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Old 03-16-2014, 09:48 PM
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A buddy in my antique car club is a contractor and was at a house quoting a job and saw the guy had all this old electronics equipment/parts, etc. He started talking to the guy and turns out he did not want most of the stuff. It belonged to a friend of his wife's, whose husband died and it was his stuff. He was looking to "give" it away. My buddy gave him my contact info and I went over to his place today and came away with a good haul. Here are some photos:

1. Tubes, tubes and more tubes
2. Tub is full of resistors, mica caps, diodes, sand covered power resistors, terminal strips, electrolytic cap can insulating rings, tube sockets, and more!
3. US ARMY tube tester
4. Heathkit Ham set
5. Signal Generator
6. Other tubs of resistors, more test equipment
7. Drawers of stuff that I have not even looked at yet
8. Transistor Tester

Dumped stuff in my storage unit until I can get it home. Cannot wait to go through all this stuff. Guy wanted to unload it all so fast that I did not get a chance to really go through most of it. There could be anything in those tubs and drawers!
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Old 03-16-2014, 09:50 PM
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Old 03-16-2014, 09:57 PM
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Old 03-17-2014, 12:23 AM
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Cool Heathkit. I'm looking for its HF cousin, the RX-1 Mohawk...
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Old 03-17-2014, 10:58 AM
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It is good that this stuff was saved from the dump. Most people do not know what it is and see very little use for it. I am embarrassed to tell you all that back in 1988, my uncle passed away. He was 83. I helped his daughter get rid of "stuff" I remember dumping boxes of tubes into the dumpster and at least one case of NOS Oscilloscope CRTs. My uncle worked for Westinghouse and at the time, I was not into tubes. I had moved on into solid state devices.

Only in the last few years, have I gravitated back to vacuum tubes. Oh well. Most likely there were some NOS 45 tubes there because my uncle repaired radios. Hmmm. I wonder what happened to the Atwater Kent console that was in the living room???
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Old 03-17-2014, 11:29 AM
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That looks like a nice variety there. Did I see three tube testers?
Somebody is always looking to trade up to better equipment and MAARC has a good swap meet down there.
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Old 03-17-2014, 11:35 AM
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Now, THAT'S a "Scroe !" (grin) Good Job !
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Old 03-17-2014, 11:46 AM
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Wow, lucky day for you I see lots of TV tubes there, and a lot of nice equipment as well, great score!
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Old 03-17-2014, 11:49 AM
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That's a lot of good stuff there. It's good that these parts and equipment gets saved instead of getting tossed. I've added the contents of 2 radio shops and 2 TV repair shops to my stash in the last few years, and I'm negotiating for all of the SAMS and equipment and parts from a third right now. My landlord is a former TV repairman who retired in '96 and has kept all his stuff since then.
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