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  1. psychotropic
    Hey, sorry I'm over a year late haha. I was going through my participated threads and saw this. I doubt you'll even see this post though. All the tubes and model pieces were just a fancy way of getting all the wires from place to place. I just thought aesthetically it would be cool, and maybe vaguely look like something that could be in a real stomtroopers bucket.
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    Yea that makes sense. Still it would be cool to see, even if it's just for one picture. Im a big hero fan and it would be cool to see it on anovos.
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    Awesome job so far for your first build! Cant wait to see more progress. Also I couldn't help but notice the hero. Is it a Master Replicas limited edition? You should take a shot with that helmet on too when your done the armor! That would be cool to see.
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    As a shorter trooper I am interested in this. Good job on all the trimming. Coming along nicely
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    A new hope hero. When I was a kid that's the one I would always look at and go whoa. The wider face with the lower brow and smaller frown make it look meaner. And I love the grey frown. It's too bad there haven't been any direct casts from a hero helmet available.
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    Idk sometimes I think I'm just too short to be a Tk. Like I know I can look pretty good if I build it right, but there will always be this thing in the back of my head that just nags me. Never be 100% you know.
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    Yea :/ It always is, but I was really curious cause I couldn't find any info on it. I do know that I don't like how RS looks on my size cause the short calves make short dudes look shorter, and I feel like ata/ap/tm win for short guy troopers. But I wonder how the rs fit on short dudes translates to the anovos kit.
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    I've been out of the loop for a bit. I know there have been some centurion anovos, but what is the lineage of their kit? Is it scanned or a custom sculpt? Also is the sizing different than other screen derived armors like ATA or AP? Im super short (5'6'' 122lb).
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    I'm actually surprised so many of you guys like it. I disliked it so much I thought for sure other Star Wars fans would be upset. Of course I'm happy you do. Glad someones happy haha But to me it just seemed like a not as good remake of ANH. Doesn't feel like a Star Wars movie, and as bad as the prequels were, at least they felt like Star Wars. Personally, it feels like they announced they where making a new Beatles record, then didn't use any of Paul's ideas and just hired Miley Cyrus, or some other modern pop star to cover the old songs. Those who like it, you didn't mind the visuals and the corny parts? Cause I think I'm going again, and hopefully this time I'll like it a bit more.
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    I really didn't like it. It seemed like they wanted everything to happen instantly. Like they wanted their characters to live up to the legendary legacy characters immediately, so they kind forced it and everything came too easy. Hey, we want a bond as strong as luke and han, so Po and Fin best friends after 4 minutes. Rey goes from never using the force before, to full out Jedi in 30 seconds. Hey, we need to take out the new Death Star: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen edition. Quick, rename the thermal exhaust port and shoot at it. Done in 3 minutes. And I called the twist before it happened. Saw it coming from a mile away. Idk, I just didn't feel anything when it happened. But all that aside I really did like Kylo Ren and the new Tie fighter Pilots. The new force powers where AWESOME!! The actors all did a good job too. But overall it just didn't feel Star Wars to me. The names of the b characters sounded like they were from Star Trek, some of the weapons where obviously poorly 3d printed, the weathering was just kinda black stuff, a lot of the creatures felt more dark crystal then Star Wars, the cgi wasn't good. And at a point it just seemed like they where renaming stuff and reusing plot points for no reason. Saying there is still "light" (as in light side of the force) in you, instead of plain old "good". Resistance instead of Rebellion. Then obviously all the plot points they used from a new hope. Sorry if that was a rant haha. I had to get it out.
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    I can't believe its today!! As I go see the movie in a few hours I'll be pretending all the stormtroopers are us haha.
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    Hope you start feeling better friend
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    The UK radio forum denied my thread and banned me cause "we are not a model making forum" jeeze. I've been on various forums for the better part of a decade and never had anything like that happen. They take themselves too seriously. I'm all out of ideas. If anyone else wants to try their luck asking around of radio forums be my guest, but looks like I won't be. Guess this will always just be a mystery.
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    Yea I'm also a guitarist and recording engineer You dont see these small pentodes often in guitar land. I have restored some old receivers before and play tube amps, but this tech is much older and therefore new to me since I started reading through this thread a while back. But its been really fun learning about all this old tech. Its so different. Its funny cause we pretty much know everything about this thing at this point except what specific gear it came from. I feel like we wont find pictures of it online though. Even good picture of the insides of consumer tech of this type and era seems "relatively" few and far between online. I kinda doubt we will find it, so our best bet is people. thats why I tried to join some forums. I even asked a friend in the UK if he knew any old military engineers or anything like that, and no specifics yet. Just gatta find the right radio enthusiast. He's out there somewhere.
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    Update 1: Someone on the organ forum said its an RF circuit. He said the compact layout and size of the capacitors means its not a tube organ and "obviously" a radio circuit. He also said its military and "Specifically a portable radio transmitter/receiver is my guess." So that narrows the search a bit. Ill keep you updated. I am such a nood with this 50s tech haha. Its painful to be so noobish while talking to all the super smart tech guys. The earliest audio gear or receiver I've ever worked on was 70s so I'm way out of my league haha. the thread if you want to fallow along and read pauls full response. So joining some old radio forums might be a good idea. http://www.organforum.com/forums/showthread.php?37955-The-Star-Wars-mystery-amp-tone-generator
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    I could be remembering wrong and making this up, but didn't someone ask a prop-maker and they didn't know what it was from? also I was going to wait to post this till I had more info, cause I didn't want to derail anything or go on a wild goose chase, but I was looking at some stuff and got a few hunches. I've had a hunch lately that maybe it could be a tone generator. I though it could be maybe a generator from an old tube organ, or maybe a different part from a tube organ? While I was looking into it I found this, which is kind of the closest thing I've seen just in terms of how it looks and how its set up. -scroll down a bit till you get to the part about the generator. The metal chassis the tubes are in, as well as the coils and caps on the bottom, look similar http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/nova/intro.htm - a pic from a different sight. A different organ I think Idk someone who knows more about this stuff can tell me if Im off. Just thought I'd post it anyway. I tried to sign up for vintage-radio.net but my thread never showed up after I wrote it. They know about old uk radio gear as well as old organs, so I thought that If anyone knew they would. Same story for an organ forum I tried to post on. Also If Im not mistaken neon lamps where commonly used in old organs to create octaves, and maybe some other function too I think. Is that what was on those posts or was that debunked, cause I forget haha? edit- I forgot to mention I think some tube organs used pentodes too.
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    I still do some research on this from time to time. I feel like a detective haha.
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    Hey Bro, long time no see!!! Great to see you still building new armor. I think I remember you trooping in your old tk years back when I first joined. New armor looks spiffy
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    That would be me who contacted you David (pay no attention to my lame screen name, I flipped to a random page in a dictionary and pointed haha). Thanks so much for signing up and taking an interest in helping us become a little less ignorant with electronics haha. Its much appreciated. Its was driving me nuts not knowing what the exact function of those weird transformers were, so Im so glad I know now. Is this amp also similar design? I was really on the complete wrong track for a while and it seems you guys were right all along. Sorry about that friends. I hope i didn't distract from the search too much.
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    https://www.dropbox.com/s/1oyskhd1pk22oeq/MC665_r27_M-List-1.pdf?dl=0 Let me know what you think. If I was on the right track or not as Im not quite sure what that numbering system is or how it works. Edit: See if you guys have any luck finding a picture. http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/?s=MIT+tube p.s. found this too in my earlier searches. thought it was worth sharing http://soup.hackerspaces.org/tag/retrocomputing%20ibm%20punchcard%20sorter
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    Dang it was working just a minute ago. Is there a way I can upload the one I downloaded right to the forum here. I've been on this forum for years and I dont know how to add an attachment If not Ill figure it out in the morning. Unless the link starts to work again.
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    Guys sorry for the double post, but I think I might have found something!!!!!!!!!! So I was looking up all kinds of stuff and was looking at tube racks for early 1950s computers. I found this picture which was the closest to anything that I saw on my research the last day or two. (I couldn't make the embed work so link to the picture) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:8863-Project-Whirlwind-CRMI.JPG Notice how similar the structure and circuit is to the rack. The two metal cylinders linked together near each tube, all lined up in a row. Just how part A and C are in the prop. This picture is of the "Whirlwind I" developed by MIT. So I looked at other magnetic core memory computers. Eventually it lead me in a circle. I don't remember what I googled to find it but I found this PDF. http://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/41293 Download the pdf and scroll down to page 47. M-1346. The number etched on the back of the rack (see post by PlayWolfCub on page 5 for reference). So then I looked up Cape Cod And look where it brought me back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind_I Scroll to Air Defense Networks. I think this might be it. I think the rack came out of a computer tube rack (core memory circuit?) they made for the Cape Cod Air defense system, which was made in the late 40s early 50s. So it was kinda something to do with radar equipment. Possible some broken spare ones they then replaced? edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Cod_System
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    Thanks Andy, yea I checked it out and have been using it for reference. Im trying to imagine what all the pieces are meant for and figure out what the device could have done. In case I missed it does anyone have any ideas what Part A does? battery? gm tube? old capacitor? I feel like it might be easier if we knew that. Also what part d is? Light mount of some kind? edit: I really wish I had x-ray vision and could see inside some of these endless pieces of gear Ive been flipping through.
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    Yea well on page three I read what that radio expert said. And yea I agree. I just thought Id agree that I dont think its audio. There are headphone amps with tubes kinda lined up like that but not with that kinda circuit. But you missed my main point. Which is to me this looks a lot lot like an old Nixie tube display (aka cold cathode display)(which to be clear is not audio related at all, its most likely a numerical display). Its hard to tell what it could be from, cause it looks like someone might have ripped the display portion out of a larger piece of gear. But I think this was a numerical display for something. And whatever it was displaying was probably using decimal points. What PlayfulWolfCub had labeled part C is where the Nixies would go. Part D might have had little neon lights mounted on top for the decimal point display. Nixie stuff like calculators and cash registers had little decimal lights in this same exact position. Thats why the circuit is so linear and repetitive.
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    Hey guy, sorry if Im late to the party. So I know Im probably beating a dead horse trying to help identify the original source. Pardon my ignorance if some of this has been thrown out there already. Now Im only 25 so I don't have any great knowledge of vintage electronics, but I have repaired a few audio receivers just for fun on the side since Im a recording engineer. And to me those racks don't come out and scream audio. Doesn't look like stuff that would have been junk in the 70s at least to me. But when I look at the racks it looks 50s to me. The caps and stuff, but I could be wrong. Sorry again if this was already thrown out there, but what jumped to my mind when I saw how it was configured was an old Nixie tube display. And after some googling it looks like they started in the 50s so that would make sense. If I were to guess what it came from Id say a Nixie cash register, clock, calculator, or frequency counter or something. If anyone feels the urge to check me and see if Im completely off-base or not with some research that would be cool. I think it would make a ton of sense if this is where it came from. Why they are always in separate 6 socket racks like that and made the way they are.
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