Any idea what this is?
Jan 2, 2021 17:10:28 #
petrochemist
Loc: UK
RickWindsor wrote:
The most important question to ask in this situation is, is it METRIC or STANDARD ?
What a stupid question, Metric is STANDARD.
Even in the USA your units are now defined using metric. The inch now being defined as 25.4mm...
Jan 2, 2021 17:18:59 #
petrochemist wrote:
What a stupid question, Metric is STANDARD.
Even in the USA your units are now defined using metric. The inch now being defined as 25.4mm...
Even in the USA your units are now defined using metric. The inch now being defined as 25.4mm...
It was humor, har, har...
(I think ya have to live here to get it though.)
Jan 2, 2021 17:23:46 #
10MPlayer wrote:
Y'all are all wrong. It's actually a gazinda. If you ever watched the Beverly Hillbillies you gotta know what a gazinda is. Something gazinda that thing and clamps down on it. Then they all hang together. Yep!
There's a chance it might be a gazouta - to the uninformed, a gazouta is a connection where stuff comes out.
Jan 2, 2021 18:34:45 #
Jan 2, 2021 19:20:37 #
petrochemist wrote:
What a stupid question, Metric is STANDARD.
Even in the USA your units are now defined using metric. The inch now being defined as 25.4mm...
Even in the USA your units are now defined using metric. The inch now being defined as 25.4mm...
If the question is bad, it is not because Metric is standard here.
Metric is not standard here, maybe better if it was, but not so, except in science and we seem to still lose a satellite or probe due to conversions. Conversion is standardization. Last night I saw a program on railways in Norway. Everything was stated in metric, which was fine, then they converted to US, most were correct, but 78 km of tunnels became 43 feet, since there over a 100, that meant tunnel is only~ 6 inches long, we don't even blast such little mountains here, just push then over. Also -40 C became 104 F, more like Arizona than Norway.
Camera equipment is a bad/poor area to argue this as I find it often to be both. Cameras mount to tripod plates using 1/4" or 3/8" threads, but Allen headed bolts or even counterweight shafts are metric. For large bolts, using different wrenches is often acceptable, 3/4" versus 17 mm ok, but for small Allen headed bolts or threads shafts, screwing in the wrong one is not a joke or fun to correct.
Questions may be funny, but never stupid, how we all learn. If you can't take the remarks as jokes, best not to say anything.
Jan 3, 2021 09:02:00 #
ELNikkor wrote:
The best way to find out what it is for, is to throw it away. In three days, you will not only find out what it is for, but you will have to go out and buy one just like it, or the expensive thing it goes on won't work at all! (Just my experience, probably no one else's...)
When in doutb throw it out!
Jan 3, 2021 10:16:34 #
Robertl594 wrote:
I found the instructional video for this. https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag
Very funny!! Plus the Buddy Hacket duck joke that follows made my day!
Jan 3, 2021 11:08:25 #
petrochemist
Loc: UK
JBRIII wrote:
If the question is bad, it is not because Metric i... (show quote)
While you don't use metric in everyday life, all the US customary units have been legally defined by reference to metric since 1958.
The pound is exactly 0.45359237kg, the Gallon is exactly 3.785411784 litres...
You are using metric as your standard even if you convert to other units every time you measure anything.
Camera equipment is indeed a particularly diverse combination even giving rise to things like the Leica thread mount 37mm diameter but at 26 tpi rather than the near identical metric pitch or 1 thread per mm.
Jan 3, 2021 11:46:55 #
Just because it can be converted to, or defined in, another system doesn't mean that that system is used.
Not too many people I know use furlongs per fortnight.
But I can convert it.
The key is the converting when necessary.
Not too many people I know use furlongs per fortnight.
But I can convert it.
The key is the converting when necessary.
Jan 3, 2021 12:11:31 #
Here is what my brother said when I asked him about this clamp. He has been in AV business for many years and knows the old and newer stuff.
"Shock mount for a mike, likely an older dynamic [one] by the size of the diameter."
--Richard
"Shock mount for a mike, likely an older dynamic [one] by the size of the diameter."
--Richard
Jan 3, 2021 19:33:09 #
hpucker99 wrote:
Glad (?) to see that I'm not the only one who throws isolated loose parts away only to discover their purpose too late.
Your screen name looks familiar, mine is Griffzky, and yes I wear number 99 and play hockey.
Jan 4, 2021 07:53:58 #
pol2015
Loc: Belfast
Dwiggy wrote:
I found this in an old photo bag and I don't know what it is. It looks like a clamp for a light or tripod. It has a screw that opens the clamp/round part. It has rubber grippers inside of the round part. No writing on it at all...no identification. Thanks for your help.
Looks identical to a mic clamp on my video camera (Google pics of a Panasonic DVX 200 or almost any other video cam). The rubber inserts (inside the tubing) are to dampen vibration.
Jan 4, 2021 08:44:47 #
It looks like a clamp for microphone, mounting on top of a larger video camera, like a shotgun microphone.
Jan 4, 2021 14:15:01 #
Jan 4, 2021 23:21:30 #
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