic board? The guy with the 'scope has the proper tool but he's not using it. Well, who ever said ads were intelligent?