lonepigeon
Master Member
Re: Snowtrooper Ab/ Han's Hoth communicator DIsk research***ON HAND!!!***
Funny you should mention this. I just picked up a pile of them last month. More info soon
FYI I haven’t found them actually attached to anything but I believe they ARE from vintage microphones (CB or ham).
Like me with the Merr-Sonn scope:
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From the profile photos of the Model 44 and Power 5 versions, and from Chris Trevas' description of what the end looks like, it's a 4-pin CB/ham radio style plug... But I've never found one like this. Even ones that have the metal shield around the plastic plug (the prop is just spray-painted black). All have the threaded collar to lock the plug in place. All have the cord start coiling without the "kink" to make the whole thing linear, so the cord coils off at right angles (ish) to the plug. I've looked everywhere I can think of, online and off. I've pestered older guys into vintage eloctronics. I've gone through every use of this style of plug I've been able to find, from the time the design was patented on...
And, like the Snowtrooper belt buckle disc, we know it was 99% probably just some random, cheap, off-the-shelf part that got plundered along with everything else in the shop to go into the prop department's grab bin, and no one even thought once about it -- let alone twice.
Funny you should mention this. I just picked up a pile of them last month. More info soon
FYI I haven’t found them actually attached to anything but I believe they ARE from vintage microphones (CB or ham).