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mikoto · 01-06-2004, 01:11 PM

I have a line on some old equip. Caps and such. This stuff comes from a tenant who can't pay rent and is willing to trade to defer some cost. I don't know how to tell if it is gonna be any good but I can pick and choose what I want from a fairly large selection. Probably 2k+ misc components total. Hope he has what I need. Some of the stuff is obviously pretty old and has just been sitting, warehoused, for quite a while. He builds outdoor speaker systems for churches. He has some pretty heavy duty things but plenty of finer equipment as well. Hopefully I can get more specifics as I select what I want. Would make the whole project cheaper.

In addition, this same guy has an old-school o-scope. I mean really old. Looks to be at least 20-25 years old, maybe older. What the hell do I know? Anyway, it is all analogue. Just dials and switches and stuff. No digital lcd displays or any of that cool stuff like I have seen on the new ones. Just a plain old o-scope. He is willing to part with it "cheap", or so he says. We haven't talked price yet. Any pointers on how to tell if it is worth anything? Or what would be a fair price? (assume it works) Perhaps I don't want an old one?

Kind of bogging down on a couple of points. Step-down transformers are so expensive as to make this whole project silly. Variacs are worse :P

Since87, pm about the variac?

thanks for all the info guys.

01-06-2004, 01:11 PM	#30
mikoto Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: smog Posts: 47	I have a line on some old equip. Caps and such. This stuff comes from a tenant who can't pay rent and is willing to trade to defer some cost. I don't know how to tell if it is gonna be any good but I can pick and choose what I want from a fairly large selection. Probably 2k+ misc components total. Hope he has what I need. Some of the stuff is obviously pretty old and has just been sitting, warehoused, for quite a while. He builds outdoor speaker systems for churches. He has some pretty heavy duty things but plenty of finer equipment as well. Hopefully I can get more specifics as I select what I want. Would make the whole project cheaper. In addition, this same guy has an old-school o-scope. I mean really old. Looks to be at least 20-25 years old, maybe older. What the hell do I know? Anyway, it is all analogue. Just dials and switches and stuff. No digital lcd displays or any of that cool stuff like I have seen on the new ones. Just a plain old o-scope. He is willing to part with it "cheap", or so he says. We haven't talked price yet. Any pointers on how to tell if it is worth anything? Or what would be a fair price? (assume it works) Perhaps I don't want an old one? Kind of bogging down on a couple of points. Step-down transformers are so expensive as to make this whole project silly. Variacs are worse :P Since87, pm about the variac? thanks for all the info guys.