The garage treasure house saga continues... the gentleman who sold me the pickup bed sized load of HP, Tek and RTTY ham gear called and asked if I wanted to see what was left. I took a box of mostly NIB audio gear that I acquired over the year, you know,
just in case.First he shows me an AmScope trinocular microscope with the boom stand, camera, light. Too big for my tiny bench, though tempting. Next to that is a National Instruments digital scope and a plastic bag filled with metal.
What's that? Oh, just a bunch of metal bits I am going to scrap. I dug around a bit and found this:
In the pile were thirty NEC microwave transistors (with an fT of 4.5GHz), along with an assortment of fifteen or so moto RF power transistors.
ummm, do you mind if I sort these parts out of the scrap metal? Ten minutes of chatting and going through mostly empty parts cabinets resulted in a baggie filled with heat sinks, 10.7MHz IF transformers, and an assortment of hole plugs. Since I devote hours to taking them
out of gear, I resisted the urge to add a pile of NOS Tektronix tantalums.
I traded a sound mixing board and digital recorder for the lot. I am fairly certain that I have exhausted this particular stash. Tomorrow I am driving down to Corvallis to visit that 485 that I can't seem to resist.
PS - I found the video software that goes with the NI microscope and convinced the tech support rep to give me a copy. I imagine I will spend the evening looking at bugs and stuff.