Pic of medical tricorder, communicator, and comm ear piece...

[M'Sharak]

McCoy's scanner appears to have writing stamped into the bottom black cap, but nobody over at the RPF can make it out. I cropped and tried to clan up the largest image I could find:

Any guesses? I'd love to ID all the parts for this so I can have one on opening day.

Looks almost too regular and uniform to be writing. Kind of makes me think of a diffraction grating, or some sort of filter/aperture device.

 

[Gepard]

Not in the middle, running in an arc around the grating in the center. There's a long string of it on the right, and a shorter string on the left.

 

[M'Sharak]

Not in the middle, running in an arc around the grating in the center. There's a long string of it on the right, and a shorter string on the left.

Bit on the right could say 'McCoy' at the end, but I can't tweak it enough to clear it up much more than you already have. We need the magic CSI machine.

 

[Gepard]

Bit on the right could say 'McCoy' at the end,

That would be kind of funny. I'm 90% sure there isn't a custom part on this thing, though, so...

but I can't tweak it enough to clear it up much more than you already have. We need the magic CSI machine.

You mods have one of those in the BR, right?

 

[Kryton]

It clearly says "You're a FUCKING GEEK. Move out of your mom's basement and KISS A GIRL!"

 

[Samurai8472]

Taking a cue from Samuel L Jackson, maybe McCoy's pepper tricoder has B.A.M.F. written on it

 

[Gepard]

It clearly says "You're a FUCKING GEEK.

Quiet, you.

Move out of your mom's basement

Done.

and KISS A GIRL!"

Crap!

 

[Kryton]

 

[Gepard]

The truth hurts.

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I just posted this on another board. I'm getting a bee in my bonnet to figure this out:

Looking at it more closely, the black-capped part with the mysterious writing seems to have a threaded metal bit inside the tube with two black wires soldered to it. Also, the end cap with the hashing and writing seems to be a different piece from the rest of the cap--a big push button, maybe?

And that metal loop and metal plate on the other end look like some kind of syringe plunger, either of the medical or cake icing variety, but an hour or more on Google has turned up nothing that matched exactly.

 

[M'Sharak]

Bit on the right could say 'McCoy' at the end,

That would be kind of funny. I'm 90% sure there isn't a custom part on this thing, though, so...

Looking around, I notice a number of pictures of sporty pepper mill models which show an inset of the bottom (business end) as well as the item standing upright. Couldn't find a comparable one for a model like this one, though, but you're right -- it could be no more than the original manufacturer's marking.

but I can't tweak it enough to clear it up much more than you already have. We need the magic CSI machine.

You mods have one of those in the BR, right?

Would sure simplify things now and then, wouldn't it?

 

[ancient]

The end of it looks like "wocn" or "wocly"

So this scanner must be the property of commander Wocly. As head of CSI, I'm going to write up a warrent for Wocly's arrest. It was almost the perfect crime.

 

[Jon1701]

http://www.vicfirthgourmet.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=STS1

 

[trekkerguy]

I think alot of people may be seeing the props as larger than they really are.

That's almost definitely the scanner wand for his medical tricorder.

And damnit I love the communicator. MUST HAVE!

 

[SalvorHardin]

You know, i find it useful but also very very funny that after the photos of the props appeared, suddenly there were dozens of people combing the internet for pictures of pepper and salt grinding equipment

Ah the joys of being a Trek fan

 

[Jon1701]

Actually, could this be a hypospray?

No-one seems to have mentioned that possibility yet.

 

[SalvorHardin]

Actually, could this be a hypospray?

No-one seems to have mentioned that possibility yet.

Noone has mentioned it because it was clearly labeled as Bones' Medical Tricorder on the display case.

 

[Jon1701]

I know that.

Doesn't mean it hasn't been mislabeled. Tricorder. Hypospray. Both made up words.

 

[SalvorHardin]

I know that.

Doesn't mean it hasn't been mislabeled.

Well, you can certainly assume that if you want I suppose.

Personally I find it unlikely.

 

[Jon1701]

I just think, McCoy never had a medical tricorder. It looks much more like the old hypospray he used.

Did he even use a regular one? I'm not so sure. I just find it odd to have a prop that looks nothing like we've had before when the other two are fairly similar.

I just have a hunch this will turn out to be a hypospray or some sort of scanner.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

I just think, McCoy never had a medical tricorder. It looks much more like the old hypospray he used.

Did he even use a regular one? I'm not so sure. I just find it odd to have a prop that looks nothing like we've had before when the other two are fairly similar.

I just have a hunch this will turn out to be a hypospray or some sort of scanner.

Well, I have a hard time imagining an injector having internal wiring and so forth (though I also have a hard time imagining the need for commerical bar-code scanners all over the bridge, or lamps shining in peoples' faces, or round corridors inside a ship, or... etc, etc, etc...

I also doubt, very much, that this is the "tricorder." Again, hard to be CERTAIN, but since I'm not seeing any input controls or outputs (display, etc) it seems unlikely. More likely, this is the remote scanner "wand" which is PART of the medical tricorder (and yes, McCoy carried a medical tricorder... a different prop than Spock's "science tricorder" though largely similar... throughout TOS).

FYI, my view on tricorders has always been that they're modular... different plug-in components inside of a basic frame with a computer/control "head." Some of the modules include various high-power scanners (with a round "scanner unprocessed data display" on top... the round moire-pattern bit which is present on both the tricorder and communicator), a "data library" set (used on Spock's, but not on every version, in his case using round holographic-storage disks). The lower compartment contains various add-in cards, or additional sensors, and can also hold a removable scanner (of several possible types, most likely) with a charging/docking "socket" (as McCoy's did). Oh, and it would be possible to have a "communicator/log" card slotted in as well (for yeomen, for instance).

Think of the tricorder frame as a "motherboard and CPU" and the rest of it is the various other components of your PC.