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The fact that it looks that good is amazing.
Is there any voltage present on any of the cells?
Is there any voltage present on any of the cells?
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It probably came from a forklift or one of those electric carts.
About .6V per cell and 3.2V total. Cells are dry.
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Impressive for a sixty year old battery.
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That is truly amazing they still have life in them.
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Was it ever filled?
Nuke detonations are easy to spot.
Bright flash and a loud bang followed by a severe sun burn.
Negative.
Bright flash and a severe sun burn followed by a loud bang. Something like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qOxicZde0
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I don't even want to guess where you are finding this stuff.
Let me know if you find the crates full of new in cosmoline Indian scouts and Harley WLAs!
Let me know if you find the crates full of new in cosmoline Indian scouts and Harley WLAs!
An old USAF test site. Some documentation I have found on the project says it was funded in 1966 by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The site is now owned by UAF whom I am working with to reoccupy several of these sites.
What, no interest in the crates of Thompsons? Ok, nevermind...
What, no interest in the crates of Thompsons? Ok, nevermind...
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I used to love clearing out old NG warehouses. 
The weirdest thing I ever found was a French mine field! In the US!
The weirdest thing I ever found was a French mine field! In the US!
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Wow. Talk about over engineered! Makes me feel bad for tossing mine in a milk crate. 
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I believe that is the equivalent of a modern day CD case... Perhaps some kind of data tape case.
Last year UAF attempted to extract Jethro without my help, although I was on site to witness the attempt. They preferred a brute force method over my finessing. They failed. In fact, they broke the recovery hook. Jethro remained hung up on a weld seam about 14ft down. After the winter to think about it, we returned last week for attempt two.
The UAF boys were late, so I hiked/snowshoed up to the site to get things prepped. I'm heading for that tower over my shoulder and about 2miles up this snow-covered access road, then partway down the other side of the mountain.
Do you see the site yet?
How about now?
A little probing locates the access hatch and I get her open.
Finally, the UAF boys show up in their snowmachine towing about 800lbs of steel. They got stuck a lot. They should have brought a snowcat, like maybe a 601...
That oddly cut piece of steel is going to be their extraction tool. Good luck wit dat. For scale, it's about 12" in diameter.
The UAF boys were late, so I hiked/snowshoed up to the site to get things prepped. I'm heading for that tower over my shoulder and about 2miles up this snow-covered access road, then partway down the other side of the mountain.
Do you see the site yet?
How about now?
A little probing locates the access hatch and I get her open.
Finally, the UAF boys show up in their snowmachine towing about 800lbs of steel. They got stuck a lot. They should have brought a snowcat, like maybe a 601...
That oddly cut piece of steel is going to be their extraction tool. Good luck wit dat. For scale, it's about 12" in diameter.
They set up a hydraulic press system on top of the well casing, lowered the tool, gave it a twist to lock onto the sensors upper holelock dogs, and began pushing (pulling). At first, nothing. Just as the system registered 20Tons of upward force, there was a TWANG!. The pressure dropped to under 10Tons and the sensor began inching up the casing. So after two days of pulling about 3" at a time, then re-setting the hydraulic press and pulling another 3", 4/5ths of the sensor emerges from the well. 
The bottom dogs and bulbous lower fifth remain at 14ft. Time to return to UAF and think about plan 'C'.
The bottom dogs and bulbous lower fifth remain at 14ft. Time to return to UAF and think about plan 'C'.
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Hmm, what's that little steel can in the bottom of the last picture? It can be accessed from a hatch on the side of the instrument. It actually looks like a hatch you'd see on the side of a bomb in one of those spy-type terrorists-have-the-bomb movies. Do I need a plastic screwdriver and should I make sure I have nothing metal or magnetic on me? Naw, let's just crack her open and see what falls out...
Well, lah-dee-dah! it is a 1966 Bendix Directional Displacement Gyroscope, part of the CB-60 Compass System in aircraft. Looks like the USAF used their own surplus to help construct this instrument. This would have been used to orient the sensor after it was placed downhole.
Well, lah-dee-dah! it is a 1966 Bendix Directional Displacement Gyroscope, part of the CB-60 Compass System in aircraft. Looks like the USAF used their own surplus to help construct this instrument. This would have been used to orient the sensor after it was placed downhole.
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Sorry, hate busting the subject on someones thread, but to clear up some info here, there were BB's.
You can find the info from any serach engine, I also saw one at Aberdeen back in he 70's at the museum!
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You can find the info from any serach engine, I also saw one at Aberdeen back in he 70's at the museum!
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