[BC] A new Whatzit?

[JYRussell@academicplanet.com]

the material the loop and base are made of?? (Looks a little like brass or 
bronze in the pics, to me... how much does it weigh??) Would brass help, or 
hinder DF ?

   what if there were another ring inside this one... any outputs to that?

   Is that a pulley partway up the center??

   My mech skills tell me that even "back in the day" - nobody would go to 
the time and expense of using three screw to level / plumb the thing unles 
they really needed to...   So I wonder why they did it.  the points are used 
rather than pads because they "get down through all the junk" and are more 
reliable...

 I can't help but think there was another loop inside the large one, 
probably 90 degrees to the first... or at least at a different angle to the 
first...

   and I cant help but notice all the screws (?) around the circumference of 
the vertical support.   If they hold it still from spinning, that's one 
thing, but if they hold a bearing or a race, it means the accuracy of the 
swing was more important than just DF work... or... it was run by something 
other than a crank at the bottom (like the old DF trucks from the movies had 
a crank... )


   I wonder if this was partly gimbal to hold and feed something else... 
which isn't in the picture...
  Jason
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> I wish I could give you a make and model, but there is nothing like this 
> on
> the Whatzit.  There is however, several connecting posts located near the
> bottom label "A" through "H". "A" is the common post and "B" through "H" 
> are
> tap points for a coil of wire looping around the circumference of the 
> ring.
> "H" indicates there are a total of 105 turns.  The coil is made of green,
> cotton, insulated, magnet wire, gauge unknown.
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> I too, believe it is some sort of RDF antenna, but what kind and where it
> came from are a mystery.  Each of the three legs comes to a point that is
> itself an adjustable screw to adjust the level of the loop.  The design
> leads me to believe there is a missing base plate of some sort as I see no
> way of keeping the base from moving while trying to adjust the direction 
> of
> the loop.
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> There also appears to be something missing, inside, at the bottom of the
> loop.  There is a finely threaded mount, approximately 1/2" in diameter by
> 1/2" long, that looks like something else should mount there.
>
> I came by this piece while cleaning out one of the supply closets at our
> remote studio in a theme park.  No one knows where it came from or how it
> got there.
>
> Dan
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> Perhaps someone knows the make and model of this item?
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> www.oldradio.com/pic1.jpg
> www.oldradio.com/pic2.jpg
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