That Tim, is a really great story! Very fortuitous for many reasons! Cheers,
Nick Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 2, 2016, at 00:31, Tim Laing <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had a pure luck moment on Craigslist, was looking for French doors, nothing > of interest. Then while I was at it, I looked for Tektronix, nothing > interesting. Then electronic test equipment.... Down the listings, and posted > about four weeks ago were Burroughs B7971s. Selling as untested but working > about 20 years ago when removed from working industrial screw counting > machine that was scrapped. There were up to 8 tubes available. $100 for 2, > $350 for all 8. I contacted the seller who was in Columbus OH about 85 miles > from me. He was real nice. If he didn't have to ship them I could have them > for $300. We also agreed I could test them before purchase. So I got off work > at 6 AM go home get some sleep and the wife and road trip! I went to his > place of work where I was amazed to find they custom manufacture flow meters > in house. The flow meters are completely designed and assembled including the > circuit boards right in their moderate sized building. Some even go to NASA > for use with their launch systems. He is the circuit and circuit board > designer. Neat!! > Well I got a complete tour, met the owners dog etc. It seems like a great > place to work! > I brought my lambda dual 0-250 power supply along and the testing > proceeded. 7 good, one with a dead vertical segment probably open weld. So he > said $250 for the 8. He didn't have change for a $20 so we agreed on $247 as > I didn't have any other change. I am a very happy camper. > He also really likes the old 60s HP nixie volt meters and counters. He has > taken apart and repaired the LDR coupling units in these units. He has lots > of other geek electronics as well. On top of all this he works only about 7 > miles from where our son and his family live. So we went out and had a nice > dinner afterwards with the family. Now that was one Nixielisious day! I > think we are going to have a good friendship going down the road. Tim > Laing. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/0811D2C9-6D26-4954-9FDB-2DED4634A80F%40wcoil.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/7EA8E7ED-9F7B-459E-8382-8C5A57C4A12D%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
