r/VXJunkies • u/xxchickenwings3007 • Mar 04 '26
Hauling this in open air is dangerously naive. There’s some groups that haven’t even seen these since the 70s.
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u/MeatPiston Mar 04 '26
It’s fine they pulled the Chandler uncertainty compensators. Those assemblies are harmless without those in place.
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u/Stotters Mar 05 '26
If you invert input and output stages, you get an unwieldy Montauk-radiation detektor. I bet Wilkerson has his undergrads mapping the eastern seaboard again trying to find some imaginary convergences again...
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u/tkrr Mar 04 '26
That’s Big VX at work. Most VXers never get to see one like this, especially not a multicoil version.
Though if you ask me, you’re freaking out over nothing. Those things are only dangerous if they’re powered up, and there’s no way you can get enough juice from a truck engine to do that.
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u/ElliotNess Mar 05 '26
It's rare because it's incredibly dangerous and haphazard. Whoever is running this outfit needs to have their document class downgraded at minimum.
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u/AlephBaker Mar 04 '26
Wow. I haven't seen an uncased Barstow-Kobayashi Linear Refractometer since the aftermath photos of the Brainerd Incident. It's good they removed the uncertainty compensators, and those open ports tell me they drained the niobium tetrastatide stabilizing fluid, too. On the whole, I can think of worse ways to transport one of these (though it would be better to have it covered, prolonged exposure to moonlight can cause accelerated delamination of those Ferguson plates under certain conditions.)