Whatintheworldisa Wobbulator???!!!

[Arkay]

I thought a Wobbulator was something Charlie used in the Chocolate Factory... or was it one of those pieces of gear behind the Wizard of Oz's curtain?

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Warren, Ohio, was also the original home of Packard, one of the finest motorcars that was ever made...

OOOooooh, yes, truly outstanding automobiles. My "dream car" is a long-wheel base Packard V12, circa 1937. Supremely elegant design, very luxurious, whisper quiet, and able to handily overtake freeway traffic all day long with a monstrously powerful engine (if you dare to push any car that old, that hard). Enough weight/mass to crush the daylights out of almost anything else in a collision, too... although the thought of crashing one of those beauties makes me cringe!

Originally Posted by merrylander

Ask the man who owns one.

I wish... one day!

Originally Posted by mhardy6647

next someone'll be asking about snivets...

Cowardly wild cats, right? [A contraction of "snivelling civets", of course.]
Or are they snipped-off rivets?

[Phil Nelson]

I have an unrestored Triumph Oscillograph-Wobbulator, built for the Navy under a wartime contract.

http://www.antiqueradio.org/trium01.htm

Cute little bugger. I've had it more than 10 years -- guess I should either restore it or send it packing. Somewhere in my paper piles is the service manual.

Phil Nelson

[Whirled One]

Weeblators wobbulators but they don't fall down.

[7"estatdef]

The first time I ran into the term was in a 1939 GE H-87 radio manual. It was used to adjust the IF stages to give a even/broad curve for hifi responce. Akin to a sweep generator.
Terry

[zenith2134]

News to me! Cool...

[cbenham]

[QUOTE=7"estatdef;2837099]The first time I ran into the term was in a 1939 GE H-87 radio manual.

In the 1950s one TV manufacturer included a 'wobbulator' circuit in a few sets to make the scanning lines disappear. It was a ~14 megacycle power oscillator driving a third yoke coil that moved the beam vertically by a very small amount, but just enough that it covered the blank areas between the lines on the screen without making the picture look out of focus.
I don't remember which company did this but maybe someone reading this does???
Cliff