For people who aren't already aware of this gem of history, it's going to sound like you're having a stroke! Beautiful find, I had no idea these came in the micro form factor.
Can confirm 😂 I am currently working on my Bachelor's in Mechatronics and this is an amazing piece of electro-mechanical history. I can't believe I am just now learning about encabulators! Truly an ingenious solution ahead of their time. I aspire to be as innovative as the engineers who created these devices.
What I appreciate most is the attention to detail with the packaging. The part number, obviously one step down from the turbo unit, and the aging on the box *chefs kiss*
That was right up there with the National Semiconductor's write only memory chip. That breakthrough of course made future microencabulators twice as small as they used to be. This really helped solve the safety issue of certain vulnerable people being sucked in by the esoteric vacuum printer cereal port. Even as a skilled and highly trained operator, I got my head stuck in one for over an hour once. I was saved by the east coast power blackout caused by the darned thing overheating. Thank Gord for those no-blow fuses! Thanks for the romp down memory lane!
most of the existing microencabs have been broken up & parted out for "retro" vx rigs - great to see one in good condition that'll actually stay in a good home
Dude, you broke RU-vid's captioning algorithm. A tube like that in the center appeared on my desk when I increased the frequency of my flux generating machine. Had it recorded on video.
My father worked on the original turbo and I fondly remember when he'd bring me to work and let me throw the prototype's very satisfying "ON" knife switch.
Before turning it on, I recommend performing an industrial Ground Bond test, which is also referred to as the Earth Circuit Continuity for Protective Bonding Resistance (ECCPBR) test for Class 1 electrical products. Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1963 ed., §304 (July 26, 1935, ch. 697, §7, 149 Stat. 512a). The FCC CFI specifically states: § 120.372 Electromechanical Equipment grounding (a) All metallic enclosures and secondary windings of electrical equipment must be permanently grounded to the hull, or nearest Earth Terminal. (b) On nonmetallic vessels, the encabulator frame must be bonded with a common ground by a normally non-current carrying primary conductor. (c) All conductivity must range between 0.05 and 0.07 millimhos (or millisiemens) per kilogram of conductance..
Holy crap, I worried so much during the unboxing he was going to drop and break it. Imagine getting hold of such a rare item and then dropping it on the concrete floor.
damn you even found out the general electric one and not the cheap knockoffs from that time. amazing specimen. so glad you decided to share. also very important is something that many youngsters don't know, the modern digital ones, at least the entry level ones, have issues in low current situations so instead of using a step up connection for the encabulator, you can achieve the same result with any old analogue ones you may find around in your university lab. that is a free tip for those doing their master.
You did this so well. It was my first time ever hearing about this thing and your presentation was key to my experiencing this thing as it was intended.
Oh wow now that's *glorious*. Apart from the marketing materials, I'd never even seen the full size unit! I don't think I knew that there was such a small variant - I genuinely thought that the polyreactance antidiscriminator simply couldn't have been made any smaller. What an amazing find!
You had me for about 7:12 , before I googled to see what the hell you were talking about. I thought I’d fallen asleep and missed the start of the video to know what it was .. well done it made my Friday
I remember having seen one of that on one of my grandfather's old gyroscopic propulsor, he used to work as a technician in a local industry, so he used to bring home some spare parts from his job, good memories. All he left us before passing away were some bautiful scans of technical drawings, stored on mechanical bands.
I recognized most of it from my time in a geotechnical soil properties lab but it looks like a newer one than one we had. Good move not turning it on, @MrCarlsonsLab would probably have some safety tips before you do that. Can't believe you found one!
How can you say, that a micro encabulator is anything like the turbo? The scaling of the mancatrons is absolutely off and the resulting syncharion waves are useless above a couple densims!
Make absolutely certain that you have calibrated the inverse capacitance bias modulation rectifier to factory specified tolerances before you risk turning it on. I'm sure you remember what happened at Chernobyl back in '86. Just sayin'...
What a rarity indeed! A thing of beauty, a joy for ever. I love the nerdy yet technical April Fools videos. I was going to make one about the Keritech Electronics Super-Combobulator9000 but had some problems that kept me from doing that. It has a very nice pressure switch and regulator though... just don't damage the mercury switch and you'll be fine. Congrats on 10K :)
it may *may* be possible to cut that odd gear (stator slots) on a rotary broach. the shape could be carefully drawn with something akin to a spirograph/cycloid. I'm neither a machinist nor a particularly good mathematician, but the gear reduction isn't dependent on the scale, so long as the parts' scale is the same, so you might not even have to have a very good ruler! it also looks like a combination of circular arcs not that I think about it. might be possible to draw them with just a compass and a straightedge!
Corporations being creative in 1944: “the turbo encabulator” Corporations being creative in 2024: “if we sell all but the our least profitable business units to a numbered Delaware corporation, and leave our pension responsibilities attached to the old company, then let that company go bankrupt, then we can re-acquire our name back during the bankruptcy restructuring while also shedding all of that bad debt!”
🤯 Uhhhhh......me no speak a duh Greek. Lol! That was a lot of electro-scientifical mumbo jumbo jargon that just threw my dynatimer into a self destruct sequence that has me light headed and looking at a vertexical void while trying to measure the helium light bands of my floor. 🫠🫥😶🌫️ Fade to ultraviolate.
This comment section is way too eager. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we get it, you're in on rhe joke. Congratulations. Very impressive. It stopped being funny a few dozen comments ago. For anyone not sure what they're watching, this is an April Fools "joke". Every word of it is completely fictional technical nonsense. It's based on a very old parody of a tech promotional video for the "turboencabulaotor". No such thing exists, nor does this "micro" variety.
