Star Trek TOS, Dr. McCoys MoPop-Museum-Copy, Medical Scanner BUILT. This reproduction is expertly machined out of aluminum. The body is hard anodized black aluminum and in exactly the size and details of the MoPop Museum Displayed Prop. Scanner with sounds and spin (view video clip). Battery Cap Removal Tool in Acrylic Rod. Two spare batteries (one set). THIS IS A COMPLETE BUILT ITEM : The prop is hand Crafted of; black anodized machined aluminum, acrylic tube and cap, 1 hologram stickers, pin-stripes, the spinner motor, with LR44 battery holder, the worble-worble soundboard and the batteries are installed too! INCLUDED IN THIS SALE. Built Scanner with worble-worble sounds and spinning doodad. This is built on the R2 engineered version and features; louder sound and much easier battery changes as a result of a best-cap-fit that is much more easily removed. See sale photos to see how this was constructed. Included is an Acrylic Rod Top-Cap removal tool for battery changes. Two spare battery cells are provided. Two more are installed in the Scanner. In the battery holder to get a little more sound volume and slightly faster spin, however, using three batteries may cause the speaker to “skip” once in a while. If a skip occurs, release the button and resume use. Once the batteries run-down a bit the skip stops. The worble-worble sound on the TV show was dubbed-in. The prop makes that sound, however, adjust your expectations and realize the prop won’t fill the room with sound like the TV show did. The Body Cap; machined aluminum with 3/8 motor hole and O-Ring and O-ring groove for securing and removing the top to change batteries. Bottom Plate; CNC machine engraved, red & green dots, white-triangle indicators, white bars scales. Custom Machined aluminum 3/4 inch inner-spinner-top-cap with motor boss and set screw. The Round 1 hologram stickers. Custom Gold top push button momentary switch. Includes the 2-batteries in the LR44 Battery Holder and spare set. Some Star Trek Prop History For Inquiring Minds. Most of these Prop Makers and Technicians have passed-on. Below are old-timer accounts of convention conversations before conventions were really a fad. (all 2nd hand stories). The persons quoted worked for; Desilu, NBC, Paramount & Gene. Bob Stone was Star Trek’s machinist and made all the metal prop parts for all three seasons of the show. Parts were made to order for each episode as in those times (the 1960’s) as machining was done by hand and there was no advantage to making short runs (and no studio funding either). Each episode had a specific budget. According to Bob there was no magic drum of Phaser Nozzles and every job was a mad-dash to meet the filming deadlines. Because parts were made only to order, parts varied quite a bit. These variations can be seen in all the surviving examples of TOS hand props from Phaser to Communicators and Tricorders. Sometimes it was not that a new design was needed but rather that when one Wings it from a sketch, in a hurry using what is on-hand, you get an unintended-new-version of something (in the 1960’s the TV audience never could see that). Robert Archer and Bob Stone worked closely together so when the show was cancelled suddenly in season three, Robert Archer ended up with a nice collection of hand props. Richard Heimer made the molds for hand props. He also did all the casting and forming. This included; Vacuum form bucks, Fiberglass molds and, urethane molds. Again, according to him most work is done in the normal Hollywood maddening rush. He shared with his convention friends that there were many molds made from molds when the production schedule demanded this. He also shared that when the show ended he rescued the molds from being discarded by putting them in his garage. 1919 was the director of special effects for the show. He handled and repaired many of the props on-set. When the show was cancelled in season three he rescued many hand props and even some models from the scrap heap. Dick Ruben, Prop & Art Assistant on the show, got his Set-Used Klingon disruptor from James. Ruggs held on to his rather large Star Trek collection for many years. It is widely known that Greg Jein got his Holy-Grail Hero Phaser from James. In closing a nod to Mr. Ruck, a prop technician, who reported that he repaired some hand props hundreds of times as they were often damaged during filming. He had also shared that the fiberglass Mid-Grade’s, and some other props often used basswood strips between the seams to establish uniform dimensions. Watch some YouTube Star Trek TOS bloopers to see what he was talking when it comes to repairs and hand props flying apart. Jonpaultrek2012 And related marks and logos are trademarks of Jonpaultrek2012 LLC. All Rights are hereby explicitly Reserved. 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