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I was given that exact piece of gear by a friendly TV repairman when I was about 13 years old. Its a combination signal generator and scope to be used for sweep alignment of receivers. I got a hell of a burn from the CRT high volt transformer. I had forgotten about it. Thanks.
Bingo! The RCA connection was a modification, as well as the upgraded CRT. It read: Supreme Cathode Ray Oscilloscope Model 555 Diagnomoscope De Luxe Series Only $147.95 back in 1938. In today’s dollar? 27OCT24 $3,308.42 ahhhh, inflation.
Almost the equivalent back then to a two-way radio service monitor (which usually has RF signal generator & oscilloscope, as well as other functions); it it's designed for doing sweep alignments, it would be almost equivalent to a spectrum analyzer that has a tracking generator. I have a couple of Motorola R2001D's, & just restored a Motorola R-2400, have an R2001A with a couple of fried resistors in the power supply on the eventual project list. Until I saw your posting, I was going to guess (with the RF frequency dial on it) that it was a very early spectrum ananlyzerI think those were more post_WWII; the earliest panaramic radio adapters were invented in 1937 if I remember correctly; Hallicrafters & I think at least 1 other company made some designed for military use. I actually owned one MANY years ago, had it wired to the IF of a Hallicrafters S-85. 😶 Tom WA1LBK
One of his best traits is his appreciation of vintage and antique equipment that many people (and tech's) today cannot fathom, let alone use. There's also a tonne of knowledge that is otherwise fading into history that he is doing an amazing job of rescuing, preserving and resurrecting for future generations.
Way way way back in the day Supreme offered on some of their test equipment a factory installed upgrade, for a fee, years after the initial sale. The upgrades were not always pretty but they were all functional. It's a Supreme 555 Diagnomoscope as identified by CyanTiger, further down in the comments. This larger scope mod could easily have been done by Supreme or a handy tech as an upgrade.
Photos of the original device show a much smaller CRT. Someone upgraded or repaired the device using a larger CRT - which is why some of the inscription now is under the rubber bezel. It originally read: MODEL 555 DIAGNOMOSCOPE DE LUXE SERIES (not "... industries" ;-) )
Getting this thing apart as well as fixing it will be a treat; then reassembling? This will require many digital photos and sketches. If there's anyone who can do this job, it's Mr. Carlson. I'll watch every second of this adventure!
I can't imagine that they designed it such badly serviceable. Isn't there perhaps an unobvious hidden service position to flip up the entire top cover on a hinge at one chassis end? The routing of cable bundles can hint what it was supposed to be. (E.g. inside a music keyboard Vermona SK86 I discovered a bizarre service position where stacked PCBs could swing to the sides like the doors of an altar after loosening few screws. Also early TV sets often had tricky chassis flip mechanisms.)
TV sweep generator and scope for IF alignments. Incredible piece. Please please please do a Paul Carson Restoration on it and use it to align a split sound TV from the late 1940s!!!!!!! Edit:Supreme 555 Diagnomoscope orig price $147.95!!!
I still like the story about the slanted "on the move" look being accidental. It originated from the curtain shutters of the Graflex Speed Graphic cameras which were used to photograph motor races in the 1920s. Because it had a rolling shutter, the top of the car would be exposed before the bottom, so the bottom would be more ahead, slanting the car while it moved, giving the illusion that the air was trying to skew the entire car over. After that it was popularized in comics, and people interpreted that as "going fast" because all racing photos looked like that.
Harold Carson (1895-1959) was a radio broadcast pioneer in Canada, developed radio and tv broadcast enterprises, was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and partnered with Hugh Pearson and James Taylor in such enterprises - hence the three names on the invoice tag.
Definitely a cool old piece of gear. I’m not a fan of orange, but as unique as this is, the bright orange sides give it some flare and is fitting for it's creative cabinet design. It will look great whichever route you take with it.
This looks like a “cosmic do over” machine. The little screen shows what happens at a certain date and time. Just gotta how kilo and mega cycles align with our calendars. Awesome!
I appreciate your inclination to restore this instrument. The artistry of the container and mystery of its application are treasures. Thank you for sharing your passion and excitement of electronic archeology. I love how you translate the old label terms into modern practice, you're a master.
Must be a thrill moment to get this wonderfull device working again. Like you said yesterday, on Jet-Tim's reaction, please consider to make a few videos of the restauration. This is way better than watching television. Stefan
Please, please, please do this restoration very soon. I miss the videos like the Vedolyzer. This will be an awesome, awesome restoration!!! Then seeing it in action working. Since it is has already be modified it would be neat to also see the Carlson mods on in to make it that much better!
@@MrCarlsonsLab ...or a gender-bender machine from another universe. At least the polychlorinated biphenyl oil leaking out of those capacitors and trafo may slowly transform your gender by their dread hormonal effects, until you wake up within the Rocky Horror Picture Show. 😉
Funny, I was thinking to myself as you removed the back cover to start with, would there be a schematic inside, as the manufacturers often did in the early days, but no. Then you take off the second underside cover and ' hey ' a schematic, not the factory one but a later home made mod schematic. Made my day.
There are old GEC TV transmitters from the 1940s that have this design vibe. I used to find them really spooky as they were always full of spiders webs and you could walk into them. I blame Flash Gordon.
Really is a stark contrast when compared to the disposable junk made these days. That whole art deco design is really fantastic. Right down to the knobs and that absolutely fantastic bezel on that dial. And I'm guessing its probably put a few bucks in surgeon's pockets via hernia surgery, lol. But that's ok, because it's just darn cool. I do dig the offset dials with the little u-joints on the shaft running back to the switches or pots, whatever they are. Just neat seeing how they did things back then.
May it be that the u-joints are there for a service position where when the machine lies on its side or upside-down, one of the chassis folds out on a hinge?
Love the Deco design, it permeates that device. I'm sure it was meant to echo a locomotive's appearance in this case, no pun intended. :) While electronics of that era may have lacked our level of technology, they often made up for it with style.
Do yourself a favor and make a silicone mold of one of those art deco pointer knobs. They’re in fantastic condition and a style that’s getting harder to find with time. That way on future restorations all you have to do is cast some black resin in the mold and you got a beautiful replacement knob 👍🏻
Fascinating piece of equipment! Thanks for sharing it with us. I’d suggest making a multi-part restoration series vs compressing the restoration into a single video. Please take us along for more of the restoration process. Seeing you dig for tubes and select various parts would be interesting.
As others have pointed out, it is a 555 series Diagnomoscope DeLuxe model, meaning it's a signal generator and an oscilloscope combined. The faded lettering you pointed out would've had the text "Model 555 Diagnomoscope DeLuxe Series". The CRT dial is not the original one as it was smaller and had a similar bezel to the signal dial, so someone's modified it in the past. There would've been white lettering around every switch and port to help the user identify what it does, and there would've also been a band of up-to-down letters just above the CRT dial. There's also two switches on top of the machine that have been changed out as well.
The catalog photo I could find of the Supreme No. 555 Diagnomoscope, which this device probably is, show the labels on those two sockets as "High R.F. Output" and "Low R.F. Output," and the caption block pointing to them reads "Specially shielded output jacks for R.F. Signal Generator."
To an amateur like me this is fascinating. No need to condense work down for me,I'm very happy to watch and learn which is why I'm a Patreon for your channel. Thank you for all your work and attention to explaining what you're doing and how to understand electronics.
G,day Mr Carlson from Sydney Australia. Research and pre-course reading completed. In my mind you are restoring a frequency scope that was used to tune Radios and television. 📻📺
Exactly. That's what the front lettering was shouting out. Things like that are why I wish he had real-time comments. I wanted to post it, but there was nowhere he'd see it in real-time.
It's not often that we see Mr Carlson scratching his head in bewilderment! For me, I look forward to watching the restoration of this equipment, and I will have my favourite beverage to hand, Navy rum.
Gorgeous piece of engineering and design. Does look like a piece of SCI-FI rocket command center gear from a black & white film of days gone by; perhaps 1930s art deco as someone else suggested .... just beautiful. Looking forward to seeing the restoration and power-up. Hopefully this was the bench model, and not the portable version! 🙂 Thank you for sharing and your work to preserve history and the engineering and true artistry of these old rigs 42-Jack
Hello Mr Carlson! This mysterious device is probably a spectrum analyser for monitoring radio frequencies. It could have been used in the radio measuring service to examine the transmission quality of radio transmitters or to analyse radio interference. A few years ago I restored a PANORAMA EMPFÄNGER 36 MHz with ZUSATZEMPFÄNGER TYPE ECFs. Manufacturer was Plisch Viernheim The former is the basic device with cathode ray tube. With centre frequency 36 MHz +/- 4 MHz for scanning the spectrum. The additional receiver is a super, which mixes the VHF channels 1 to 12 and UHF 470 MHz to 970 MHz down to IF = 36 MHz. The span of the panorama receiver is 1 MHz (exact scanning of the spectrum), 7 MHz (video signal), 9 MHz (video signal + sound). The scanning frequencies are 50 Hz to 30 Hz and 50 Hz synchronised to the mains frequency. The RBW was selected accordingly (signal delay through filter). Both devices were used in the terrestrial distribution network of the Federal Republic of Germany. They were helpful in troubleshooting when, for example, a television transmitter had no sound or had completely failed. In any case, an interesting project that probably shows a spectrum analyser from the early days. This is also supported by the transducer you discovered, which changes its inductance analogue to the sawtooth frequency for the X deflection of the picture tube. This inductance forms a resonant circuit and generates the frequency for the second mixer. This results in the display of a voltage above the frequency in the picture tube. The first mixer brings the reception frequency into the reception range of the second mixer. All of this is achieved without complex calibration. At that time, people were delighted with a meaningful spectrum. Have fun restoring this mysterious device!
It's gear from the Cat Detector Van from the Ministry of Howzinge. Their equipment can pinpoint a purr at 400 yards. And Eric, being such a happy cat, was a piece of cake...
Wow Paul, i dont know where you find this cool stuff but i am definatley looking forward to seeing this restoration, especially with the bread oven/ paint booth.... 73 de WD8JM
Its late here in TN. Dont care. Ima working man. Monday moning comes early. But Ima grab some coffee. See where this takes me. Thanks Mr. Carlson. Made my night bud.
This is somebody's idea of an all-in-one bench instrument. Maybe. Signal generator and o'scope. Or sweep generator with a demodulated RF display on the screen for tuning RF and IF stages?
You did well to get away with just a burn. I am guessing the EHT could be 60 Hz derived and therefore lethal and TV technicians have been killed servicing early TV sets of this type! Is this definitely an IF TV alignment generator? If not, could it be a panoramic receiver? TV IFs confirm to fairly well defined frequencies. The dial seems to cover a number of radio bands.
Stunning piece of gear. As are your knowledge, drive and entusiasm. Looking forward to see the resturationvideo. Many thanks for what you are showing us.
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Hi, Paul! Is there any chance you would ever do a video about your Dynaload? What it is, what it does, and how it works inside? Thanx, Rusty's Repairs
It's 1938 Supreme Instruments Corp. Catalog
Supreme 555 Diagnomoscope
@@dosh2222 Indeed.
22:20 ; D
@@dosh2222 too cool!! Great job helping Carlson out.
I was given that exact piece of gear by a friendly TV repairman when I was about 13 years old. Its a combination signal generator and scope to be used for sweep alignment of receivers. I got a hell of a burn from the CRT high volt transformer.
I had forgotten about it. Thanks.
It sounds like a lot of fun. Is it pre-war?
HA! I knew it.
@@M10000 Yes, 1938
@@bandersentv Taylor, Pearson and Carson the Alberta radio/electronics giant.
Plus, fancy seeing you in the comments lol
Are the dies supposed to be a hideous orange?
1938 Supreme Instruments Corp. Catalog
Supreme 555 Diagnomoscope
(Oscilloscope and Signal Generator Combination)
Wow so the original crt on the top was indeed a lot smaller.
@@ChipGuy ...and the partial text reads "DE LUXE SERIES" not "SOMETHING INDUSTRIES".
Bingo!
The RCA connection was a modification, as well as the upgraded CRT.
It read:
Supreme
Cathode Ray Oscilloscope
Model 555
Diagnomoscope
De Luxe Series
Only $147.95 back in 1938.
In today’s dollar?
27OCT24
$3,308.42
ahhhh, inflation.
Almost the equivalent back then to a two-way radio service monitor (which usually has RF signal generator & oscilloscope, as well as other functions); it it's designed for doing sweep alignments, it would be almost equivalent to a spectrum analyzer that has a tracking generator.
I have a couple of Motorola R2001D's, & just restored a Motorola R-2400, have an R2001A with a couple of fried resistors in the power supply on the eventual project list.
Until I saw your posting, I was going to guess (with the RF frequency dial on it) that it was a very early spectrum ananlyzerI think those were more post_WWII; the earliest panaramic radio adapters were invented in 1937 if I remember correctly; Hallicrafters & I think at least 1 other company made some designed for military use. I actually owned one MANY years ago, had it wired to the IF of a Hallicrafters S-85. 😶
Tom WA1LBK
Great find John!
Looks like a perfect prop for the original movie "Metropolis."
Forbidden planet🎉🎉🎉
This comment rocks. Was just thinking "what was that movie"
Dr Emmet Brown PhD from "Back to the Future"
Mr. Carlson is the Einstein of electronics. If I was a young man getting into this line of work, Mr. Carlson would be the teacher I would pick.
Thanks for your kind comment!
Could not agree more - Mr Carlson is an absolute genius and is my go-to guru for a definitive learning experience
One of his best traits is his appreciation of vintage and antique equipment that many people (and tech's) today cannot fathom, let alone use. There's also a tonne of knowledge that is otherwise fading into history that he is doing an amazing job of rescuing, preserving and resurrecting for future generations.
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Damn that Art Deco design screaming from every detail, every bezel decoration and knob... beautiful!
Yeah made me think of art deco posters of a train
Or a Buck Rodger’s prop
@@mikebeacom4883 Yep :)
Those selector knobs are pure art
@@bigfilsing They are just beautiful.
Way way way back in the day Supreme offered on some of their test equipment a factory installed upgrade, for a fee, years after the initial sale. The upgrades were not always pretty but they were all functional. It's a Supreme 555 Diagnomoscope as identified by CyanTiger, further down in the comments. This larger scope mod could easily have been done by Supreme or a handy tech as an upgrade.
Photos of the original device show a much smaller CRT. Someone upgraded or repaired the device using a larger CRT - which is why some of the inscription now is under the rubber bezel.
It originally read:
MODEL 555
DIAGNOMOSCOPE
DE LUXE SERIES
(not "... industries" ;-) )
Good find!
Check out if it's a CVR97
Getting this thing apart as well as fixing it will be a treat; then reassembling? This will require many digital photos and sketches. If there's anyone who can do this job, it's Mr. Carlson. I'll watch every second of this adventure!
I can't imagine that they designed it such badly serviceable. Isn't there perhaps an unobvious hidden service position to flip up the entire top cover on a hinge at one chassis end? The routing of cable bundles can hint what it was supposed to be. (E.g. inside a music keyboard Vermona SK86 I discovered a bizarre service position where stacked PCBs could swing to the sides like the doors of an altar after loosening few screws. Also early TV sets often had tricky chassis flip mechanisms.)
I was always very good at the taking apart phase,it was the go back together phase ,i suck at.
TV sweep generator and scope for IF alignments. Incredible piece. Please please please do a Paul Carson Restoration on it and use it to align a split sound TV from the late 1940s!!!!!!! Edit:Supreme 555 Diagnomoscope orig price $147.95!!!
Nope, only goes up to 15MHz. Fine for radio, but not high enough for TV work. Typical split sound IF is 21.25MHz.
Good find! $147 in 1938! Pricey.
How wierd ! you spelled Pauls name without an 'L' just like on the invoice ! :)
@@andymouseWatching Johnny's show...
No it was 98$ and now we know why the writting is covered up the original tube was much much smaller and they cut a larger hole
Long format resto, please!
Thought the mat with the stripes was part of it at first... super cool.
I still like the story about the slanted "on the move" look being accidental.
It originated from the curtain shutters of the Graflex Speed Graphic cameras which were used to photograph motor races in the 1920s. Because it had a rolling shutter, the top of the car would be exposed before the bottom, so the bottom would be more ahead, slanting the car while it moved, giving the illusion that the air was trying to skew the entire car over.
After that it was popularized in comics, and people interpreted that as "going fast" because all racing photos looked like that.
You may find your answers by searching: "Raymond Loewy"
I'd definitely keep the original colors... especially with such a unique piece of equipment.
I do like the orange, too
Dang that thing's rad. I'd say you have a lot more content than just 30 minutes for restoring that guy. I wouldn't mind a 5-part video on it.
Thanks!
Thank You!
Even just the metal bezel on the megacycles dial is gorgeous. What a design icon.
Harold Carson (1895-1959) was a radio broadcast pioneer in Canada, developed radio and tv broadcast enterprises, was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and partnered with Hugh Pearson and James Taylor in such enterprises - hence the three names on the invoice tag.
Original mr Carlson🎉🎉🎉🎉
He built an expensive, entirely underwhelming mid-century modern home in Calgary shortly before he died. It was destroyed in the 2013 floods.
@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co Too bad about the house even it was underwhelming.
Definitely a cool old piece of gear. I’m not a fan of orange, but as unique as this is, the bright orange sides give it some flare and is fitting for it's creative cabinet design. It will look great whichever route you take with it.
The orange side panels look great. I think silver would be boring in comparison.
Agreed! I hope he keeps the Orange.
What a wonderful way to end my day by watching this video and then sleeping.
Exactly! 😀
The closest thing I have found is the 1938 Supreme 555 Diagnomoscope. Thanks for sharing this!
🤔 maybe a previous owner later retrofitted it with a larger CRT.
I think you've nailed it.
Barring the later modifications of course. 👍
Just googled it! I think you’re right!
Googled images of it and I think you are right! This one is modded with a larger CRT
Everything seems to match otherwise
Diagnomoscope, so it's a gnome detector? I guessed as much but waited for someone braver than me to suggest it. 👍
This looks like a “cosmic do over” machine. The little screen shows what happens at a certain date and time. Just gotta how kilo and mega cycles align with our calendars. Awesome!
Please make it a few hour long videos, This is awesome. Thanks Tim
Thanks! I'll consider it.
@@MrCarlsonsLab I was going to ask for several 30 or so minutes pieces to the restoration.
I will second that. What an interesting device.
"This has been designed to maim" that had me chuckling. This does look to be a very involved and interesting restoration. Looking forward to this.
I appreciate your inclination to restore this instrument. The artistry of the container and mystery of its application are treasures. Thank you for sharing your passion and excitement of electronic archeology. I love how you translate the old label terms into modern practice, you're a master.
Thank you for your kind words!
Must be a thrill moment to get this wonderfull device working again. Like you said yesterday, on Jet-Tim's reaction, please consider to make a few videos of the restauration. This is way better than watching television.
Stefan
That design is so beautiful that it just about beats the style of all modern devices. I absolutely love it.
Absolutely!
Can't wait to see this restoration! Supreme 555 Diagnomoscope
My Alienware Aurora R4 from 12 years ago has that same locomotive shape. Still one of the best looking PC designs I've seen.
Super awesome ! Definitely want to see this thing work again !
That is wild looking. All on board for the restoration!
Please, please, please do this restoration very soon. I miss the videos like the Vedolyzer. This will be an awesome, awesome restoration!!! Then seeing it in action working. Since it is has already be modified it would be neat to also see the Carlson mods on in to make it that much better!
Obviously this is a time traveling machine. I hope you get yours going, mine is broken at the moment.
From what this has shown me, you will have your working in two weeks. Be careful with that device you are considering tomorrow afternoon as well.
@@MrCarlsonsLab ...or a gender-bender machine from another universe. At least the polychlorinated biphenyl oil leaking out of those capacitors and trafo may slowly transform your gender by their dread hormonal effects, until you wake up within the Rocky Horror Picture Show. 😉
Funny, I was thinking to myself as you removed the back cover to start with, would there be a schematic inside, as the manufacturers often did in the early days, but no. Then you take off the second underside cover and ' hey ' a schematic, not the factory one but a later home made mod schematic. Made my day.
I was thinking there might be a mouse skeleton or two inside.
This is gold!
I’m gonna love to see this long form restoration.
And after that a tv to see this thing working. 💪🏻
Can't wait for the six hour restoration video!
Longer than that, I suspect!
So many smart and informative people here in comments. Thanks!
Yes a resurrection of this would be awesome. Cheers
the style of the case reminds me of old power plants that are abandoned and the control panels. a forgotten era of things built with class.
Exactly what I was thinking of. There's one here in Philadelphia that has a lot of this stuff still in it.
There are old GEC TV transmitters from the 1940s that have this design vibe. I used to find them really spooky as they were always full of spiders webs and you could walk into them. I blame Flash Gordon.
Really looking forward to this restoration. The outward appearance is simply AMAZING. This project deserves to be milked for more than a 30 min video!
Really cool piece of history, but what a runaway vintage Mack Truck of a deathtrap. I can't wait to see it play when you restore it.
"PF" wouldn't stand for "picofarad" on equipment of this vintage. "Picofarad" was still called "micro micro farad" or "mmfd" at that time.
Low Pass Filter and High Pass Filter. But he surely knew that so I don't really know why he said picofarad.
probably those should read High Rf and Low Rf and the "R" lost a leg in some battle with the owls and then became a "P"
@@TheAlchaemist I was thinking the same thing
Okay, I'm hooked. We have to find out what the heck this thing does. I'll be watching for sure. Very cool. Much appreciated.
What a work of art this machine is.
The color is right as it is. It is the Union Pacific color, the same color as the M-10000. The streamlined train of the future!
Really is a stark contrast when compared to the disposable junk made these days. That whole art deco design is really fantastic. Right down to the knobs and that absolutely fantastic bezel on that dial. And I'm guessing its probably put a few bucks in surgeon's pockets via hernia surgery, lol. But that's ok, because it's just darn cool.
I do dig the offset dials with the little u-joints on the shaft running back to the switches or pots, whatever they are. Just neat seeing how they did things back then.
May it be that the u-joints are there for a service position where when the machine lies on its side or upside-down, one of the chassis folds out on a hinge?
Love the dial bezel. Kinda art deco.
Also the safety switch .. with uninsulated contacts :)
They tried, LOL! :^)
It will be fun to watch you get it up and running, 87 years after being made. But I have zero doubts that you will do it!
Art deco electronics. I love it!
Looks like something the Krell left behind.
Seriously cool. I can’t wait for the resto video.
to retore this very interesting gear, you can get away with a 4 part video, minimun 1 hours each, every one will watch and enjoy!!!
What a challenge Paul !!! It will be a pleasure to see how you put that rig back in operation
Thank you, Mr. Carlson.
You’ve got a beauty and a serious restoration. Godspeed. Glen
What a beautiful work bench...!
Agree, noticed it at the beginning. Meticulous finish and gloss.
I've never seen a gadget like this. I am curious to see how it works. I enjoy seeing these tools and machines
Love the Deco design, it permeates that device. I'm sure it was meant to echo a locomotive's appearance in this case, no pun intended. :) While electronics of that era may have lacked our level of technology, they often made up for it with style.
There’s a catalog page on the 555 online. Nice picture too. Had a 3” CRT
Do yourself a favor and make a silicone mold of one of those art deco pointer knobs. They’re in fantastic condition and a style that’s getting harder to find with time. That way on future restorations all you have to do is cast some black resin in the mold and you got a beautiful replacement knob 👍🏻
Scan them for a 3D printing website.
This restoration will be fun! I dont care how long the video is I will watch it all in awe! What a lovely looking piece that is gonna be.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating piece of equipment! Thanks for sharing it with us. I’d suggest making a multi-part restoration series vs compressing the restoration into a single video. Please take us along for more of the restoration process. Seeing you dig for tubes and select various parts would be interesting.
As others have pointed out, it is a 555 series Diagnomoscope DeLuxe model, meaning it's a signal generator and an oscilloscope combined. The faded lettering you pointed out would've had the text "Model 555 Diagnomoscope DeLuxe Series". The CRT dial is not the original one as it was smaller and had a similar bezel to the signal dial, so someone's modified it in the past. There would've been white lettering around every switch and port to help the user identify what it does, and there would've also been a band of up-to-down letters just above the CRT dial. There's also two switches on top of the machine that have been changed out as well.
Getting it apart to begin restoration is going to be a major job. Best of luck...I look forward to the project video.
You can call it the “Daylight” after the Southern Pacific locomotive 4449. Can’t wait to see you tackle this one!
Back in the day, capacitors in the pF range were usually labeled mmF. Perhaps the pf label is referring to power factor?
The catalog photo I could find of the Supreme No. 555 Diagnomoscope, which this device probably is, show the labels on those two sockets as "High R.F. Output" and "Low R.F. Output," and the caption block pointing to them reads "Specially shielded output jacks for R.F. Signal Generator."
The knobs and bezel on the frequency dial looks art deco.
To an amateur like me this is fascinating. No need to condense work down for me,I'm very happy to watch and learn which is why I'm a Patreon for your channel. Thank you for all your work and attention to explaining what you're doing and how to understand electronics.
G,day Mr Carlson from Sydney Australia. Research and pre-course reading completed.
In my mind you are restoring a frequency scope that was used to tune Radios and television.
📻📺
Devices of that era remind me of the box containing the alien in the Outer Limits episode “Don't Open Till Doomsday”
If that were the case then I must have a lot of those aliens around here. I have lots of old gear fro. The 40s, 50s, 60's 😊
Can't wait to see the restoration!
Its a supreme 555 but the ossiloscope tube has been upggraded to a bigger one
Exactly. That's what the front lettering was shouting out. Things like that are why I wish he had real-time comments. I wanted to post it, but there was nowhere he'd see it in real-time.
I agree, the search I did shows that this device is a cathode ray tube analyzer number 555 by Supreme Instruments and was called a Diagnomoscope.
Kind of neat that there is another spectacular device with 555 in the number.
Nothing more satisfying than a smooth operating gear reduction dial!
That thing as an art deco masterpiece! It looks like a prop from a 30s Universal monster movie.
Looking forward to another grand restoration of a historic piece of Americana. Thanks, Paul!
Thanks! Glad you enjoy these!
It's not often that we see Mr Carlson scratching his head in bewilderment! For me, I look forward to watching the restoration of this equipment, and I will have my favourite beverage to hand, Navy rum.
Gorgeous piece of engineering and design. Does look like a piece of SCI-FI rocket command center gear from a black & white film of days gone by; perhaps 1930s art deco as someone else suggested .... just beautiful. Looking forward to seeing the restoration and power-up. Hopefully this was the bench model, and not the portable version! 🙂 Thank you for sharing and your work to preserve history and the engineering and true artistry of these old rigs 42-Jack
You find the coolest stuff Mr. C. It's going to be an interesting restoration for sure.
@6:30 I'm just waitin' for a squirrel...er...power unit to jump out.
Wonderful device!!!! Wonderful piece of art!!!
Straight out of a 40s scifi movie, it's a beauty
would love to see it fire up again would be quite the challenge. fun watch and more learning!
Paul, you come up with some great finds!! Always fun to watch along with you! Cheers and 73
Thanks! Glad you enjoy it.
Exciting stuff indeed!! Can't wait for the restoration videos!!
Taylor, Pearson & Carson was a radio and TV operator that became Selkirk Communications.
Likely a test rig to test transmitter components.
looks like an incredible restoration is in store, cool I look forward to it! mike
It's Dr. Emilio Lizardo's prototype oscillation over-thruster!
Rather think it is early Scientology brain transfuser... Just saying.... :-)
that looks like it will be a fun restore. I am looking forward to that video.
Hello Mr Carlson! This mysterious device is probably a spectrum analyser for monitoring radio frequencies. It could have been used in the radio measuring service to examine the transmission quality of radio transmitters or to analyse radio interference.
A few years ago I restored a PANORAMA EMPFÄNGER 36 MHz with ZUSATZEMPFÄNGER TYPE ECFs. Manufacturer was Plisch Viernheim
The former is the basic device with cathode ray tube. With centre frequency 36 MHz +/- 4 MHz for scanning the spectrum. The additional receiver is a super, which mixes the VHF channels 1 to 12 and UHF 470 MHz to 970 MHz down to IF = 36 MHz.
The span of the panorama receiver is 1 MHz (exact scanning of the spectrum), 7 MHz (video signal), 9 MHz (video signal + sound).
The scanning frequencies are 50 Hz to 30 Hz and 50 Hz synchronised to the mains frequency. The RBW was selected accordingly (signal delay through filter).
Both devices were used in the terrestrial distribution network of the Federal Republic of Germany. They were helpful in troubleshooting when, for example, a television transmitter had no sound or had completely failed.
In any case, an interesting project that probably shows a spectrum analyser from the early days. This is also supported by the transducer you discovered, which changes its inductance analogue to the sawtooth frequency for the X deflection of the picture tube. This inductance forms a resonant circuit and generates the frequency for the second mixer. This results in the display of a voltage above the frequency in the picture tube.
The first mixer brings the reception frequency into the reception range of the second mixer.
All of this is achieved without complex calibration. At that time, people were delighted with a meaningful spectrum. Have fun restoring this mysterious device!
It's gear from the Cat Detector Van from the Ministry of Howzinge. Their equipment can pinpoint a purr at 400 yards. And Eric, being such a happy cat, was a piece of cake...
I see what you did.
It was spelt like that on the van.
You're a looney!
I assure you, you do not need a fish license.
@@marlomontanaro3233 Look, it's a bleeding pet, isn't it? I've got a license for me pet dog Eric, I've got a license for me pet cat Eric.
Greetings from Germany..... I like the color silver idea for the side panels would look good. Looking forward for a possible restoration.
Wow Paul, i dont know where you find this cool stuff but i am definatley looking forward to seeing this restoration, especially with the bread oven/ paint booth.... 73 de WD8JM
1:38 - I'm guessing it was upgraded with a larger CRT.
Its late here in TN. Dont care. Ima working man. Monday moning comes early. But Ima grab some coffee. See where this takes me. Thanks Mr. Carlson. Made my night bud.
You are very welcome!
That is peak Streamline Moderne. Gorgeous styling!
It needs tail fins!
Edit: I can't take credit for that. Gary Larson's Far Side cartoon did this back in the 90's.
I absolutely love The Far Side comic strip, my favorite is the cavemen having a lecture about the “Thagomizer.”
This is somebody's idea of an all-in-one bench instrument. Maybe. Signal generator and o'scope. Or sweep generator with a demodulated RF display on the screen for tuning RF and IF stages?
Fascinating modern archaeology.....
You did well to get away with just a burn. I am guessing the EHT could be 60 Hz derived and therefore lethal and TV technicians have been killed servicing early TV sets of this type!
Is this definitely an IF TV alignment generator? If not, could it be a panoramic receiver?
TV IFs confirm to fairly well defined frequencies. The dial seems to cover a number of radio bands.
OMG! Those Deco knobs!
Stunning piece of gear. As are your knowledge, drive and entusiasm. Looking forward to see the resturationvideo. Many thanks for what you are showing us.