Old test equipment

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Deformation or hardness testing (or one heck of a stapler 🙂 )

-AK2DM

[RavensFan]

I think it is an "extensometer".  Used for tensile strength testing to measure the strain on the test sample to determine the Young's modulus and be able to see where the part has started yielding.  The lever was there so you could quickly take it off the test piece before it broke.

I'm not sure how you would use it with the dial indicator.  Probably just quickly writing down numbers as you went?  Ours had a cable to plug into the machine so it controlled the X-axis of the XY plotter.

[altenbach]

Looks like it could be used as a device to measure the tension of bike spokes when building a bike wheel.

[Ben]

I have been reworking my almost 100 year old house, and while tearing out this old wall...

I discovered THIS!

(smiley-wink)

Ben

[Jacobson-ni]

We were cleaning out a hardware cabinet a while ago and found this thing. It's not a cRIO 900x, 901x, or 902x.

I've never actually used it, but it makes a good desk ornament.

[Hooovahh]

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@Jacobson-ni wrote:

I've never actually used it, but it makes a good desk ornament.

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I remember working at a place where NI gave us a few pieces of equipment to test with, which were attempts at new platforms, in similar form factors.  The hardware was never actually sold by NI but they gave it to us to test with to see if it would work for our application.  Years later we came across it in a shelf of old equipment and it had a sticker on it saying to return to NI after some date that was a few years earlier.  I can't remember exactly what the thing was, but it was some kind of RT hardware.

[Jacobson-ni]

I forgot that I could hide the answer under a spoiler

Spoiler

NI cRIO-9052 StarFabric Interface

[altenbach]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

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 I can't remember exactly what the thing was, but it was some kind of RT hardware.

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Was it a cubix system?

[Hooovahh]

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@altenbach wrote:

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Was it a cubix system?

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Wuahhhh?  No it was not, to bad that is 12 years old and it isn't available.  

My hardware looked like a cRIO (I think 4 slot I can't remember) but the internals was replace by something completely different.  Now that I'm thinking back it is possible this was an ARM controller and maybe the beginning of their myRIO type hardware, running Linux RT.  I just remember having no driver support for the thing other than some beta device drivers that never made it to the public.  So the hardware was basically worthless to us.

[Henrik_Volkers]

If the current is a little higher :

A (retirered) 10µOhm, 23kA DC (100%) , 0.03% shunt 🙂

The small motor stirrs the coolant.   Impressive connectorplates.

Unfortunately too big for my collection 😞