Put - your coffee - DOWN!! - Page 1
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author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 02:00:20 pm
content: SERIOUSLY.It's only 2 minutes long, but don't watch this with coffee anywhere near you - or you might as well just pour it over your screen, keyboard and desk right now......

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 02:17:41 pm
content: I seem to remember troubleshooting one once. Seemed like the best solution was to replace with the nearly equivalent Siemens one, which did have the advantage over the Rockwell of using all metric threads and bearings, plus alignment was easier, you did not need the slings, chain blocks and sledge hammers required for the Rockwell, this was easy to do with only a percussion drill, some 32mm bits and some minor adjustment with nitrogen tetroxide and 93 percent hydrogen peroxide.

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 02:58:35 pm
content: It's like watching an episode of Star Trek Voyager but without seven of Nine's cleavage.

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 03:00:42 pm
content: Is this something to do with the manufacture of erasable write only memory?

author: Jeroen3
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 03:06:57 pm
content: I recognize that text, I've heard it before. The Turbo Encabulator.

author: lem_ix
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 03:52:17 pm
content: That's just brilliant, good tip for the coffeeNow need to find a logarithmic casing for my current project

author: Tinkerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 10:07:51 pm
content: Quote from: Jeroen3 on January 31, 2016, 03:06:57 pmUtterly great video. Saw this one a few years back. There have been copycats of that, but it really doesnt seem like anything comes close to this original.

author: rich
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 11:18:54 pm
content: The notes for the 'original' are also interesting. I'll quote them here for those watching in embed-o-vision:" This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn't be alone. We had just finished a production for GMC Trucks and Bud asked since this was the perfect setting could we film his Turbo Encabulator script. He was using an audio prompter referred to as "the ear". He was actually the pioneer of the ear. He was to deliver a live speech without a prompter. After struggling in his hotel room trying to commit to memory he went to plan B. He recorded it to a large Wollensak reel to reel recorder and placed it in the bottom of the podium. With a wired earplug he used it for the speech and the "ear" was invented. Today every on-camera spokesperson uses a variation of Bud's innovation. Dave Rondot (me) was the director and John Choate was the DP on this production. The first laugh at the end is mine. My hat's off to Bud a true talent. "

author: Muxr
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 11:35:39 pm
content: Quote from: rich on January 31, 2016, 11:18:54 pmInteresting tidbit Rich, thanks.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 31, 2016, 11:38:21 pm
content: I found a version 2 of that. It includes some interesting 'historical' and 'bibliographic' details...

author: lowimpedance
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 01, 2016, 12:10:44 am
content: Made my eyes water.I dunno how that guy kept a straight face through all that gobbledygook.Quote from: German_EE on January 31, 2016, 02:58:35 pmIndeed ............. Definately lacked cleavage.

author: timb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 01, 2016, 01:50:38 am
content: Quote from: Brumby on January 31, 2016, 11:38:21 pmThere's a third version too with the same presenter, it also goes into the diagnostic methods. Can't seem to find it at the moment.