[Milsurplus] parting rigs

[J. Forster]

Hue Miller wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
>
> > I have seen current, working Tektronix scopes donated to
> > vocational schools for the students to practice soldering on. Both things are
> > vandalism, IMO.
>
> Do you mean by "current" scopes, models such as TEK 465 and later?
> Or the old tube monsters?

465B, 7704A, 7904A, ........-John

> If the former, that's a  waste of resources, but they're hardly rare or
> collectible, and probably never will be, except maybe to retain an example or
> two for a "history of scopes" display.
> If the latter, maybe a few examples should be retained somewhere in a display
> also,  but very, very  few people find these huge tube scopes have the allure
> of  historical associations  that make  them interesting, desirable  collectibles.
> So i don't understand your scope example.
> -Hue Miller