unidentified Jobo thingy

[AgX]

That tank is stated to be model 16/160 D.

What is that thingy for that looks like being from pressed metal sheet/foil?

By the way, is there a site with information on early Jobo tanks (before model 1000)?

 

[Photo Engineer]

I doubt anyone can tell. It is too small.

PE

 

[Doc W]

PE, you are not trying hard enough. (Squints and looks very closely). It is clearly a .... thingie.

 

[AgX]

Sorry, but I could not access a larger image. Who knows that thingy will recognize it anyway.
The right end is flat and the left end seems spherical as in large spoon, but with a cut-out.

 

[Doc W]

Omer at CatLabs might know.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Sorry, but I could not access a larger image. Who knows that thingy will recognize it anyway.
The right end is flat and the left end seems spherical as in large spoon, but with a cut-out.

I know some people shaped like that but they have nothing to do with a Jobo. Sorry.

PE

 

[Sirius Glass]

It is not a thingy, but a whatyoumaycallit.

 

[AgX]

About my second question: isn't it strange that there is no compilation of information about the early Jobo tanks?

 

[Photo Engineer]

Jobo published a very nice set of catalogs back in the '80s and perhaps earlier. I have several sets.

PE

 

[mshchem]

Here's a wild guess. Any chance it is intended to hold a sheet of film/paper against the inside wall of the tank with 5he center column in place.?
Mike

 

[MattKing]

Google's best guess? An auto part!

 

[StoneNYC]

I suspect the metal piece is to keep the film from unrolling off the reels or something similar. It would bend at both ends to go around the top and bottom core ends, and the middle section would lay along the side of the reels?

It's not a surprise there's not early JOBO info, there weren't a lot made and it was almost a half century ago before the internet.

 

[AgX]

Here's a wild guess. Any chance it is intended to hold a sheet of film/paper against the inside wall of the tank with the center column in place.?
Mike

The spoon part indeed seems to go over the collumn. But if that thingy was a clamp to hold film, the film would be pressed at boths sides.
Even the very old Jobo tanks were designed to place the film with even both sides open.

 

[MartinP]

A device for lowering the reels+core in to the tank when it is full, for a speedy and even start to processing? But that would mean that it is bendable rather than rigid, and it would have to stay in the tank during processing.

 

[AgX]

As said, I got the impression that thingy is likely from foil and thus bendable.

The tank seems to be non-inversive and reels to be agitated by twisting a knob at the cap.

 

[wiltw]

Coke spoon for the Jolly Green Giant. Not a Jobo product at all.

 

[AgX]

Poor old giant... he must be on diet seen the hole in the spoon.