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    10/10/2013 9:53 AM  #1

    Physics Doc
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    What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    Rummaging through boxes looking for a bracket and found this.  I've always wondered what it is. When I shake it there seems to be something suspended inside that bounces around gently.  If it was a guitar amp part I would say it's a reverb chamber.  It was in the boxes that came with my 69 Grande jigsaw puzzle.

     

    10/10/2013 10:25 AM  #2

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    Re: What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    That's your flux capacitor.  Once you install that time travel should be possible when you hit 88mph.
    The bad news is that you're going to have to find a way to provide it with the 1.21gigawatts necessary for operaton.

    Geez...I would think a Physics Doc would know about these things...

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    10/10/2013 10:58 AM  #3

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    Re: What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    My first guess would be mechanical reverb. If you have a local music store that buys used stuff, maybe they can tell you if it is worth anything. Allot of musicians lke that classic sound.

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    10/10/2013 11:42 AM  #4

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    Re: What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    Michael H. wrote:

    That's your flux capacitor.  Once you install that time travel should be possible when you hit 88mph.
    The bad news is that you're going to have to find a way to provide it with the 1.21gigawatts necessary for operaton.

    Geez...I would think a Physics Doc would know about these things...

    I don't think it's a flux capacitor as they usually looks like this:



    It might be a part used on one of these early hearing aids:





    This guy explains how it works:


     

     

    10/10/2013 12:14 PM  #5

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    Re: What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    Had a motion alarm in 70's looked similar

     

    10/10/2013 12:21 PM  #6

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    Re: What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    It's obviously a linear controller for a Zortman cantilever lifting wedge.
    You guys should have known.

     

    10/10/2013 12:46 PM  #7

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    Re: What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    Motion detector for old alarm system. I had one back in the late 70's

     

    10/10/2013 1:10 PM  #8

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    Re: What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    whlnut wrote:

    It's obviously a linear controller for a Zortman cantilever lifting wedge.
    You guys should have known.

    No, no, no.   That's the crinellimoffin from a veblefetzer...only that one is obviously cravinoid.
     

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    10/10/2013 1:12 PM  #9

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    Re: What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    Hakan wrote:

    Michael H. wrote:

    That's your flux capacitor.  Once you install that time travel should be possible when you hit 88mph.
    The bad news is that you're going to have to find a way to provide it with the 1.21gigawatts necessary for operaton.

    Geez...I would think a Physics Doc would know about these things...

    I don't think it's a flux capacitor as they usually looks like this:



     

    Hakan,
    I can understand your confusion.  That is what they looked like from around 1986 and up, but keep in mind this is a late 60's or possibly early 70's model... before they went to a solid state design.

     

    10/10/2013 2:28 PM  #10

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    I bet the guys from American Pickers would know.

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    10/10/2013 2:55 PM  #11

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    I know the guessing is fun, but I will break up the mystery.   What you guys should know is you can always find one on ebay 88% of the time!

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/AUDIOVOX-MOTION-DETECTOR-FOR-MOBIL-SECURITY-SYSTEM-CAR-ALARM/231069655861?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D17824%26meid%3D1892154830750276979%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D8234%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D261300753833%26

    now you even have a part #

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    10/10/2013 3:36 PM  #12

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    Brilliant! So now, using this, I can set it for parking on an incline. Then if I park on level ground at someone elses home, I shouldn't set the alarm...(not that I would use this).  Mystery solved.  Maybe I'll use it for a racoon alarm on a trash can.

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    10/10/2013 5:28 PM  #13

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    Well, that was FUN.
    That was new for me and I'm a real old guy
    Howard
     

     

    10/10/2013 7:55 PM  #14

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    Re: What is this? Is it antique or junk?

    WOW!  you guy's are good, all in one day. I had one of those once that had been installed on a 66 Galaxy 500 that I married. I loaned the car to my brother once and all of a sudden it quit. Some how he discovered if he left the left turn signal on the car would run. After a lot of wiring head scratching, I discovered that the alarm/ignition inhibit had been wired improperly and the car had quit because of a blown fuse and the circuit only was back fed through the turn signal circuit. I still haven't figured out my borther, but that is for another forum.

     

    10/10/2013 9:08 PM  #15

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    I also forgot to mention if you go to that auction I posted and save the second picture, you also have directions  

    If multiple things can go wrong, the one that will go wrong will be the one that causes the most damage.
     

     

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