On 4/22/2013 12:49 AM, 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
>
>
>
I guess you can call me "chicken" because
showing the guts to NEW things might
be called reverse engineering.
I have made agreements with companies
which I worked for that threw the fear of
GOD into your soul about making such
things public. Maybe it does not apply to
the general public. Maybe you are located
in a country where reverse engineering
would not make you be a spy.
If the technology is more than like 10 years old
and the patent has died then no problemo.
People must pay monies to keep their
patent in force, not everyone is willing
to do this. Good luck, and may the force
be with you.
But if its any consolation, those companies I worked for
would use their best minds to tear into other
peoples products looking for undocumented features.
To me thats one industry going against its own
value system.
The law is so complex and screwed up
when it comes to science and technology.
People are afraid of their own shadows.
HERE, It might get someone more like a witch trial
rather than real justice.
I'm in the USA, what country are you from ?

Regards,
geoff

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Entropy is the seeking of equilibrium.
It is by the Entropy that I set my mind in motion.
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Rligion is the science,
of placing blame,
where it does not belong.

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