Everything is more expensive here. Annoys the hell out of me.
Come Down Under for a few weeks' T&M bargain shopping, if you dare.
You'll soon find out that we are still a penal colony in that space.
You say that but when Dave goes to the warehouse sales he gets far better deals then we ever get here so it's not all bad there.
Yeah, I remember that 1 gig 'scope he "found dumpster-diving" last All Fool's Day... ![Tongue :P](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
mnem
*Typed on a PC that's 60% 40% dumpster-score*
Yeh, I remember that one too, but then there was the HP 1740A, the TV etc that clearly were real.
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These things are Dave's "dumpster dives".
As he has said (more than once) access to these dumpsters absolutely excludes the public. The dumpsters are located within secure premises. The scroungers among us have dreams of such resources, but they just do not happen.
For the average Joe, Australia is a wasteland for second hand T&M.
This sums up my experience as well:
104 results for (oscilloscope, cro) Used in Australia Only - includes probes accessories manual and about 60 Oscilloscopes total. Most of which are beyond salvation or overpriced to the ![Rant :rant:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/rant.gif)
Over 5000 in the USA evilbay by example. Cheaper to pay stupid amounts of freight to get a good price and range.
Yeah, when I lived in San Antonio I had similar access to dumpsters on several hospital campuses and several business offices. Found a lot of computer gear to recycle, and I was a licensed E-Waste handler, so once security got to know me, they just smiled and walked on by. Not a lot of test gear, though I did get a lot of network and telephony tools that way. Still have a Fluke 22 handset (well, the new Fluke 22 my insurance company bought to replace the one I got that way) and a LanTracker I use almost daily. And I had a dozen or more laser and commercial inkjet printers of all sorts up for sale on fleaBay and the e-Swap pretty much constantly. Kept me in ESCs and motors and LiPos quite nicely.
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Here's what I've been doing all day, by request a few of the photos otherwise I'll be accused of being off topic ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif)
![](https://i.imgur.com/29MuKPi.jpg)
Nice shots... I'm a little envious. Thanks for sharing with us earthbound misfits.
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Can you lot help me identify this?
Near as i can tell it had something to do with audio, given the headphone jacks. With the 4 pin tubes it is obviously '20s probably been kicking around this green globe since before my granddad was born. So this leaves me wondering if without tubes is it worthless?
All that IS there is a crusty transformer, semi crusty variable capacitors and what smells like a 100 year old hunk of wood. No manufacture name that I've yet found
TRF = Tune Radio Frequency?
Yup, TRF receiver; what they had before the advent of SuperHet rigs. No real IFs, poor selectivity as each section amplified a pretty broad range and had to be tuned section by section.
Here's a basic schematic of a pretty common TRF build similar to yours; it's from
the TRF Receiver Wiki page.
mnem
*nukular*