Just a guess here but could it be an optical scanner for taking a 3-D picture of an item for CAD processing?   I saw a couple of years ago at a machinists trade show a 3-D printer that was coupled with a laser/optical scanner whatever was placed in the box with the scanner was copied by the printer in just a few minutes.  It had an X,Y,Z table with a rotating scan head above it.   


Pat  

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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 2:06 PM
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There has been a problem with Dropbox. It works now.
Comparator..nyeeao.................doesn't look like them we have.

Inge

On 22 February 2013 22:23, Ed Popielarski <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Inge,
>
> What you might be describing is an optical comparator. I looked and 
> there is no picture of such thing in dropbox.
>
> Ed Popielarski
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> Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - The Answer
>
> Hi, a year back or so, a friend of mine called me. The great madness 
> was going on at the company where I used to work. Restructuring, 
> reorganization, reborn, lots of re.  Lots of machines and instruments 
> were thrown in big containers. My friend felt sad seeing production- 
> and lab equipment in the (once) million dollar level be cast out. 
> Among them a remarkable instrument ,named " Micro Dynavision". Nobody 
> knew who had bought the instrument and none had a clew what was the 
> use of it. And there was no interest from anyone to have it. So, I got 
> it. The cost is said to have been about 50,000 ...20 years ago. Now. 
> The instrument is a wonder of mechanical precision, with numerous 
> Loctite'd adjustment screws, three precision xyz digitizer bars 
> (encoders), three light sources and a vision optic system with 
> something that starts spinning when you switch on the Instrument. It's 
> a heavy thing, weight about 50 kilograms. A computer belonged to it, 
> but it was thrown before I got the machine. There are no servos, but 
> you move the table with two micrometer. Has anybody ever seen this machine, and what is it made for?
>
> I place a photo in my Dropbox under NTC
>
> Inge
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