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Puzzle Series: What is this, or what do you want it to be?
Update: Detailed answer below
19 responses to “What’s That? (102)”
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I want it to be a piece of J.C. Bose’s terahertz experiments, but it’s far too modern looking for that.
But that chimney looks like a vacuum chamber side arm, and those might be heater connections, and the ends might be windows, so I’m going with "prototype rubidium cell."
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My guess is some sort of pump for cryogenic fluids or maybe monopropelant like hydrazine. The Winchester Electric connector is likely a connector for an electric motor. Winchester was a leader back in 1935 in providing electric motors. The spring loaded screws appear to be calibration screws. The nippled connector is for some sort of tubing perhaps a supply line. The flanges suggest an input and output flow stream.
My 2 cents
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Could also be a control valve with a pneumatic actuator that is electrically controlled. Maybe a flow controller actuator but no electric motor but pneumatica
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Well, looks like some alignment screws, maybe some metal lens holders (with alignment screws) at either end of the block. Electrical connection for maybe internal target illumination, or maybe a gyro device. So I’ll give a WAG that it some sort of instrument from Mercury or Gemini (maybe Apollo, but the connector looks older). But with my track record with these puzzles, probably not… 😎
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Some sort of flow meter…
The top part looks like a takeoff port for a sensor/hose..
Its tunable…and overbuilt looking
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"Air Bearing Pendulum. Rare part of an inertial guidance system from a U.S. Army ballistic missile, 2¾"x2"x1½" stainless steel with numbers ‘CG-328’ & ‘8083800’ on one side. This Air Bearing Pendulum would be fastened to a stabilized platform along with the internal gimbals, air-bearing gyroscopes and accelerometers." (All merits for google)
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pury]
Impressive…1) Can you expand on what an "ABP" is….?..how it works..?
(I think Goddard used something similar in the 30’s…movable graphite vanes etc,… so that’s kind of amazing to think it worked (?)
2)What search led to this.?
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heh, good idea.
Bingo [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pury] ! and [http://www.flickr.com/photos/pegleg000] for guessing the rocketry era. You guys are too good. I worried a bit about the ID tags, but when I googled, it thought 803-3800 was a phone number.
This is a cool little widget that helps those ballistic missiles come knocking on your door. I have a primer on it from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, 1960. I’ll grab some images from that to share.
At that time: "although inertial guidance systems have been greatly improved in the past few years, much work remains to be done if adequate guidance is to be provided for the exploration of outer space. Present systems can only provide guidance for a relatively short distance. New concepts in guidance instrumentation may have to be developed." (iii)
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveh56] – Here is a diagram, with the inner details:
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Interesting info,thanks.
…creepy a bit.
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I started with the connector. Winchester has been in the connector business since 1941, but that brown phenolic reminds me of a late 1940s phonograph I used to have. The first google result on the "phone number" for me was JC’s Junk Cars in Haines City, Florida, so I was going to guess this was a part from an early failed attempt at a car radio that also plays 78s. But I see the rest of you are way ahead of me.
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/83025347@N00] –Ultimately, it was a fail:
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Folks have already identified this,but all I did was to google the numbers from the side of the device to find this http://www.regencystamps.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=268777
Selling or buying?
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