[R-390] OT - Ebay Funny For Friday

[John Lawson]

  eBay item 7595500499  (an HP 160 - USM/115 SCope for $10,000!!!)


On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Tom Norris wrote:

> At first I was going to email the seller about his pricing typo.  Then I read

   Four folks (at least) folks have already done so.  I'm not sure that I 
understand what seems to be the Seller's 'agenda' here: He says that the 
unit is set at a BIN of $10K because "I have a high price because I like 
keeping this item in my house. ITs getting to be a very rair investment 
piece...."  No fear, Gene. It should stay right where you can see and 
admire it, for years and years to come...

  Rair indeed.    Probably one of the most P.O.S. scopes HP (and many other 
companies - Hickok, LaVoie, Capehart, etc) ever made....  unreliable, 
'drifty' - HEAVY -  'rair' because the goddamed things were all heaved 
piecemeal into the scrap where they belonged.

   Anyone whose ever tried to fix one of these turkeys will tell you the 
same thing.  I've had four or five....  yuk!

   And I'm not (vintage) HP-bashing - far from it!  But this model series 
was just one of those designs that everybody wishes to forget.  I've seen 
a pile of about 100 of them at a surplus place - most had the rear CRT 
socket cover removed and a 1/8" drill run into the CRT base, through the 
press - and ssssssssss!!!!. "Sir, this scope is not working - the Depot 
says it's 'unserviceable - condemned' - we need to order the new 
USM/[whatever the Tek military 100Mhtz replacement was]."




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    eBay: plenty of Junque to buy and sell, and sporadic amusement, too!!


   Thanks Tom - you perked up my snowy morning!


Cheers

John  KB6SCO