Mike Harrison wrote:
> At this sort of auction you are unlikely to get any mega-bargains on
> stuff like test gear - if you're lucky you can get stuff for a little
> below used equipment dealer prices (that's where they get it from
> before they add their margin...)
Really? I went to the "John's Radio" liquidation auction last year - it was
run by www.tech-asset.co.uk IIRC. Some idiot put a #300 each bid in on an
entire batch of frequency generators. Just put his hand up, said "Three
hundred quid each for the lot" and that was it. Did the same thing to all
the frequency generators in the auction. Grr... Nothing worse than a rich
git.

> but remember there's no warranty
> etc. At company liquidations like this, little details like
> calibration sticker dates can tell you a lot.
Indeed they can - my 466 had an "MSL Calibration Laboratory, Hitchin,
Herts" cal label dated 2nd January 1996, with a "Next Recalibration
Due" date of 2nd January 1997. $DEITY knows what happened to MSL, but
they did a bang-up job of calibrating the scope!
Got a service manual thrown in with it, too. Cost me #35 ex VAT for
the whole lot - service manual, scope, spare implosion guard, light
guard (little plastic thing that clips over the front bezel). No
probes though... Anyone got some Tek probe spares or a Tek 100MHz or
faster (P6062B, P6106, etc) probe they want rid of? The parts I currently
need are:
Tek P/N      Descr.
196-3120-01  6 in. Clip-on Ground Lead (2x needed)
196-3121-01  12 in. Clip-on Ground Lead (2x needed)
015-0201-07  IC Test Ground Cover, Gray (100 Mil Spacing)
206-0364-01  SMG-50 SMT clip

> I suspect the drills are in sufficiently large lots that the dealers
> will be interested & drive up prices, but you never know.... now that
> many of these auctions are online as well as live, it can only drive
> prices up.
:-(

Later.
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