All good comments. Totally agree it depends on your interests on what will get used the most. I have a very wide range of gear that I have picked up since becoming a test equipment junky. Though the gear I have is not really junk, pretty far from it. Multiple spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, generators and scopes, on an on. One good thing is that often the gear just needs some tlc to get back into to shape. It also helps to simply clean the stuff. A bit of soap and water and scrubbing gets years of grunge off. I have learned so much from repairing this equipment for my hobby. Each piece is a lesson on how to do things right. If it an HP, Tektronix, or Rhodes and Shwartz. Fluke has really gone down hill for my 2 cents. Pretty junky. Sorry I purchased a fluke 87 new. Live and learn. Anyhow stick to good names and you can't go to wrong. As for ebay silly prices for really high risk equipment. I quit using ebay about 4 years ago. I actually had purchased numbers of things from the auctions. But ebay seemed to want to know far to much info on me. As they say time to shut her down.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Bob Camp <li...@cq.nu> wrote: > Hi > > About 8 years ago a whole lot of companies dumped a whole lot of test gear. > Prices dropped rapidly as they did so. It's taken us all quite a while to > burn through that pile of stuff. > > The amazing thing is that as bad as the economy is now, you don't see > people doing the same sort of thing. You see oceans of people out of work, > but not piles of test gear getting sold off. > > Bob > > > On Jan 22, 2010, at 2:12 AM, Don Latham wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul swed" <paulsw...@gmail.com> > >> Its unfortunate but there used to be flea markets with truckloads of > test > >> equipment. > >> Very inexpensive power supplies and everything else. But much of that > has > >> gone to ebay. > >> You still find a bargain now and again. But nothing like 5 years ago. > > > > The dollar buys less than it did a mere 5 years ago; the flea market is a > real market and there is a lot of stuff IMHO sitting on shelves unsold. ebay > also has a lot of stuff in "stores" with absurd prices on it; it won't sell > either. Eventually the prices will drop, I hope... > > > > Don > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
