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06-16-2007, 05:10 AM
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| Please Help Identify This Instrument We bought this at a garage sale & can't find anyone who can tell us exactly what it is. We've searched all over the internet, visited the local VFW, the Planes of Fame & the Air Museum in Chino, CA... nobody seems to know. If someone here can help, we would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Denise   |
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06-16-2007, 05:19 AM
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| It looks like an Inclinometer of some sort but from where I wouldn't know but I suspect FlyboyJ on many of the other guys will be able to tell you |
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06-16-2007, 12:00 PM
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| IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO   Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Colorado, USA
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| ??????????????
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06-16-2007, 01:11 PM
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| Hi cakollektor, Could be too easy but is there any references / data plate on your (looks like compass?) ? Cheers, Olivier Last edited by SABURO; 06-16-2007 at 01:19 PM. |
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06-17-2007, 12:42 AM
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| anybody thinking submarine? just a thought. |
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06-17-2007, 01:39 AM
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| or did i just turn retarded? |
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06-17-2007, 02:10 AM
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| No cougar, I don't think you are. I'm thinking its a dive plane indicator. |
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06-17-2007, 03:07 AM
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| makes me feel better thanks |
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06-17-2007, 08:10 AM
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| cakollektor, could you give us the dimentions of the part. I have to agree with Thorlifter. It looks way to big to be for an aircraft. At least by looking at the pictues and the location for the placement of fittings.
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06-17-2007, 09:28 AM
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| Thanks so much to everyone for the input. In answer to Saburo's question regarding a data plate, there is none... we did find a number stamped into the metal underneath top ring. I wrote it down, but can't seem to find where I wrote it now. I believe it was six digits, the first digit a 3. It came in a wooden box, but I don't know if it is meant to be in the box, or if a previous owner did that. The top ring is 5-7/8" diameter & the height is about 4-1/16", not including the post that sticks out the bottom. I added a couple more photos. Again, thanks for the help. Denise    |
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06-17-2007, 11:33 AM
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| Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Paris France
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| cakollektor = the lucky collector of the year !!!??? To me..... This is a Japanese Reflector navigator's compass model 1 or 2, (kai ?). According to my sources it could be Type 2 Kai (to be confirm !) your compass is missing the reflector mirror (may be not, it was use as a simple aperiodic compass (like the British type P6, P8, P4, P10, P11)on the BETTY & FRANCES bomber), the lighting system,the card holder and the data plate (could have been a decal). A specialist could be more precise for the Type. Usefull link : http://gunsight.jp/b/english/hunatu03e.htm Usefull book/ Monogram close-up N°14 & 15 Aviator uniform & equipement of IJN (model art magazine) see the scan below. Japanese aircraft interior 1940-1945 by Robert C.Mikesh Used on: (to be confirm !) NELL IRVING BETTY (aperiodic) FRANCES (aperiodic) SEIRAN JAKE PAUL P.S. More and more I think your compass must have been used without the miror, for direct reading from above (like the Brtish type, see above) as the numbers are written in a normal way not reverse as they are on the document attached (to be read with a mirror) so I would say Betty bomber or Frances A/C. Last edited by SABURO; 06-17-2007 at 12:09 PM. |
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06-17-2007, 11:39 AM
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| Wow, this is a fun mytery. Do you have any assurange that it is military related at all? I mean yes, its got the look, but it might be some sort of flow meter for a milking parlor for all we know! Anyhow, I checked out this site: The Fleet Type Submarine Online Based on the submarine theory and didn't see any obvious matches on the sttering equipment stations. But someone else might have more time -- and its a great site to look at in any case. Does anyone else look at the -40 to 40 scale and the 10 to 0 scale and think some sort of main and vernier scales? |
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06-17-2007, 12:09 PM
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| Great work Olivier!
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06-17-2007, 12:12 PM
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| Wow awsome job there Olivier. I could have stared at that all day and never figured it out.
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06-17-2007, 12:18 PM
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| This photo of a Betty G4M bomber cockpit is from "Japanese aircraft interior 1940-1945" by Robert C.Mikesh Page 233 Cheers, Olivier |
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