Steve -
Sounds like my garage/shop! Lots of old Heath/Eico stuff. I even have an original Simpson 260 (with the flat silkscreened panel - I've been told it's the series 0), vintage ~1939, inherited from my dad. Growing up just post depression & through WWII, I have problems throwing ANYTHING away! And sometimes even wind up using it.
Norm w6nim
just up the road from you, in Concrete, on the Skagit River.
On 10/14/2018 10:52 AM, Steven AE7HD via Groups.Io wrote:
I've ended up with a lot of older test equipment, and in cleaning up my lab and such, I've realized I have
WAY more than I thought I had.
I can't bring myself to toss it. It all either works, or would be easily repairable. But do I really need a Heathkit RLC bridge? An old tube signal tracer? A JFET analog multimeter? Two Heathkit capacitor testers?
I even have what was once a very expensive device meant for testing of digital circuits. You can compare two devices, known good against unknown, or make an EPROM that stores the proper answers. Very handy equipment, very expensive in 1982. Way more capable circuits available now for under $100.
I'm on an antique test equipment Facebook page. They are very vociferous about saving old gear, and get very angry when someone Steampunks an old 'scope. Yet they aren't interested in buying any of this unless I sell it essentially for the cost of shipping.
I'm inclined to just gut them and use the cases to build newer, better test equipment. Or Steampunk some of the really old stuff. Some of these things have the "magic eye" tubes in them.
What do you think? Anyone else in the same boat?
Steve Greenfield AE7HD http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenjgreenfield
-- Sent from my antique Win7 desktop
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