Shrapnel bombs and homemade blasting caps but no ammo that I saw ...
oh ... and some grenade molds ... 
;-)
Posted on 12/09/2010 7:31:29 AM PST by ken21
Don’t you get an odd slow motion trainwreck feeling about this? Remember the MOVE fiasco in Philly?
Ammo and hats too. Gotta wonder if the pic was staged.
Remember the MOVE fiasco in Philly?
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Yes, most definitely the ‘poster child’ for Urban Renewal.
Luckily Rizzo had just left office, but then again the residents probably would have finished the job if Rizzo had still been in charge.
Shrapnel bombs and homemade blasting caps but no ammo that I saw ...
oh ... and some grenade molds ...
;-)
A letter from previous owners in the NC Times:
‘Bomb factory’ house was once family home
It’s surreal to hear that my childhood home is now referred to as the “bomb factory” house. In 1977, my parents were the first owners of 1954 Via Scott, and it was their address for the next 28 years. That home was host to lively family gatherings with Scottish relatives who have since passed on.
My brother, sister and I grew up within those walls and met our future spouses when this was our address. We watched our own children play on the backyard lawn, listening to the ever-increasing drone of Interstate 15 on the back side of the property. My father built the porch, shed and patio covers that have identified the house on the evening news. My mother painstakingly selected the wood flooring, kitchen tiles and cabinet doors in what would be their last renovation before selling the property several years ago.
And now it’s a potentially devastating hazard and must be burned to the ground. When you see the smoke, don’t cheer. The tenancy of George Jakubec and his cache of explosives will permanently deprive any other family of the legacy of memories that this wonderful home granted to ours.
Karen Lindsay
Escondido
Oops! So those aren’t yellow phone books in the first pic? I do see the silver boxes on the right ... sorry to trouble you. ;-)
In the pic with the scopes. Remington and Winchester box stacks.
Mmmm. Marshmallows and ciggies too! Nobody tell Moochelle.
I’m not sure, since I don’t live in Cali. This is the first I’ve heard of this.
Woah... that’s gotta be surreal for that family.
live video at nct.com
thanks.
we’re watching it burn on ch 6.
thanks.
Hmm, I don’t use a soldering station since I use a high watt iron since what I work is mostly point to point wires to say a tube socket. I’ve got a low wattage grounded iron for circuit boards and regular work. I’ve never had a complaint about a Weller station when I used one at work many years ago, I’ve never even heard of a Pace soldering station; from their website, it looks like a quality piece of equipment.
The scope has to be a 7000 series, it looks exactly like the 7904a I have. I’ve also got a 576 curve tracer and it’s screen is gray as well. The 577 is newer but it doesn’t look like what is in the picture and I believe, it’s a little narrower as well. The blue screen is what is throwing me off. It could be the result of the flash when they took the picture. It could be a storage scope but I’ve got one as well and on the top right side are all the buttons for the storage part.
Yeah, everyone was covering it until it was fully engulfed...Then all the local broadcast started pulling off the story...Other than the typical pops and cans of beans exploding not a single significant explosion was seen or heard...
For a "bomb factory" this was a total dud....
I do some guitar amp repair on the side and use my pace for point to point wire and for tube sockets, etc... It works really well, you just have to have the right tip. If I had to buy one I probably wouldn’t own one (too pricey), but the ones I got were resurrected from the ash heap at work. Since all the replacement/consumable parts are expensive, I look for someone retiring a system like I have and cob all of their consumables since the new systems use different ones. I’m lucky to be able to do that because I’d still be using my old solder station, which was still certainly a step up from a weller (it was similar to a Hakko, but some other brand that Pace swallowed up). That did the job quite well also, but I did not have a heated solder extractor prior to my acquisition of the Pace MBT systems I have now. The Metcal systems and the OKI systems (OKI makes Metcal) don’t stand up to the rigors of the rework I do daily as compared to the Pace MBT systems - the new digital systems are really nice!
It’s odd that Tek used the 7000 series names back then and still use them today with the DPO/DSO scopes and such. That just confuses me all the more. I have a 576 with a green screen myself. If you look around for images Tek released several different versions of the same scope/curve trace model with different CRTs (some gray, some green, some blue). I have a 370A curve tracer at work and I absolutely enjoy using it. I just wish Tek didn’t discontinue the curve tracer line a few years back!
The beautiful part of Tektronix and you probably already know this since you have their equipment but the employees of Tektronix are true believers and when I needed parts, I contacted a number I found and the person I contacted was willing to sell me all the parts I needed to get my 576 running as long as it was for personal use. Too cool. She also hooked me up with the manuals for all the Tektronix stuff I had including all of the plug in modules I have. They were all in such good shape I wonder if they're all NOS.
She got all the parts because they were stripping old equipment and scrapping it so she and others took it all home. I love Tektronix, I wish I could afford the new stuff but I don't really need it.
What I would kill for is the incredibly rare Tektronix tube curve tracer, 570.
I was bidding on one on Ebay a couple of years ago and I got beat at the last minute. It went for only $1,500 dollars! It sure would be a great way to match tubes in an amp.
Their reps are really great people. They’ll come out and spend a few hours with you and take you to lunch for the pleasure of it all. That 570 is pretty awesome! I’m trying to remember which one it is that I have - I don’t have it here with me though, or else I’d look at it to tell you. Another old workhorse that got retired from the company and nobody wanted it. I’ll go dig around the Tek website to see if I can find it. I’ll get back to you on that...
I just noticed your tagline, that episode just about made me hurl laughing when Cartman licked Scott’s tears!
I believe what I have is a 576 (1500V max range). I work on HV/HC stuff - although not quite as high voltage/current as some people around here. I tend to stay in the 2KV and 100A range of things working on implant grade defibrillators and heart failure devices; component level troubleshooting on MCM devices. That’s my mainstay, guitar amps are on the side and for fun when I have time to deal with them. I had to tear apart an old 577 that was getting trashed because our cal department was handling them roughly (we lost 7 of them in one year), what a shame.
The 576 has the LED displays on the right of the scope. It also goes to 1,500 volts as well.
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