The Wand Company TOS Tricorder is coming!

[Trooper_trent]

Actually, me too. Scrotal scarring and cysts are NOT fun!

I think we have officially DERAILED this thread. LOL
My apologies.

 

[FANATICO]

I understood that they intentionally didn't add a stop because it is seen being used in the series with the screen pointing almost straight up while hanging from the strap off the shoulder. I can't remember what blog post/video I saw that in but Chris mentioned specifically that they wanted to be able to recreate this feature for accuracy. I think he said there is a stop to prevent it from going back too far and damaging the wiring but it swivels further back so as to be able to recreate the "straight up" position.
EDIT: FOUND IT!!

So TWC based this 180 from the hood closed position on 1 episode that McCoy is holding it that way.

His explanation doesn’t go on further to say that McCoy or anybody for that matter would have been reading the display upside down in that straight up position.

LOL …I’m just shaking my head side to side…what’s even sadly funnier is that I don’t know if that 1 scene was from a memorable episode and typically referenced by the Star Trek fan base anywhere.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I think we have officially DERAILED this thread. LOL
My apologies.

Yes, the conversation did turn a bit nuts…!

 

[NakedMoleRat]

And yet, if the hood didn’t rotate 180°, there would have been somebody calling them out for it not being accurate!

You can’t please everybody.

But you sure can bring out the nit-pickers in the majority!

 

[FANATICO]

And yet, if the hood didn’t rotate 180°, there would have been somebody calling them out for it not being accurate!

You can’t please everybody.

But you sure can bring out the nit-pickers in the majority!

True that….I guess I’ll have to train reading the display upside down

Ohhh Yeahhh….this looks normal….even in the 22nd - 23rd centuries

 

[asalaw]

And yet, if the hood didn’t rotate 180°, there would have been somebody calling them out for it not being accurate!

You can’t please everybody.

But you sure can bring out the nit-pickers in the majority!

Found it--update #11. 170°.

 

[FANATICO]

Found it--update #11. 170°.

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Interesting…..

I’ve seen other designs based on nipple and detent combos for positive locking positions….never like what’s described above.

 

[asalaw]

Interesting…..

I’ve seen other designs based on nipple and detent combos for positive locking positions….never like what’s described above.

From further down the page of update #11:

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Deleted……

Better safe than sorry.

 

[Lost in Trek]

The hood on Wahs two tricorders and the fiberglass versions made by the studio all allowed the head to rotate past the aluminum bar.
That is accurate to the prop and it’s great that someone finally got this detail correct.

 

[FANATICO]

From further down the page of update #11:

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Here’s a 3D print design example of a nipple/detent feature that’s on both sides of the hood. Also there’s the holes for running wires…if desired

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I could do without the “Ratcheting” hood, but there it is…

I just felt like complaining.

Thank you for indulging me.

 

[asalaw]

I could do without the “Ratcheting” hood, but there it is…

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I just felt like complaining.

Thank you for indulging me.

That's Ratched, not ratchet!

 

[FANATICO]

I could do without the “Ratcheting” hood, but there it is…

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I just felt like complaining.

Thank you for indulging me.

You mean like this?…..

 

[edge10]

Or, you could just RTFM... just a thought...

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Not everyone is as OCD as you are.

 

[asalaw]

Not everyone is as OCD as you are.

Not OCD... just jonesing...

 

[Captain Dunsel]

You mean like this?…..

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Yep—“Ratcheting” is what TNG Tricorders do.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Or, you could just RTFM... just a thought...

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I hate that moire illumination. It's particularly jarring to the eye, demanding attention, even two hot spots in photos, and takes me out of the prop experience. We never saw such a thing. First thing I will turn that off forever.

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I hate that moire illumination. It's particularly jarring to the eye, demanding attention, even two hot spots in photos, and takes me out of the prop experience. We never saw such a thing. First thing I will turn that off forever.

And yet for those who want it illuminated, there is that option. Looks like they really did think of everything didn’t they?

 

[CessnaDriver]

And yet for those who want it illuminated, there is that option. Looks like they really did think of everything didn’t they?

I am forever grateful I would have been cutting wires otherwise! LOL It was the very first thing I noticed to gripe about. LOL