I worked as a trainee in an American Military Phone switching plant in Munich in the late sixties. All of the equipment was installed in 1936. The glass batteries were in a special room in the basement, all safety coded, looking brand new. The maintenance staff for the switching equipment was mostly older German ladies. They had worked in the factories during WWII. All of the fine winding of coils was done by ladies' hands. Great staff to work with, lots of practical jokes, including sewing my overalls shut. What was also interesting is that the cleaning fluid for the relays was known to be toxic back in the thirties already and the relays were placed in a glass enclosure and you put on sealed rubber gloves to touch the equipment.
Selsyns! I worked for a steel mill and 60 hz selsyns were used in the 1970 vintage control system. They could take the heat in the field, and the recievers were mechanically hitched to digital encoders in the safety of the control room. At that point, General Electric dominated US steel mill control.
One thing about the Germans; They made things precise and durable. Too bad they were too stubborn to realize that the British had figured out the Enigma code and invented the magnetron radar tube.
It is an interesting design, one complex in the trademarked German way. I wonder what classification it has as an antenna tuner. I imagine it was intended to tune a short antenna to operate on the lower HF frequencies. It seems to resemble the much simpler design in American Command sets.
fantastic piece of engineering. Love the AC motor technology. I used to look at Selsyn motors way back.. they were used also on motion picture duplication machines.
sorry to be offtopic but does any of you know of a method to get back into an Instagram account? I somehow lost my account password. I would love any assistance you can offer me.
@Nicolas Achilles i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and im waiting for the hacking stuff now. I see it takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
I worked as a trainee in an American Military Phone switching plant in Munich in the late sixties. All of the equipment was installed in 1936. The glass batteries were in a special room in the basement, all safety coded, looking brand new. The maintenance staff for the switching equipment was mostly older German ladies. They had worked in the factories during WWII. All of the fine winding of coils was done by ladies' hands. Great staff to work with, lots of practical jokes, including sewing my overalls shut. What was also interesting is that the cleaning fluid for the relays was known to be toxic back in the thirties already and the relays were placed in a glass enclosure and you put on sealed rubber gloves to touch the equipment.
Probably Carbon Tetrachloride which was banned for most uses by the 80's.
Pretty cool that the variable inductor has a spherical(ish) core. I wonder if they had ferrite back then or it was just a chunk of iron?
The Germans had developed advanced ferrite for coils.
Great mechanism.
FANTASTIC
amazing German technology wow
Во деды наизобретали! Супер агрегат!
Invented as grandfathers! Super unit!
hehe my Grandfather works with the FUG10 tuner ;) in 1944/45 ;)
Tecnologia Germanica ! 25 anos`à frente naquela época !!
German engineering! Always at the top!
Damn good looking
Is that the tuning coil? rotating so it doesn't have to look like the American models of being just a spring with different connecting points.
Magnífico
that's a crazy contraption
Сделано на века! Настоящее немецкое качество!
Nice video.
selsyns 50 or 400 Hz?
Selsyns! I worked for a steel mill and 60 hz selsyns were used in the 1970 vintage control system. They could take the heat in the field, and the recievers were mechanically hitched to digital encoders in the safety of the control room. At that point, General Electric dominated US steel mill control.
All of older antenna tuners I've worked on were for Aircraft HF radio's and the Servo's, Synchros and motors were 400 HZ 26 VAC or 115 VAC.
One thing about the Germans; They made things precise and durable. Too bad they were too stubborn to realize that the British had figured out the Enigma code and invented the magnetron radar tube.
The Magnetron was already invented !
rationalguy. The magnetron was developed in 1920 by the Swiss scientist Heinrich Greinacher!
But the transistor "invented " by Bell in 1947... It seems to me they only made it functional.
I guess they don't have stepper motors back then
It is an interesting design, one complex in the trademarked German way. I wonder what classification it has as an antenna tuner. I imagine it was intended to tune a short antenna to operate on the lower HF frequencies. It seems to resemble the much simpler design in American Command sets.
fantastic piece of engineering. Love the AC motor technology. I used to look at Selsyn motors way back.. they were used also on motion picture duplication machines.
sorry to be offtopic but does any of you know of a method to get back into an Instagram account?
I somehow lost my account password. I would love any assistance you can offer me.
@Kamryn Shepherd instablaster :)
@Nicolas Achilles i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and im waiting for the hacking stuff now.
I see it takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Nicolas Achilles it worked and I actually got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thank you so much, you saved my account :D
@Kamryn Shepherd glad I could help xD
You've got to be kidding me...
cool gizmo!!!!
Villken mekanik!
neat
I like your radio video-
I have Luftwaffe Heinkel 51 radio tuner on e-bay right now-are you one of the future bidders??
Not a single word of explanation ... no comments ...
Maybe I should make a video explaining what's going on? I want to make a new video where I explain better. Thanks for the suggestion.
That would be really gratefull.
look like an evil grinder
Pretty slick device. Love the way the arm stops at the different stops. It *sounds* more like some kind of Luftwaffe torture device!
So complicated tuning system.
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