My original BSG Cylon head

Seems to be some form of resin?? It goes between the helmet and the metal mouth. The mouth was a heatsink with the old circuit bouard for the eye placed there and a vacformed plastic cover screwed down over it.
 
Hey Sleepless long time no talk man. Hope all is well. Looking at your grill you have drill holes in yours, while mine is void of those pesky things. The same with my grill to helmet horse shoe shaped mount. Currently I have a back ground grill in my helmet.
 
"Heatsink"? What exactly do you mean?

I understand what you mean about the plastic cover on the backside. Do you have the plastic cover and circuit board?
 
The metal grill was a heat sink to absorb the heat the electronics generated. The original version that ILM (MCA 57) (Apogee) what ever you want to call it over built the scanners. Later on when Universal took over the complete production Hart Land made a much lighter version that didn't require that heavy metal plate. Sleepless has a version like mine, but his has screw holes. A plastic vac-formed tray was used to hold the electronics in the grill. My unit was taped down, while Sleepless had the screws.
 
It's so funny to hear folks say stuff like bsgollecting just said, "the original series was a bit before my time". Now at 42, I was 9 years old when the original show came out and grew up with it. I loved it and watched all the shows of the era, BSG, Buck Rogers, Incredible Hulk, Etc. now, The older I get the more I hear it. I remember telling a friend 10 years older then me the EXACT same thing in 1986 (when I was 17) about Star Trek. Why do we have to get old :-(
Love this thread gang!
Capedcollector
 
I hear it too from some of the guys I work with and I'm only 5 years older then a lot of them!

I remember watching the original Battlestar repeated on British tv on Saturdays right before they showed repeats of the A Team. Good times!
 
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