Hi Dave, You have established a new price point for oscilloscopes: $0.95 / MHz. Cheers, Mark
I do not understand all the exitement (but I have not looked the video, I unserstand from the topic its an old analog low BW Hameg, if not then forget my rant
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Here in Holland a rather normal price for analog scopes is around 1 euro/MHz upto 3 euro/MHz for a more special one. (but real special scopers can do more) A 10 or 20 MHz can easy be bought under 50 euro.
Scopes I got offered for free the last 5 years: two 1 GHz Philips sample scopes (dead, fixed one, kept the other for spares), a Tek 547 (prime condition), 2 x 545 (one dead, HV transformer, the other given away in unkown condition), 546 (given away), 2 x 535, 453 (in perfect shape, resqued from scrapping because nobody wanted it after 2 weeks of adbvertising it for free), a dead 465 (fixed and gave away, a Philips 75 MHz (perfect shape, gave away), a Hameg mini scope from the 60' s (in my collection), a Thandar 10 MHz miniscope (use it on hollydays), a Fairchild 777 (dead and no manuals), two old Philips scopes from the 50's (traded to a 1948 multimeter), a tele-equipment (gave it away) and I probably forget some more.
Bought a HP1740 100 MHz with probes for 100 euro (gave it to a friend), a Tek 7704 and 7603 together 125 euro (still use them), a 2445 for 125 euro (gave it to a student)
The most expensive per MHz was a Tek 212, that was 80 euro/MHz ( 40 euro for a 500kHz scope ;-)
I have enough scopes but still get them offered, sadly had to turn down about 6 scope offered this year. I know two Tek mainframe scopes with 5 plugins that are trashed by the owner about a week ago, no interest after a week advertising them for free pickup. I know about a 535A, a 545, a 546 that are scrapped because of the same reason.
So there seems to be a strange thing going on, on the one hand people who want to get rid of there sopes for nothing but can not find candidates or ask little money . And on the other hand lots of people who want to spend 50-200 dollar for scopes the other owners can not get rid of for less as 50 dollar or even for free. I think both do not look at the right place (I think most must learn to look at other places as epay with the extreme prices because many buyers are just addicted to gamblin and are dying to " win" everything many other people are interested in, the attract each other like bees
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By the way, do not mail me, I have no scopes at the moment to give away and I am not planning to make a list or so