[Test-Equipment] [Boatanchors] somewhere there is a mountain of probes of all types rant ---

[Bill Fuqua]

Probes for these are hard to find since they not only get separated from 
the instrument when they are surplused but
are easily broken, which is often why they are surplused.
Good luck.
73
Bill wa4lav


At 02:42 PM 6/1/2010 -0400, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
>I bought a Bell 640 on eBay a few months ago and of course ran into the
>same problem.  The seller actually did have some probes but they were not for
>the 620/640.  After checking with a local electronics surplus place and with
>my former employer and finding nothing, I started doing an eBay search about
>every 4 or 5 days.  Took about a month but one that I could use did finally
>turn up.
>
>You didn't say what model your gaussmeters are but it will probably help
>your search if you have the probe listing chart for probes that will work 
>with
>them.  I don't recall where I found it but I have the chart for the 600
>series if that's what you need.
>
>In a message dated 6/1/2010 1:16:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
>pete at petelancashire.com writes:
> > Just imagine how big the pile would be of all those pieces of test
> > gear on sees for sale with out their respective probes. Even just FW
> > Bell probes would fill a stadium\
> >
> > In frustration  trying to find a probe for the two FW Bell Gauss
> > meters sitting in front of me.
> >
> > -pete rant over ....
>
>Robert Downs - Houston
>wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
>MVPA 9480
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