BAC8 - MISCELLANEOUS

Broome Aircraft Wrecks

1. Radio capacitor - large, brown, rectangular capacitor. Two triangular ends jut out on either end of the base, with a large screw in each. Removable base with four empty screw holes and evidence of stamping (indecipherable). On top of capacitor sit the positive and negative connections, one of which has the remnants of a connection still attached. Top of the capacitor has a number of raised stamps reading ‘CORNELL-DUBILIER’, ‘CAPACITOR TYPE 197-6’, ‘AMPS 6’, ‘KC 1000’, ‘MFD 003’, and ‘3000 VOLTS’.
2. Metal casing - cylindrical metal casing with a rounded top. Completely hollow, large amounts of erosion.
3. Coil coupling- hexagonal screw top visible, remainder of screw encased in thick, coiled wires. Heavily eroded.
4. Radio component - Large metal box which is shaped like a rectangle, except halfway along the shape shifts down a few cm so it looks like two halves of a rectangle that didn’t meet exactly in the centre. Inside the box sit two cylinders held by rectangular frames at each end. The frames have a number of holes designed to hold wooden dowel pieces and square metal rods. The pieces are in varying states of remaining in the holes or fallen to the base of the box. The cylinders themselves are covered in continuous circular grooves.