Do you have any antique measuring equipment? Do you like old gear?
I shure do and as I have some rather obscure hobbies there's also the odd very specialised piece of
equipment. So I thought it worthwhile to share that with you my fellow nerds.
Feel free to contribute!
First a very old Siemens ampere meter. Range 0,1/1/10A. Very accurate and has no problems with burden voltage. I use this thing a lot.
Then my BBC Goerz Unigor 6e analogue multimeter. This thing has it all: True RMS, down to 1µA. Probably one of the best analogue meters you could buy 30 odd years ago.
BBC Goerz later merged with Metrawatt.
Here's another Metrawatt: The P1 Thermometer. -60...+210°C, very usefull tool. And way better than
those rubbish thermocouples you get with cheap meters.
A nearly 50 year old Hameg 107 oscilloscope. This one's here because I saved it from the skip. All tube, not a single semiconductor inside. Can still be used in AF work. Very cute little thing but only 2MHz bandwidth.
Now something more specialised: Topward Distortion Meter. I do a lot of AF work where this proved to be invaluable.
And even more specialised: A Wow & Flutter meter. My other hobby is everything to do with magnetic tape. So I still run a few reel to reel's and cassette decks. Here this thing comes in handy. No other use for it though.
My darling: The HP 400F AC millivoltmeter. This is one of the most used peaces of gear I own. I find it unvaluable for AF work.
And lastly my bench multimeter. I use this much more than my hand held ones. Mainly because it never has a flat battery and is always here. My hand helds always end up somwhere else or without juice.
It's only 3,5 digits but that's enough for me. It is True RMS though, wich is important.
Oh, and don't let me forget my beloved TI calculators. I love that old style with the tiny red LED displays. I have about 5 or 6 of them, everytime I see one for a few Euros i have to buy it, kind of compulsory
.
I don't knw what the people at school thought of me when I turned up with my old TI-30 calculator. They all had shiny new TI-30's with boring LCD displays
.