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To: battlecry
I've got the one at right. It looks like a Tektronix 7904a except the screen is blue and the other looks like a spectrum analyzer. That thing at the bottom of the picture with the meter is from HP and he has a nice soldering station. This guy has some expensive equipment, why?

I fix old equipment so I use old tools although this stuff was cutting edge when I was in school which I would have killed for back then and it still cost a lot 25 years later. Why does this guy have all this stuff? I thought they made bombs in caves so why the 70's high tech stuff? Give me a respirator so I can go in and save all this great old equipment which is going to be destroyed; it's a shame...


14 posted on 12/09/2010 8:19:15 AM PST by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Lx

That solder station is frankly a POS (my opinion - all wellers are junk). Give me a pace any day! Weller station PCBs are basically bare copper on a mica substrate - better be really careful with them because they break easily (cough too hard when soldering and you may be in the market for a new solder station)!

Beyond that, the item with the blue screen on the right looks to me like a curve tracer - possibly a 577 or something else in the 570 series (the screen is in about the right position for that as are the knobs). I see some intage scope photos that look similar (again 500 series scopes), but nothing looks too similar. I see a number of odd power supplies similar to those I have - old and ratty, but still somewhat useful.

Of anything there, I’d be happy to take the ammo off their hands :)


18 posted on 12/09/2010 8:57:51 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The gropings will continue until morale improves, or "don't TSA me bro")
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To: Lx

Ammo and hats too. Gotta wonder if the pic was staged.


22 posted on 12/09/2010 9:29:47 AM PST by battlecry
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