BMI California made Densitometer, anyone have any information or a manual for one.

I have just won an ebay auction for a BMI Densitometer, apparently all the seller knows is that it was made by BMI and they were in California. I thought I would have a little punt at it to see what it's like as it looks like it could be useful.

ebay Item number: 271213648188 I won it for circa $50 including the shipping so no big loss if it's no good.

Hoping someone here can help.

It's a Brumac. Google it and you'll see some useful info. I had one in the 90's. They were already out of business by then. I bought it cheap because that was still the era when there was a market for densitometers and all the other brands were still $1000. it worked OK. As I remember it needed some time to warm up. Hope yours works because it will be tough finding anyone who could fix it. I used to have the manuals for it but those were gone many years ago.

John

Many thanks John, it has given me somewhere to start.

Well, it arrived this morning and what a beast, is about twice the size and almost twice the weight of my X-Rite 811, came with two new spare lamps and a set of discs with 1mm, 2mm and 3mm holes. I let it warm up for a while and put the X-Rite standard in and my Stouffer Step Wedges and the readings all look to be pretty much as would be expected, it is a big old thing though with a separate transformer which is also a big heavy lump.