I thought I started this thread once but don't see it. If you remember the title feel free to point me back to it.
In NCIS season 1 Episode Eye Spy
Fluke 6011A
and what looks to be an HP 3561A dynamic analyzer.
First of all Broken-Wings I would just like to say.. "Best thread ever.."
Flash Gordan had a Tektronix 491 in his space ship.. This is a little before my time, but I remember seeing one on a re-run about 20 years ago.
Oh, a number of 2246's, 334's, and Fluke handhelds (supposedly radiation detectors) on SG1
Mike
Mythbusters always has some kind of test equipment on their show. I remember the one about cell phones on planes that they had an Agilent ESA 20GHz sig gen and an Anritsu handheld spec an. I have also seen them use a Fluke 52 handheld thermometer.
Quote from: flew-da-coup on 03-19-2009 -- 05:13:20
Mythbusters always has some kind of test equipment on their show. I remember the one about cell phones on planes that they had an Agilent ESA 20GHz sig gen and an Anritsu handheld spec an. I have also seen them use a Fluke 52 handheld thermometer.
I saw one with the cell phones where they used a Gauss meter. I forget the brand but its a little blue one. I think the mfr starts with an E.
something like this . maybe an older model
http://www.extech.com/instruments/product.asp?catid=57&prodid=353
i think it was "volcano", one of the geologists uses a fluke hand held temp ind to check lava temp just before her girlfriend falls into it. i also remember the battery lcd was on. cmon Hollywood it's a cheap 9v battery.
U can't forget My Cousin Vinny!!!
Marisa Tomei said, "I used a torque wrench calibrated to (somethin somethin) with standards traceable to NIST. " Most direct TMDE reference in a movie I have ever heard. I think she spouted off some more lines about it but I can't recall.
Quote from: gb3 on 03-21-2009 -- 03:00:32
U can't forget My Cousin Vinny!!!
Marisa Tomei said, "I used a torque wrench calibrated to (somethin somethin) with standards traceable to NIST. " Most direct TMDE reference in a movie I have ever heard. I think she spouted off some more lines about it but I can't recall.
I don't remember it but I found the quotes from the whole scene.
"Vinny Gambini: [Vinny hears a drip in the motel bathroom] Weren't you the last one to use the bathroom?
Lisa: So?
Vinny Gambini: Well, did you use the faucet?
Lisa: Yeah.
Vinny Gambini: Then why didn'tcha turn it off?
Lisa: I DID turn it off!
Vinny Gambini: Well, if you turned it off, why am I listening to it?
Lisa: Did it ever occur to you it could be turned off AND drip at the same time?
Vinny Gambini: No. Because if you'd turned it off, it wouldn't drip!
Lisa: Maybe it's broken.
Vinny Gambini: Is that what you're saying? It's broken?
Lisa: Yeah. That's it, it's broken.
Vinny Gambini: You sure?
Lisa: I'm positive.
Vinny Gambini: Maybe you didn't twist it hard enough.
Lisa: I twisted it just right.
Vinny Gambini: How could you be so sure?
Lisa: [sighs] If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model faucet requires a range of 10 to 16 foot-pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torquage.
Vinny Gambini: Well, how could you be sure you used 16 foot-pounds of torque?
Lisa: Because I used a Craftsman model 1019 Laboratory Edition Signature Series torque wrench. The kind used by Caltech high energy physicists. And NASA engineers.
Vinny Gambini: Well, in that case, how can you be sure THAT's accurate?
Lisa: Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state AND federal Department of Weights and Measures... to be dead on balls accurate!
[She rips a page out of a magazine and hands it to him]
Lisa: Here's the certificate of validation.
Vinny Gambini: Dead on balls accurate?
Lisa: It's an industry term.
Vinny Gambini: [tosses paper away] I guess the f'ing thing is broken. "
I've posted this one before elsewhere, but -----
HP 8903B Audio Analyzer. Samantha Carter on Stargate SG1 was stranded in an alien spaceship and used a piece of electronic test equipment to create an interstellar communicator. She connected alligator clips to the outer shells of output high and input high BNC's and magically converted an 8903B into an interstellar radio.
Quote from: Hawaii596 on 03-23-2009 -- 07:58:01
I've posted this one before elsewhere, but -----
HP 8903B Audio Analyzer. Samantha Carter on Stargate SG1 was stranded in an alien spaceship and used a piece of electronic test equipment to create an interstellar communicator. She connected alligator clips to the outer shells of output high and input high BNC's and magically converted an 8903B into an interstellar radio.
I need to try that. Maybe I can contact a new alien species.
I know there is some in Independence day I will have to rewatch tonight try to spot some stuff.
The company I work for in an earlier incarnation had an office in California, the old Battlestar Galactica TV series in the late 70s used lots of the Tektronix 500 series plug in modules, I think the most popular was the DM501 set to ohms so it flashed. They just wanted stuff that lit up, didn't care it it really worked or not.
I need to dig out my ALF DVD set. I "THINK" it was an old H-P 608E RF generator they used for their inter-galactic transmitter. I also get a kick out of some of the ultra-cheap off brand instruments sometimes used (can't bring a particular brand to mind at the moment).
And how about the big, fancy rackmounts filled with old Tek 545's or similar with little lissajou patterns.
If anyone has worked on some of the old EIP 545 (I think that's the model), It's a microwave counter from days gone by. There was an LED segment test routine that would cycle through the different annunciators. I put it in that mode one time and explained to an uninformed person that it was a cosmic radiation detector. I'm bad...
Quote from: Hawaii596 on 03-25-2009 -- 16:24:12
If anyone has worked on some of the old EIP 545 (I think that's the model), It's a microwave counter from days gone by.
You mean the blue ones that run up to 110 Ghz or so if you have C channel and all the widgets and whatnot to get it there? I think it is a EIP515, maybe a 545, not sure, I NEVER use em.
BUT, I still CAL those, on a regular basis.......... don't ask, the Army doesn't throw out old stuff in a certain lab, it just finds a shelf and stays there, FOREVER! Last count on em, I saw 10 or so of em. Hopefully when I move into my "new" lab they will find their way to the graveyard.......
I was watching the miniseries of the new Battlestar Galactica and in the hangar crew shed there was a surface plate with 24" height gage.
The whole bridge set is full of random gear, the wife made me stop playing with the remote to identify it. It was pretty grainy- gotta get it on Blu-Ray!! :D
A bunch in The Watchmen, HP 334, a few old round crt tek scopes that I can remember off hand
Quote from: griff61 on 04-13-2009 -- 12:32:56
A bunch in The Watchmen, HP 334, a few old round crt tek scopes that I can remember off hand
I was told that was a good movie ( not for kids ). I will have to check it out.
Quote from: flew-da-coup on 04-13-2009 -- 18:00:56
Quote from: griff61 on 04-13-2009 -- 12:32:56
A bunch in The Watchmen, HP 334, a few old round crt tek scopes that I can remember off hand
I was told that was a good movie ( not for kids ). I will have to check it out.
Definitely wait until it comes out on video. My son wanted to see it for his birthday, now he owes me...
I saw what looked to be a Fluke 87 on NCIS in Abby's lab the other night.
Another 6011 in NCIS
Season 4 episode: driven
Robot driven hummer episode.
M.A.N.T.I.S.
331A (or other non automatic nulling distortion analyzer)
old glowing scope.
what looks to be a rack mounted gen-rad decade box
several other pieces all rackmounted for display in a surveillance van.
XMEN, Wolverine, the biggining. When he was "transformed" I noticed a 20,000 PSI pressure gauge and they were pretending it was a volt meter. Darn good movie!
CG5001 flashing Error
D.A.R.Y.L.
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U can't forget My Cousin Vinny!!!
Marisa Tomei said, "I used a torque wrench calibrated to (somethin somethin) with standards traceable to NIST. " Most direct TMDE reference in a movie I have ever heard. I think she spouted off some more lines about it but I can't recall.
She said "Dead on balls accurate"
Saw a really old O scope in naked gun. Wasn't triggered. Just a dumb dot slowly moving across the screen... in a hospital.
Just recently in the commercials with that Fallon guy and the baby, right at the end there is a shelf in the back with alot of stuff. One looks like a old resistor box. Also I think it was a Mazda one out on the desert testing one of their models zooming by, the tech looks like he playing with a 500 series scope. How that equates to their state of the art autos I don't know.
almost in every episode of NCI Miami when they show the lab, you can see an agilent spectrophotometer or a fisher scientific centrifuge, also on SG1 the control panel has a few scopes
Big Bang Theory when they are at Cal Tech.
On the original Battlestar Galactica the bridge had multiple racks of Tektronix TM500 test equipment. It was even mentioned in the ending credits, "Bridge test equipment provided by Tektronix.".
They'd have to change it now to "Bridge test equipment provided by Danaher".
Quote from: Hawaii596 on 07-11-2013 -- 09:17:35
They'd have to change it now to "Bridge test equipment provided by Danaher".
And calibrated, sort of, by Danaher...
What do you mean "sort of"???
Quote from: USMCPMEL on 03-23-2009 -- 12:45:19
I know there is some in Independence day I will have to rewatch tonight try to spot some stuff.
In the new X-men DoFP movie tthere's a Boonton 1121 Audio Analyzer, some HP 5345As, and tons of other unrecognizable TMDE
I saw those too. I think I saw one of the old HP 5245L nixie tube counters as well.