That is entirely possible. I can’t say I haven’t thought of it before. Mainly because the designs are usually top notch and made of bog standard parts with pro electron numbering which are really easy to get here. Also when you get a “bad tek or HP day” ie having to pull the interface board out of a 475 or nearly kill your self trimming a power supply, you just want that engineering to go away
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TTi function generator, counter, power supplies, DMMs. Gould/Telequipment scope. Marconi RF gen and spectrum analyser. Antex iron (one of their higher end ones not fire stick).
If you want to jump into Europe a bit, it’s possible to kit a bench out with just Philips kit. That’s really nice. If you pit a PM3055 against a Tek 2225, which has the same price tier around the 1990 mark, the tek is shit
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I prefer a BC549 to a 2N3904 as well
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Edit: hmm I’m liking that idea.