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bd139:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 26, 2022, 07:01:28 pm ---OK, so my haul was

* a Fluke 515a portable calibrator for £20. Quick check shows Vdc excellent, µVdc cockeyed, resistors good, Vac not bad, unlikely the NiCd battery works, missing the unique front panel switch which I'll probably have to "improvise"
* three Muirhead decade resistors for £5. Looks good.
* Cropico 4 decade resistor box. A few resistors o/c, but can be replaced
* and the thing below for £5, which is probably as near as I will get to having a slice of the one lying around in my first job


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Excellent. Glad to see the 515A went to the right person.

As for the cable, that's a great ornament  :-+

bd139:

--- Quote from: factory on June 26, 2022, 07:13:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 26, 2022, 03:14:23 pm ---Ok Newbury megapost. It has been 3 years since the last one. Bloody COVID.

So what did I bag?


Next we have the HP 3311A function generator. Again it works absolutely fine. Paid £20 for it too. One of the feet fell to bits in the car but this is sort of expected.



Very nice



Will work out a new foot solution to this...




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Didn't you 3DP one of those feet sometime ago?
Don't know why, but that rear foot always seems to crumble, on that type of case, the front one for the tilting bail, must be made from a different plastic.

David

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I probably did. Can't remember that far back. I blocked my escapades in 3d printing out of my mind so I don't go down that rabbit hole again. Then again, never know what might happen  :popcorn:

factory:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 26, 2022, 06:17:56 pm ---I will make amends. My purchase rate of TE is higher than ever  :-DD

I got rid of the 7L12 because quite frankly it scared me. It could literally turn into a brick at any moment with no hope of repair. There are literally no parts mules for it or anything.

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Looking at the pile of SA crap I got at the last PP auction, the HP 8557/8/9 SA plug-ins aren't any better, the same mechanical parts, switch wafers & knobs are broken/missing on most of them.
Clearly the mixer, Yig oscillator and attenuator are trouble too, judging by them either being missing or labelled as futzed, though I suspect some of that might have been the operators fault.  :-BROKE

David

bd139:

--- Quote from: ch_scr on June 26, 2022, 06:56:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 26, 2022, 03:14:23 pm ---Ok Newbury megapost. It has been 3 years since the last one. Bloody COVID.

So what did I bag?

(...)
The Mullard Transistor Circuits Manual ...

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Damn that is nice bedtime lecture, I can see why it's highly sought after!

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Yes it's an excellent book.

My original copy of it I stole from the local library but they sent me a postal shit-o-gram with a large fine so I handed it back on an amnesty day about a year later  :-DD

mnementh:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 26, 2022, 03:14:23 pm ---...And now for something completely different. A small 50 ohm load. 10KW. And yes, that's the coax connector on the front  :-DD


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There is something very, very wrong with me... I just got a raging nerd-boner. No idea what in the world I'd do with it... I just know I want...  :-DD

mnem
"Waaaatt...?"

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