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Who cuts all the cables when removing test equipment????.........

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Smokey:
I see this all the time on ebay.  Working equipment that was "removed from service" by just hacking all the connected cables with some wire cutters.



Cut power cords... Cut GPIB.. Cut Coax...

WTF?  Who does this?  I mean even the guys tasked with liquidating a bankrupt company's assets must have some idea that those assets still have some value. 

And a further WTF... why leave those hacked up cables connected to the equipment when you list it on ebay???

coromonadalix:
well humans  loll   some simply don't care, they cut and pile them on shelves or skid ....

DaJMasta:
For some companies getting rid of equipment, they have a requirement for the equipment not to be operational, and sometimes cutting all the cables suffices for the requirement (sometimes it's smashing the screen, instead.)  And there are some surplusing operations that is just trying to do volume and is not trying to resell with testing/research/knowledge of what it's worth, so they're basically trying to get as many pallets of the stuff out the door in a day as possible, and this means that cords that don't pull out get snipped.

In your case, imagine a salvage company gets called in to remove a rack of equipment.  They can't ship the whole racks, so they remove it from the front and snip anything in back, then sell for parts as an auction.  Requires no knowledge of the equipment or condition and maximizes the amount of items they can list in a day.

Rough, sometimes careless work, but there are business models where it can make sense.

coppice:
The kind of people who clear out places that go into receivership aren't exactly the smartest, and seldom have any tools not designed for cutting. They enter a lab, with all the equipment sitting on benches, wired for the tests taking place at the time the bailiffs shut the place down. They might have figured out the bayonet fit of the BNC connectors, but there is no way they would have undone the retaining screws on the IEEE488 connector. A lot of these clear outs turn some valuable equipment into worthless trash. This equipment has largely survived.

jjoonathan:
My favorite are the chips shamelessly chunked out of their boards. These listings are one crusty street cart and a few neon lights short of a crazy cyberpunk novel. Truly, we live in the future!

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