Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread SAIDJACK
Back in the days (around 1985 or so) Caltech in Pasadena used to have a surplus store on campus. I spent a good time in that store, and still have some of those treasures. Lot's of JPL stuff. Does anyone know if that still exists?? bye, Said In a message dated 3/31/2010 21:23:59 Pacific

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread jimlux
Rex wrote: jimlux wrote: Scott Burris wrote: C&H closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: http://www.candhsurplus.com/ At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they declined to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out to movie

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Don Latham
Well, there are more reasons for astounding prices. For example, Ebay was a good place to get stuff, until it changed from a marketplace to a virtual storefront. A bunch of buy it now's does not establish a marketplace where prices can be determined. So the BIN's have prices that seem outrageous. P

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread d . seiter
Wow, kind of a cross between the old Halted and Alan Steel in Redwood City. I know where to go if I need doorknobs! Dave - Original Message - From: "Burt I. Weiner" To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:24:47 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: [time-nu

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Rex
jimlux wrote: Scott Burris wrote: C&H closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: http://www.candhsurplus.com/ At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they declined to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out to movie studios. S

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread jimlux
Scott Burris wrote: C&H closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: http://www.candhsurplus.com/ At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they declined to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out to movie studios. Scott That is

[time-nuts] GPS SVN-49 and some GLONASS news

2010-03-31 Thread Magnus Danielson
Fellow time-nuts, The US Air Force is now more openly discussing the issues and means to mitigate them relating to SVN-49. It has provided an interesting exercise as not all the means available to mitigate that just reading ICD-GPS-200 may be applicable. They are discussing a number of differe

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Bill Hawkins
Or wireless computer and computerless wire (seen on a birthday card). Bill -Original Message- Don Latham Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:48 PM Goes to showya---word order can be important, core memory and memory core...hehe Don ___ time-nu

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
Wow!! Thanks, -John > C&H closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: > > http://www.candhsurplus.com/ > > At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they > declined > to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out > to movi

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Scott Burris
C&H closed briefly to move and is now open in Duarte: http://www.candhsurplus.com/ At Apex, a friend tried to purchase a nose cone from a rocket, but they declined to sell it to him because they were making too much money renting it out to movie studios. Scott On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:02 PM, J. F

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Don Latham
Goes to showya---word order can be important, core memory and memory core...hehe Don J. Forster > This I can't resist! > > In about 1963, I was at Eli Heffron's in Cambridge. The old man, Eli was > still alive. Anyway, they had won a big lot for many kilobucks from IBM > near NYC. I was there when

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
This I can't resist! In about 1963, I was at Eli Heffron's in Cambridge. The old man, Eli was still alive. Anyway, they had won a big lot for many kilobucks from IBM near NYC. I was there when they unloaded. They were all hot about the money they were going to make form all the "memory cores" the

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
Apex was in Sun Valley. They were there in 1979 and had lots of aerospace telemetry stuff there. I bought an Omega receiver and carried it to Boston as baggage. Those were the days. Sadly C&H is now gone. I don't know if Palley Supply is still in business. There was also Industrial Liquidators at

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Tom Holmes, N8ZM
Dayton Hamvention, May 14-16. Always lots of surplus equipment dealers in flea market. Good opportunity to haggle over price, see what you are buying in person, and see a lot of other junque as well. www.hamvention.org Regards, Tom Holmes, N8ZM Tipp City, OH EM79xx -Original Message- F

Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 68, Issue 177

2010-03-31 Thread Dave M
Message: 4 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:28:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Forster" Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places To: les...@veenstras.com, "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" Message-ID: <49609.12.6.201.2.1270049289.squir...@popaccts.quik.com> Content-Type: te

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread Brian Kirby
I uploaded the 10514 and 10534 mixer manuals to ko4bb site Bruce Griffiths wrote: Upload it to the manuals section of Didier's site: http://www.ko4bb.com/cgi-bin/manuals.pl Bruce ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go t

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread steve heidmann
Recently seen at Apex : NOS  Ampex Ferrotech Memory cores 45k in a vial , $2 .                                          Ask for Don.                                        Steve  --- On Wed, 3/31/10, Burt I. Weiner wrote: From: Burt I. Weiner Subject: [time-nuts] Surplus Places... To: t

Re: [time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread paul swed
I spotted this place a couple years ago. Noted it but have not been back to LA with time to get to the place. It indeed looks like a great place for the things I tend to be interested in. Though good to here the $ may be more reasonable. In Santa Clara some of the places want gold for true junk. O

[time-nuts] Surplus Places...

2010-03-31 Thread Burt I. Weiner
In the Southern, California - Los Angeles area, we have a place called Apex Electronics. Some of the prices in the past have been outrageous, but now seem to becoming more reasonable. Right now there seems to be a ton of NTSC TV stuffs coming in the doors. I think you could spend days foragi

Re: [time-nuts] HP 00105-6012 5 MHz Crystal Oven Assy.

2010-03-31 Thread paul swed
Ignacio I do not know. But those ovens actually started me in the world of frequency references. I found one at a computerfest many years ago 1992 for 50 cents. I discovered they were used in the HP5360 (I now have 4 of those working)and HP5248m as I recall. I think they were used in other equipmen

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Upload it to the manuals section of Didier's site: http://www.ko4bb.com/cgi-bin/manuals.pl Bruce Brian Kirby wrote: The manual is about a megabyte - the list will not accept it. ewkeh...@aol.com wrote: Is there a way you can post it on time-nuts? Thank you Bert Kehren In a message dated 3/3

[time-nuts] HP 00105-6012 5 MHz Crystal Oven Assy.

2010-03-31 Thread EB4APL
Hello, I have seen one of those oscillators on the usual site. I own one 00105-6013 and I know the range of frequency standards which used one. Externally both look identical but, anybody know the differences and the equipments that used them? Just a matter of curiosity. Regards, Ignacio, EB4AP

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread Lester Veenstra
And I had completely forgotten about Meshnas. Spent much more time there, and one company in the same area that morphed into electronic music instruments. Lester B Veenstra MØYCM K1YCM les...@veenstras.com m0...@veenstras.com k1...@veenstras.com   US Postal Address: PSC 45 Box 781 APO AE 0946

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
Brother Ben ran the surplus store Brother Jay ran Solid State Sales, the IC operation in the basement. -John > That's the placeUsed to buy "RTL" logic there > > > > Lester B Veenstra MØYCM K1YCM > les...@veenstras.com > m0...@veenstras.com > k1...@veenstras.com >   > > US

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread Lester Veenstra
That's the placeUsed to buy "RTL" logic there Lester B Veenstra MØYCM K1YCM les...@veenstras.com m0...@veenstras.com k1...@veenstras.com   US Postal Address: PSC 45 Box 781 APO AE 09468 USA UK Postal Address: Dawn Cottage Norwood, Harrogate HG3 1SD, UK Telephones: Office: +44-(0)1423

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread EWKehren
Would you mind sending it direct to me at _ewkeh...@aol.com_ (mailto:ewkeh...@aol.com) as an attachment? You know we are in the test phase of a Dual Mixer and we are also running tests with the 10514 A and B along with the SYPD-1. The next board will accept the footprint of the 10514 B. B

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread Joseph M Gwinn
There is also Young Engineering in Salem, Mass. < http://www.youngengsales.com/> They used to have more electronics stuff, but they seem to have become a used machine tool dealer. Well, the electronics stuff may be too numerous and cheap to be worth listing on the website. time-nuts-boun...@f

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
> Never heard of elis and I have been out here 12 years. > NH had some places and as mentioned a few exist. I used to visit some just > across the ma/nh boarder. But most of what I have seen has been the very > very bottom of the barrel. > Oh for the flea market days when trucks of test equipment s

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread J. Forster
They went into the DEC and PC business years ago and I've not been there in 30 years. I've heard the brothers, Ben and Jay are both long dead. Meshna is also long gone. BnF is still around but selling mostly PC related stuff. Peter Boniface comes to most of the MIT Fleas. There are a couple of

[time-nuts] For Brian Kirby

2010-03-31 Thread John Green
Going to Talladega? I am in Anniston, just a hop, skip away. If you get time, drop by. I am at 1750 Coleman Rd. We don't have a Time Nuts quality lab here but do have some interesting stuff. John Green ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To u

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread Brian Kirby
The manual is about a megabyte - the list will not accept it. ewkeh...@aol.com wrote: Is there a way you can post it on time-nuts? Thank you Bert Kehren In a message dated 3/30/2010 9:10:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kilodelta4foxm...@gmail.com writes: We'll the "A"s are the package w

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread Stanley Reynolds
I'm in Birmingham and even the thrift stores here list their stuff on ebay, could give you a list of closed places, was one in Decatur ... You can find places using ebay and see if they will let you come by for a look, no joy for time-nuts stuff but for other stuff this has worked for me. UAB

[time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread Arthur Dent
Lester Veenstra-"I guess this means Eli's is gone !" I used to go to Eli Heffron & Sons when Eli ran it and also after the two sons took over the business. There was always something of interest to be found. I never knew I 'needed' an item until I saw it at the bottom of a pile of other treasur

Re: [time-nuts] OT Question - Surplus Places

2010-03-31 Thread paul swed
Never heard of elis and I have been out here 12 years. NH had some places and as mentioned a few exist. I used to visit some just across the ma/nh boarder. But most of what I have seen has been the very very bottom of the barrel. Oh for the flea market days when trucks of test equipment showed up a

[time-nuts] GPS Display clock

2010-03-31 Thread G0MIC
Dave If you don't mind building it yourself and customising some PIC code try this _http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP_ (http://www.g4jnt.com/GPLOCDIS.ZIP) I used a different GPS unit and found a minor bug in the code because of that but if you go down this route I can let you have the up

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Display clock

2010-03-31 Thread Bruce Griffiths
b...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Zealand is an island between Denmark and Sweden. Was not aware of that. Lat/Lon? Zeeland is a province of the Netherlands Been there... Bruce -- Björn The name New Zealand originates from the latter via Dutch Cartographers.

Re: [time-nuts] HP10514B Mixers

2010-03-31 Thread EWKehren
Is there a way you can post it on time-nuts? Thank you Bert Kehren In a message dated 3/30/2010 9:10:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kilodelta4foxm...@gmail.com writes: We'll the "A"s are the package with the BNC connector. The "B"s are for OEM equipment, they had 6 pins and a smaller pla

Re: [time-nuts] GPS Display clock

2010-03-31 Thread Magnus Danielson
b...@lysator.liu.se wrote: Hi Sanjeev, On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 13:51, wrote: Zealand is an island between Denmark and Sweden. Was not aware of that. Lat/Lon? 55.5N 11.75E Ahaa... Zealand is the English name for Sjaelland. Well, Sjaelland _is_ Denmark. Try te

[time-nuts] GPS Display clock (Dave Lance)

2010-03-31 Thread mc0fred
G'Day Dave, Would one of these do the job? http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_111363/article.html http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_111709/article.html ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-