Warehouse 13 Password Cracker

[PeterLC]

Anyone have an ideas about what the brass/copper "end caps" might be on this prop?

They could the "roses" from a brass door knob set or maybe the end caps from a brass tubing bed. The holes in the middle may or may not have been added for the prop. It's also possible that the tube part and and caps are from a single item - maybe even some kind of container but I'm thinking not.

Also if the tubing is a standard diameter then the end caps must be too. Maybe 65mm in diameter (2.5" roughly).

I thought someone might recognise them from the profile of the stepping in the metal.

 

[TK570]

My guess would be from a fishing reel since they raided some fishing gear for the Tesla gun and the Farnsworth had some relation to fishing as well.

Anyway, that's my guess.

Lonnie
Tk570

 

[division 6]

Didn't someone id it as a desk calender?

 

[n0x23]

It's hard to tell from the pictures, but it looks like an end-cap to an old, brass, embalming syringe....

...this isn't an exact match, but it might lead you in the right direction.

 

[PeterLC]

Yeah Lonnie

I had thought that a possibility too. Might even be the end pieces off the reel used in the Tesla (if it was a fishing reel).

Peter

My guess would be from a fishing reel since they raided some fishing gear for the Tesla gun and the Farnsworth had some relation to fishing as well.

Anyway, that's my guess.

Lonnie
Tk570

 

[PeterLC]

It is a very good thought actually and one that hadn't occurred to me. I hadn't seen that mentioned anywhere. I hadn't seen any mention of this prop at all before but it is easy to miss things with the mass of stuff going on in the RPF.

Didn't someone id it as a desk calender?

 

[Kylash]

variation. or it just has an extending cable.

 

[PeterLC]

Yeah I grabbed those images too. I can't quite tell if they plugged on an extension cable or just changed the "cable" itself. The original one was just a USB plug jammed on the end of a piece of brass tube.

variation. or it just has an extending cable.

 

[PeterLC]

Was just having a closer look and it appears they've changed that end of the unit slightly. There seems to be a little "mound" in the middle now with a shorter piece of brass tubing and a cable coming out of it.

 

[blackkat]

The end caps look a lot like the end caps from a grandfather clock weight.
The whole "cracker" could be the casing of one weight with slots cut for the counters.

 

[Riceball]

I might be off a bit here but could they be caps from a door knob or dead bolt set?

 

[PeterLC]

We pretty much know the whole thing including endcaps was an old brass perpetual desk calendar though it will be virtually impossible to find. I did get some door knob roses that while not really as close as I'd like might might look OK. I'll try to take a pic and post it. It can always be rebuilt if I ever find the calender. The other option was to get someone to turn them for me from brass stock.

I did find some silimar calendars but they were way too small in scale.

 

[juno]

Can you post photos of those calendars? I don't think the date openings are really correct for what we're seeing in the photos.

 

[punisher]

do you mean a calendar like this?

 

[juno]

Yeah, but look at the openings.

 

[juno]

Perhaps it's just a brass tube with holes cut out and stepper motor counters mounted.

For fun, look up brass arithometers.

 

[PeterLC]

Yeah, but look at the openings.

Imagine how many of those types of calendars would have been made over the last couple of hundred years with many variations of "windows". The one shown is a modern reproduction of an old style of calendar. The prop guy would have simply extended the windows that were there.

As I said it's unlikely I'd ever find the exact same model so it's unlikely I'd end up with the same endcaps. The tube part is easy but for the ends it will probably just have to be something similar unless fabricated.

I've never seen an "arithmometer" (counter) housed in something like this. Sure one could use the innards of one or two but essentially a car's odometer is one of them and cheap to get at a wrecker. Here is a cheap manual one that could be gutted for parts

 

[DARTH SABER]

The fact that the password cracker only has wo large slots for numbers makes me think that it was made from a cannibalized perpetual calendar parts.

the brass endcaps and inner number wheels probably came off of a P calandar, and the body of the tube was custom made from plastic tubing.


OR...It was probably made from a vintage cipher code machine (Cipher wheel) like this one -

DS

 

[juno]

I still don't think its a perpetual calendar. Show me one with just two slots, or one that could be cut to resemble the prop and I'll be a believer! :cool

 

[propologist]

ends could be rosettes from lamps or similar..Vase Cap is another one I searched and found many similar results , Cigar tubes , Telescope caps...

if you google " Cifial rosettes"

it also looking like a older door bell button , similar to this one