RCA WR-61B and WR-64A color bar generators: what to keep?

[Electronic M]

The 64 is the most likely to go since it appears to be the same gated rainbow pattern that my Heathkit has (only the Heath does a lot more).

The friend that dumped the 61 on me said it sorta worked so I guess I'll give each a turn on the variac and TV and see for myself if they do anything that merrits the space they consume. I'm pretty sure the answer to that will be no.

[Popester]

Used the 64 when I worked at the shop back in the seventies. They have solid state ones now that would take up a lot less space. It's hard to get rid of stuff. Truly an American disease: stuff.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Popester

Used the 64 when I worked at the shop back in the seventies. They have solid state ones now that would take up a lot less space. It's hard to get rid of stuff. Truly an American disease: stuff.

I've got 2 smaller lighter SS Heathkits (one with vector scope) that do gated rainbow, H,V and cross hatch lines, and some pocket sized gens I need to test/fix... I'm somewhere around half Heath half DVD pattern broadcast over my agile modulator these days.

I do a pretty good job of dumping the crap I know I'll never use, it is the stuff I might need and worse yet the cool crap I want to keep that is getting me...I also let folks give me junk too much...both those RCAS came from folks telling me "I want this out of my life, PLEASE take it"...a fair portion of my less used test equipment found me that way...

Sometimes in life you adopt equipment and sometimes the equipment adopts you...I feel like I need to add an " in Soviet Russia" to that sentence.