[modeleng] Re: hand tacho.

On 9/16/07 8:58 AM, "Julian" <julianharrison7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have just bought an old-ish hand tachometer. It is a Smiths Industries
> "Venture" ATH6. It came with no instructions so I don't know whether it
> measures ft/sec or ft/min or rpm. Does anyone have any instructions for
> one of these? If so please can you scan and email to me. It looks to be
> around 70's 0r 80's as it has an 01 number for London. Belonged to an
> old engineer who died and his son sold contents of shed. Never been used
> as the unit was still sealed with the factory way seal.

There are one or two out there for auction. Given what Smiths has gone
through it might be hard to track down the "manufacturer", but you might
get some joy from a calibration service somewhere - not that you necessarily
want to calibrate this one, but a company that might calilbrate one could
well have documentation - or at least some answers. Someonw like

    http://www.electroservices.biz

for instance... ?

Tim
-- 
Tim Kirby                   trk@xxxxxxxxxx


MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST.

To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, 
modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.

Other related posts: