My TEA (test equipment addiction) is so bad I am scrounging around dumpsters looking for a hit.
Came up with the goods tonight, a used but nothing wrong, Hewlett Packard Trolley, best price = free. HiHi.
Seriously I do find ir sad that such potentially good gear gets trashed all the time.
Great find - it must have cost a fortune when it was new. And in my experience here, HP carts are a rarity (I've never seen one firsthand) compared to the Tektronix ones that, relatively speaking, grow on trees (I wish!). Based on the wheels, that one looks more like a medical type cart than test lab. Regardless of its originally intended use, it looks nice and solid.
-Pat
Speaking of medical carts...
About 6 or 7 years ago, I was managing my parent's business after they retired. It was a pallet recycling operation. We got a lot of our pallets from these guys who would basically drive around in pickup trucks with a little trailer or small flat beds and collect the pallets from local businesses, maybe 20 or 30 a week. Anyway, these guys would come in sometimes with *amazing* dumpster finds.
So, one of the guys brought us pallets he collected from the local hospital. One day he had one of those big medical carts on the back of his truck. The kind with all the drawers and the big flat top, the huge rubber castor wheels; constructed out of rugged plastic, rubber, fiberglass and metal... Sort of like the one below, only with more (but not quite as tall) drawers on the right hand side.
Apparently, they were upgrading to newer carts on that floor and were just trashing the old ones! He ended up giving me two of them. They make *amazing* tool carts for a shop or garage! I left one at the pallet plant (for fixing stuff around the shop) and took the other one home. Used it until I moved for fixing my car and bike (it was fantastic, because I kept it loaded up with pretty much any tool you'd need to work on a vehicle, and it had that flat top so you could work on parts and stuff).
When I moved, I put it in storage. I should dig it out, as it'd make an awesome lab cart.