Vintage gear

[Paradox916]

So as I’m packing up my work bench, I grab this and thought uh.. I know some of you probably have passed down, gear and equipment. My grandfather was an aircraft mechanic and also built ham radios, I got a few pieces of his gear, this was one of them. You got any hand me downs, instruments, pedals, tools, that’s relevant to the hobby?

 

[Coda]

I have an old analog multimeter (AMM?) around here somewhere. I’ve never thought to try it out.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Got my old man's select-a-volt, an ancient spool of solder and a roll of solder wick. Oh and a bunch of RCA 12ax7s

 

[spi]

I have my dad's slide rule (and I think it was my grandfather's although I'm not sure).

 

[Paradox916]

I still have a box of NOS radio tubes… but I never unpacked those knowing we wouldn’t be here for more than a year or so….but pics! I want to see your old stuff!

 

[Harry Klippton]

I'll take pics tomorrow or something. Everybody is sleeping and I'm not gonna go rummaging around

 

[Paradox916]

I'll take pics tomorrow or something. Everybody is sleeping and I'm not gonna go rummaging around

Dude… I totally get it. If the kid isn’t sleeping real well I won’t even open a bag of chips.

 

[Feral Feline]

Slide-rule here as well.
Also, I’m going to have his draughting-table as my solder-bench soon — I brought over the chair for it tonight.
Currently using his old home-made desk he used in his uni-days.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Ok here's some old junk. I almost forgot about THE STASH. See last pic

 

[Paradox916]

That thing is awesome!

 

[HamishR]

Long ago my late father gave me his old drawing board and T-square, an adjustable set square and a few other technical drawing bits and pieces. So when my sone started studying architecture at Uni I gave this stuff to him, as I had used it myself at Uni during my design degree. But of course they don't use this stuff any more. It's all on computer now. :-(

 

[blackhatboojum]

I don’t really have any cool vintage hand me downs but, I was given some NOS 6005 tubes. I’m currently building a guitar amp that will utilize them.

 

[Paradox916]

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I don’t really have any cool vintage hand me downs but, I was given some NOS 6005 tubes. I’m currently building a guitar amp that will utilize them.

It doesn’t get much better than nos components.

 

[bowanderror]

View attachment 22780So as I’m packing up my work bench, I grab this and thought uh.. I know some of you probably have passed down, gear and equipment. My grandfather was an aircraft mechanic and also built ham radios, I got a few pieces of his gear, this was one of them. You got any hand me downs, instruments, pedals, tools, that’s relevant to the hobby?

At my work we have a Fluke 8020A, which is engraved with the company founder's name. It was the first handheld DMM on the market, and was top-of-the-line back in 1977. I don't have a pic of mine on hand, but it looks like this:



The switches are a pain to use compared to modern auto-ranging meters, and the lack of an audible conductivity tone means it doesn't get much use, but at least it's well made!

 

[Paradox916]

At my work we have a Fluke 8020A, which is engraved with the company founder's name. It was the first handheld DMM on the market, and was top-of-the-line back in 1977. I don't have a pic of mine on hand, but it looks like this:

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The switches are a pain to use compared to modern auto-ranging meters, and the lack of an audible conductivity tone means it doesn't get much use, but at least it's well made!

Agreed, It’s little goofy to use, but I still use it from time to time just because of sentimental reasons.