Nice scores! Wish I could've been there for the AmScope. I'd make room for that.
If you want it, I can probably get it for $325ish and ship it to you.
Thanks, but they show up locally from time to time. I've also seen other brands get cleared out by labs on occasion, but need to do more research as I'm not familiar with them.
yeah, a microscope that big is one of those nice-but-not-necessary pieces of gear, especially since my entire bench is approximately twelve square feet.
In other news, I am back from my road trip (160 miles out and back) to look at an 485 that was advertised as
working, which it wasn't. But it wasn't in bad shape, I could get a bit of light on the screen in XY mode, all the dials light up, and it wasn't beat to crap. I grumbled a bit about spending four hours on the road to look at a busted scope and offered 75USD. Said offer accepted.
While I was wandering around his shop, I discovered two TM500 pulse generators and one each of a function generator, DMM, and PSU. The chap's definition of "working" is apparently,
smoke didn't pour out of it when I powered it up, with prices based on the highest number ever found on ebay, so there was a small disagreement about the value of the stuff. A deal materialized after I left the entire pile on a table, politely said,
no thanks, picked up the 485, and headed for the truck.
I do believe I now have enough stuff in the fix-it queue to keep me occupied through the end of the year.