Bell & Howell Aerial combat 16mm film titler fixture

This fixture was used to put a title onto gun camera footage either before or after a mission.  It'll be interesting to find out from any vets what the procedure was.

The unit is bakelite, which is delicate material to have survived.  I also have a sextant which has a large amount of bakelite (including the case, go figure for the sextant) and magnesium parts.

All of the fellows I know and can ask were with seaplanes or bombers, so don't have the same procedures.  Might have been used by them, however.

Bausch & Lomb Deuterium Source power supply

I got the rest of the deuterium source in an auction today.  Now have a functioning source.

This is the head, already covered in an earlier entry

 Supply front.  It has an on off switch and an ammeter to indicate primary high voltage draw.  Deuterium lamps must be started with a heater and a spark, so the trick of these supplies is to kick that w/o damaging the lamp.  The yellow light comes on for about 5 or so seconds to fire the lamp, and the arc stabilizes in about 5 more to the usual "uv" violet glow.

 rear of the display 120v 60hz, 160 watts cat number 33-86-35

 from the top of the source housing

 bottom of the housing type also 33-66-35

 output aperture from supply (operating, but flash and exposure doesn't show uv)

 uv purple, available light shot.

 collimation lens system.  since it is UV, must be quartz optics

Next stop, collect the monochromator from stash and test out the thing.  Unfortunately, I don't know how far down my Ocean Optics spectrograph goes.

D17 disks

Looks like I own two of these + a pile of boards.  Documentation has been posted to bitsavers.org

Minuteman Autonetics D17 disk drive photos

Three DL 360's

each unit has 2 73.6gb 10000rpm SCSI drives.

First unit had 2gb, one 3.2ghz Xeon.  one drive dead.  Ubuntu 10.4 installed on one drive

Second unit has 4gb 2 2.4ghz Xeon both drives work.  Also a wide scsi controller with external SCSI3 (mini) connectors.  both drives work.  installing Ubuntu 10.4

ILO is included for serial operation of servers.  9600 baud serial access with VT100 cursor control access to each server is enabled.  Stickers on top have login and password for ILO access.

compaq dl380

  assy 279036-001 fan  xeon 2.8ghz 307103-001
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11473_div/11473_div.html

Bausch & Lomb Monochomater Deuterium UV Lamp source

This provides an alternate source for the UV monochromator head.  There is also a UV source which is a Mercury lamp powered unit.

I now have all three of the optical units, several of the Tungsten lamps, and this lamp unit.  Now to find out if it will work with any of my power supplies.  I do have a source with P/S which has both a mercury lamp and a deuterium lamp, but it is not B & L.  Also it does not have a power supply for the mercury lamp.

The apples were tasty too.