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falcon409

falcon409

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I know someone here knows the correct nomenclature for this item. I need to find a good clear image that I can use for the work I'm doing on the OV-10 consoles.
Thanks in advance!!:salute:
 
If I'm not mistaken, that's the head of a screw. Phillips, to be exact!

34-Phillips.jpg


Or, find your flavor http://www.google.com/search?q=airc....,cf.osb&fp=cd29ec69becdaaf7&biw=1920&bih=857
 
In all honesty, it looks like the pulley off the front of a GM/Oldsmobile engines alternator. but since you say it gows on the panel, i'm at a loss. wityh that raised center, it doesnt look like a screw head to me. Perhaps a tuning ring from an antique radio ???
 
Hard to tell from that picture but it almost looks like those push on end caps you see to hold wheels onto shafts as fitted to kids wagons.
 
Those are console lightbulb sockets/covers/soyoucanchangebulbsthingy
Official name?
Panel Illumnination Recepticle?
 
Thanks everyone. Ok, I just noticed that they are used on the T-37 panel, so tomorrow (oops, today I mean) I'll be driving over to the airport (about 3 miles) and getting some close-ups of the item on the "Tweet in residence".:salute:
 
falcon409 said:
I know someone here knows the correct nomenclature for this item. I need to find a good clear image that I can use for the work I'm doing on the OV-10 consoles.
Thanks in advance!!:salute:
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m113a2driver.jpg


OK, not the best picture, but it is a bulb cover for earlier generation guages. They unscrewed off and were painted plastic caps, in this case a few have centers unpainted and raised to emit a bit of light, while others would remain unpainted and light gauges around the bulb.

Matt
 
In the RN we called them Pillar lights they are used to illuminate the panel from behind (ie they screw into a perspex cover with the front painted black), the lettering on the panel is then etched and filled with white paint and the areas around the gauges are bevelled, that way the white lettering and area around the gauges illuminate when the panel lights are turned on.




Bruce
 
is a plastic nut, is what holds the panel in place, and how it is to be tighten by hand have those rebounds.

the bulbs are higher and has a side opening, none of the above photos as this. i will try to find a photo.

i'm a amt! :jump:


:ernae:
 
res non verba said:
is a plastic nut, is what holds the panel in place, and how it is to be tighten by hand have those rebounds.

the bulbs are higher and has a side opening, none of the above photos as this. i will try to find a photo.

i'm a amt! :jump:


:ernae:
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Here you can see it clearly

Intercom-unit-A37-002.jpg
 
yes you find it typically in a military cockpit. i worked with c-130 and they have a lot. i will ask a B2(Avionics), i'm a B1 (Mechanical) :salute:
 
If I remember correctly this type beamed the light sideways into the perspex panels so that it showed up in the etched areas, lettering & lines
 
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