Precisely my point, But when purchasing i expect to pay for a calibration at a minimum.
Helps to make friends with the local cal lab though as frequently far better pricing can be negotiated if you can get your instruments done on a non-critical basis as most of the business of a lab is time sensitive but like any other business they have slow periods. So your turnaround might be 3-4 weeks instead of 72 hours but the price is half of the 72 hour turn > On Sep 15, 2017, at 4:07 AM, Clint Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Experience has shown me that you can reasonably purchase good, working test > equipment that's well within calibration tolerances if you are buying the > more 'common' equipment, 6.5 digit meters, frequency counters, even a > Stanford SR620... > > I've been very lucky with those, two spectrum analysers and various other > bits of test gear I'd never have been able to afford any other way, saving > thousands over what even tatty examples from equipment brokers would have > cost. > > Yes, you can get bitten and buy a complete POS but you can also take > sensible precautions and get bargains. > >> On 14 Sep 2017 18:01, "Scott McGrath" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Its an unrealistic expectation that equipment from the well known auction >> site will work and be 'in-cal' >> >> Its realistic to anticipate several the purchase cost to get well priced >> instruments back 'in-cal'. But hey if i spend 2 k on a sweeper 3 k to fix >> and cal it and BlahTest is charging 10k for a ready to go unit im Still 5 k >> ahead of the game >> >> Content by Scott >> Typos by Siri >> >>>> On Sep 12, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Dan Rae <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 9/12/2017 5:58 AM, GandalfG8--- via time-nuts wrote: >>>> A friend of mine has bought a just out of calibration R & S XSRM >> Rubidium >>>> standard from one of the so called "recyclers" on Ebay. >>> Nigel / David, >>> >>> Sorry to hear of your "bargain". However I doubt very much that the >> lamp was made by R&S themselves, like with the Racal 9475 unit it was >> probably sourced either as a module or as parts from someone like Efratom >> and one of those lamps will be found to fit. I'm not in a position to help >> much at present (just coming out of Chemo). My Racal which was in a >> similar or worse state when I got that, now comes to life when needed. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Dan >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ >> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ >> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
