tmde spotted in a tv or movie

[Broken_Wings]

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.

[CalLabSolutions]

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.

[mdbuike]

Oh, a number of 2246's, 334's, and Fluke handhelds (supposedly radiation detectors) on SG1

Mike

[flew-da-coup]

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.

[Broken_Wings]

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

[jimmyc]

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.

[gb3]

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.

[Broken_Wings]

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. "

[Hawaii596]

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.

[flew-da-coup]

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.

[USMCPMEL]

I know there is some in Independence day I will have to rewatch tonight try to spot some stuff.

[Bryan]

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.

[Hawaii596]

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...

[CalibratorJ]

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.......

[RedBones]

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!!