If you ask me (and no one did, but...) I don't mess with vintage repair equipment unless there is no substitute (like a tube tester). For *me* given I am of limited skill to begin with, a scope should be fairly new, clean and calibrated. Unless you're into restoring voltmeters and scopes and such I would spend only $900 for a modern scope. Essentially I need working low-milage test equipment for my vintage repairs, if only so to control fault variables. Bill On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:20 AM Devin Heitmueller via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 7:38 PM William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On facebook marketplace:
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3526479520940602/
Now, I already have all the scopes I can use, but some of you may need one (or an upgrade to what you already have). There are some good scopes in here, as well as other things like signal generators.
The seller shows no interest in selling the pieces one at a time. He
wants
to unload the lot. His price has been all over the place. It started at $500, then 400, then 300, then $1700 (!), and now it's down to $900.
If several of y'all wanted to go in together on this lot it'd probably be worth your while, if this stuff works.
I have no connection to the seller. I just don't want the scopes to end up in the dumpster.
Wow, my first real scope was a Tek 465 just like the one pictured.
The price being all over the place makes combined with no idea whether any of them work makes this feel like a gamble. Given the fact that you can buy scopes new for so cheap I'm not sure it's worth it (I bought a Tektronix dual channel 50Mhz scope for less than $500 a few years back, and scopes by companies like Rigol are much cheaper than that).
I'm all for not seeing good test gear end up in a landfill, but oscilloscopes are essentially a commodity at this point and there isn't a significant cost advantage in not buying new (unless you can get one for free).
Devin