Hi mate, have you found information about those blue boxes?
Well, I looked up this thread to see just how long I'd been trying to figure out what the blue boxes were. Amazing that it took six years until someone ID'ed one.
The smaller one is a LaMotte Conductivity Meter. It got a nice closeup in a deleted scene which first appeared on the 35th anniversary Blu-Ray last year. Loren White not only made the identification, he also replicated one within a week of the Blu-Ray coming out, AND he's the person who procured the one I now have.
We've taken to calling it a "Gaspar's Meter" since that's how the storyboard artist referred to it. I go into more detail on that in this video shot yesterday.
Mine is a slight variation with two ports rather than one, but I'm still happy to have one.
Now if someone could just ID the *other* blue box from that scene, I'd have all the gear on that table. Here's a collage of all the best views of it from three scenes in the movie.
Any ideas what that one is?
And yes, I know we kinda hijacked the original topic of this thread. I am still hoping to obtain a Medrad Mark IV someday. I had a lead on one during quarantine, but the freight shipping to my location is always the dealbreaker.
Alex