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I have quite a lot of vintage test and radio equipment. It’s cheap, completely dangerous and unreliable and fun to fix. I couldn’t be happier playing with it.
by uncledave 6y ago
I have quite a lot of vintage test and radio equipment. It’s cheap, completely dangerous and unreliable and fun to fix. I couldn’t be happier playing with it.
- the_only_law 6y agoI have a lot of retro telecom equipment (mostly WAN line analyzers tbf) and I guess you could call a lot of it cheap, but a lot of it is curiously expensive too.
- uncledave 6y agoVery cool. There’s some of that curiously expensive stuff in here too. My oscilloscope and plug-ins cost about $70k new. I paid $200 for it :). It’s amazing that stuff I couldn’t afford I can now
- WalterBright 6y agoI found my analog oscilloscope at a pawn shop for $40.
- mhh__ 6y agoI'm always jealous of Americans, you just don't get scopes in the skip here (UK).
- uncledave 6y agoUK here. Mostly cancelled this year but best place to get scopes are radio rallies https://rsgb.org/main/news/rallies/ https://rsgb.org/main/news/rallies/
- pm215 6y agoI think that's about what I paid for my analogue storage scope (it works by long-persistence phosphor on the tube, it's very neat though obviously not very practical these days; has a handful of valves in it as well as the CRT proper).
- 52-6F-62 6y agoI had the pleasure of using a 35-50 year old high-pot tester when I worked for a rental company in the film industry. It was horribly dangerous but still nobody seemed to get hurt. Enough current to explode one’s innards in two wands you just go and touch ground pathways to make sure they don’t leak on high voltage/high current portable distribution terminals and lamps. That job was a really fun experience.