On 4/22/2013 1:21 AM, sismos@.............. wrote:
> 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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How In the milkyway can you afford such a device ?
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