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Car boot sale bargain finds
krv3000:
hi well bin shoping and got this lot of one seller for £10 a mitutoyo d.t.i a starrett level a file two sets of stud extractors from kennedy and a jam jar with sum dies and a die handel most of the dies turnd out to be BA and the die handel is x army dated 1940 as per the d.t.i got a scrub up right pics
S. Heslop:
Glad I got out of bed this morning. I've been hoping to find a scope some day for about 2 years.
It's a bit rough looking though. Not sure if it actually works yet but I want to wait a bit before I try plugging it in. Looks like it was stuck in an attic for a while since it's got a few cobwebs with bits of tinsel trapped in them, and the crud on the screen appears to be bird poo. It's clean inside though.
I think i'll have to get off my ass and finally build those desk shelves i've been planning to for yonks, so I have somewhere to put this.
DMIOM:
Good catch with that scope - its a storage mainframe so (if you can trigger it!) you can catch single-shot events. If I remember right its genuinely a dual-beam tube, and I think those are delayed / hold-off plugins.
Only thing with kit of that vintage is that electrolytic capacitors may have deteriorated & may need changing. :zap:
Dave
hermetic:
I always wanted a scope, not that I had any use for one, or really the in depth electronic knowledge required to use one, but we had some in the physics lab when I was at school several centuries ago, and we also used them in the electrical engineering lad at college, where we used to record the number of HFT events on the mains supply in 24 hours (except when the cleaners used to ignore the "LEAVE ON" notice and turn it off) and I found them fascinating. That looks like a really nice bit of kit, have fun with it! What do you intend to do use it for?
Phil.
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: DMIOM on September 21, 2014, 05:50:52 AM ---Good catch with that scope - its a storage mainframe so (if you can trigger it!) you can catch single-shot events. If I remember right its genuinely a dual-beam tube, and I think those are delayed / hold-off plugins.
Only thing with kit of that vintage is that electrolytic capacitors may have deteriorated & may need changing. :zap:
Dave
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Yeah the guy said it was one of the early storage ones. I think i've got to do some reading up on how to actually use the things, and buy/make some probes before I can really check if its working. From a quick look visually the capacitors look okay, haven't leaked, so hopefully they're still in order.
--- Quote from: hermetic on September 21, 2014, 07:37:17 AM ---I always wanted a scope, not that I had any use for one, or really the in depth electronic knowledge required to use one, but we had some in the physics lab when I was at school several centuries ago, and we also used them in the electrical engineering lad at college, where we used to record the number of HFT events on the mains supply in 24 hours (except when the cleaners used to ignore the "LEAVE ON" notice and turn it off) and I found them fascinating. That looks like a really nice bit of kit, have fun with it! What do you intend to do use it for?
Phil.
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I've got no real in depth knowledge on electronics either. I've found it difficult to find good information; most textbooks are theory heavy and barely talk about applying the stuff, and there's alot of nonsense in general on the internet about electronics engineering.
I'm hoping to use it to build a synthesizer some day (when i'm not as busy!) to learn electronics and they seem fairly essential for that, but from watching videos of various repair work work they also look fairly handy for chasing down faults and other general stuff.
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