AUCTION(AU) WA power supplies , CRO analogue, soldering stations etc.

[wilfred]

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[Harvs]

Thanks wilfred, there's a few things in that lot I'll go have a look at on Monday.

Unfortunately due to there being such a lack of this type of gear in WA, I highly doubt any of the more interesting items will go for "cheap".

[peter.mitchell]

There are some other VERY nice lots in that same sale, for example... http://www.graysonline.com/lot/0086-9000710/office-furniture-and-equipment/oscilloscope-agilent-technologies ...

[Harvs]

Yep that's exactly the lot I'm very interested in.  It's hard though not knowing exactly what model it is.

Placed a bid, lets see how it goes.  As I said, cannot see it being cheap though.

[peter.mitchell]

Who cares if it doesn't go cheap, or what model it is, the cheapest model in that series is like $1900+ second hand if you get it for any 3 digit amount its still a steal, it looks like the 2ch version because probes, but still, new that scope would cost an arm and a leg.

[Harvs]

Yeah, the type of figures you're stating are what I'm considering cheap.

Keep in mind at this stage I have no guarantee that it works.

On Monday they have an open time for 4 hours to view items.  So I'll duck down during lunch and have a look, see if I can plug it in.

You also have to keep in mind with these auctions that there's 15% buyers fee + 10% GST on top of the complete figure, so about 28%.  If it went for $1500, that's actually $1900 you have to hand over.

So I'll make up my mind how much it's worth to me when I've seen it in person.

Cheers

[TerraHertz]

It's amusing that the Leader 100MHz scope has the same order of magnitude bidders and current price.
Could it be possible the auctioneers didn't realize the Agilent scope has a protective front cover, that comes off?
As they show it, it just looks like a nondescript beige box with some jumbled 'wires' inside. The way I think, that might mean someone at the auctioneers wants to bid, or has been 'incentivized' to minimize bidding pressure.

Anyway, good luck!

When you're inspecting it, don't take the front cover off while anyone is watching.

[TerraHertz]

No, I don't think so. They would have no specialist skill or knowledge about this stuff. They might just as easily be handling breadmaking equipment for a baker gone bust or shoes or bicycles.

Don't be _too_ sure. There's money involved.
I encountered this kind of 'auction insider subterfuge' once. It was during the auction of equipment at Sydney's old Cockatoo Island naval dockyards. I went to the inspection out of curiosity, but found one series of items that sent me into 'must have' hysterics. They had about eight 'steam oscilloscopes'. Yep! Mechanical oscilloscopes, for diagnosing steam engines. Beautiful wood instrument cases, containing an instrument that consisted of a kind of steampunk overkill contraption. Basically a graphpaper cylinder, that gets rotated by a cord you attach to some moving part on the steam engine. The graph pen gets moved up and down by steam pressure from where ever you attach the 'probe' (a pipe). So you get a diagram of pressure vs movement. Very cool. I'd never seen or heard of these before, but I have a bit of a steam fetish, so....

Scraped together what cash I could, and went to the all-day auction. Determined to get one.
Those items were late in the day. All day, every single item in the catalog was put up for bidding individually, and the auctioneer tried hard to prompt more bids.
Getting close to the 'steam scopes', the crowd had thinned a lot, I was getting excited.
Then he gets to the first of them. Suddenly "And now, the following 8 items together. What am I bid for them all?" Some guy in an expensive suit makes a way-high bid I can't hope to match. Autioneer: "Thank you sir, any more... no... done! Sold to... Now next item..."

It all happened too fast for me to get over my shock and start yelling. Also I was too shy those days to make a scene anyway. So shit...

He'd obviously been paid to make sure that guy in the suit got them all.
Still makes me angry.

[SeanB]

Auctioneers that are more bent than a corkscrew? Shock and horror! There must be some other reason why 3 local ones are busy being prepped for an all expenses holiday at the local no frills hilton at taxpayers expense........ The only one left now has 4 times the load to do.

[Harvs]

Well, whether that was the intent of the auctioneers or not, it hasn't worked.

I dropped in half an hour after the doors opened and already several people had come in and plugged it in.  In fact the scope and the other fancy looking piece of kit they'd put right by the door to make it easier for people to look at.

So it's at $1000+28% at the moment.  Since that model (MSO6032A) is going for $6000USD on ebay at the moment, I'd say there's still some bidding to go.

[peter.mitchell]

Merry Christmas I guess?

[peter.mitchell]

I think it ended up selling for $1399 x 15% x 10% or about $1770.

Someone who knows more about these things than me can categorise it as a bargain or not.

Considering you can't get the 100mhz version for that much i'd say so, especially since I think you could easily resell it for double. Though you probably want to keep it so...