Geoff,

Thanks for sharing the details of your installation.

I just added eight new photos, the better ones to the STS-2 photos.  
They show the view from the top and the details of the sensor.

http://www.osop.com.pa/whats-inside-the-sts-2-seismometer/

Regards,


Angel





On 04/21/2013 07:49 PM, Geoff wrote:
> On 4/20/2013 6:38 PM, sismos@.............. wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have started a section at the OSOP we page that will be called 
>> "What's Inside".  Mostly it will be photos of seismometers I have 
>> taken apart.  I will also post pictures of the insides of digitizers, 
>> radios and most anything that I happen to get into.
>>
>> I will start with a bit about an STS-2 that filled up with ants.
>>
>> http://www.osop.com.pa/2013/04/19/whats-inside-an-sts-2-seismometer-ants/ 
>>
>>
>> If any of you have pictures of the insides of anything interesting 
>> let me know.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Angel
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>
>
>
> Vely Interessting,
>
> To share with you my own installation.
>
> I dug a hole.
> Put three holes in the bottom of a zinc plated steel trash can.
> I pounded three tar coated surveyor stakes into the ground
> leaving six inches of stake above the ground to level later.
> I placed the can into the hole with the three stakes
> coming through the bottom of the can with gaps between
> the holes and stakes the can went over.
> I took a heavy polished marble tile and glued
> it with goop after leveling the stakes.
> I gooped the geophone to the mable tile
> after placing it on the tile.
> I wired the geophone but used the wrong conduit.
> PVC instead of galvanized steel.
> It was cheaper.
> I insulated the Can lid with spray foam.
> I put chemical cat litter in long socks
> tied dental floss to the socks and lowered them into the can
> around the geophone.
> I put the lid back onto the can.
> The lid is sitting on the can with its rim
> just above the4 ground.
>
> It has now been that way several years with no problems
> other the hot summer days.
>
> The most difficult thing was pounding the stakes into
> the hole and getting it right.
> You really need a special tool to
> do this thing right.
> To get the stakes both vertical
> and in position and in the correct triangle
> for leveling the tile.
>
> I would be too old to do this thing again
> without dieing of a heart attack.
>
> Cheers,
> geoff
>
>
>

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