Bump for any other pictures you might have Mike! 
Seaquest Darwin Vocorder
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HMS Mike
Sr Member
Bump for any other pictures you might have Mike!
Here ya Go,
If you want to see it larger you will have to go to my flicker.com page just search: propologist
HMS Mike
jackdoud
Sr Member
Closest I've found so far:
From this site:
http://www.spygearco.com/2.4GhzWirelessMotionFloodLightCameraSet-PE.htm
From this site:
http://www.spygearco.com/2.4GhzWirelessMotionFloodLightCameraSet-PE.htm
Those are great as well Mike! Thank you. If you have any other Seaquest prop pictures you'd like to share please post 'em or just put them in your Flickr gallery.
Yeah, that one looks real close. You can see that the aperture for the sensor is much wider and was modified for use on the prop.
That's where I'm at a disadvantage... I'm better at sourcing the found items and building from them than scratch building. :unsure
I recently won an older Fluke protective case on Ebay but when it arrived it was clearly not the right one used on the vocorder. Rib patterns were wrong and it had a clip on it... oh well, cost only $3.
Looks like the photo I had on my computer wasn't of the Vocorder, but of a wall mounted communication device.
I don't know if there are any common parts between the two, but the overall design is similar.
Not to get off track, but here's a little info on this other prop- it was a 'phone' device inside Brody's Dagger Island escape pod from the season 2 opener 'Daggers'. It wasn't actually used onboard the seaQuest itself. It was made from a maplight/compass/clock gadget sold back in the 90s- it was supposed to be stuck to the headliner of your car.
Mark
Bump for an awesome thread!
kca832
Active Member
I don't believe we cant figure out what was used to make the main body yet:cry
AnubisGuard
Master Member
BUMP!
After digging through lists of discontinued (read: old) Fluke case deigns, I found what seems to be the closest model yet to the prop. It's the Fluke C81Y.
It's the only one I've seen with the curved bottom profile with five ribs, as well as the thick edge bevel that stops about 2/3 up the length.
You'd have to trim the top lip, back "hooks" and the little bevel on the bottom, like so:
I can't see the top of the vocoder well enough to tell if it has five ribs up there, which would be the clincher, IMO.
Lately I've been watching saQuest on Netflix, and I'd really love to make one of these guys. Let's get the rest of it IDed! I know you can do it.
After digging through lists of discontinued (read: old) Fluke case deigns, I found what seems to be the closest model yet to the prop. It's the Fluke C81Y.
It's the only one I've seen with the curved bottom profile with five ribs, as well as the thick edge bevel that stops about 2/3 up the length.
You'd have to trim the top lip, back "hooks" and the little bevel on the bottom, like so:
I can't see the top of the vocoder well enough to tell if it has five ribs up there, which would be the clincher, IMO.
Lately I've been watching saQuest on Netflix, and I'd really love to make one of these guys. Let's get the rest of it IDed! I know you can do it.
Wow!! I think you've nailed the case. It's either the exact model or pretty darn close. Unless Mike has any photos of the backside... The five ribs at the bottom and the details on the side look spot on. Great job!
AnubisGuard
Master Member
"Pretty darn" close is about it. It does have the five ribs at the top, but the back doesn't match at all:
Notice the lack of those grooves used for storing the leads. Instead, it's got what appears to be an "E"-shaped raised section on the back near the top (under Lucas's index finger, with the bars of the "E" pointing down):
The C81Y is the closest model Fluke makes (well, made), and holsters get less and less similar as you look at other manufacturers. So who knows. For all we know, this is some weird no-name generic or knockoff case that someone had sitting in a box somewhere and we'll never ID it.
MoviefanAZ
Member
This thread is awesome!. I too recently went on a DSV marathon and was scrutinizing the same thing. I look reward to more info.
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AnubisGuard
Master Member
Cool. Glad to get word from the man himself.
I still think it's a case model we haven't found yet, but nice to get it narrowed down to Fluke for sure. Unless you guys filled in the grooves on the back – I've been under the impression these cases are soft vinyl, and you couldn't do that, but maybe not?
