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

[Pete Lancashire]

i'll buy that .. having been a engineering tech a million years ago, we many
times would be in fear when a senior engineer would touch something, years
later when I was the engineer I could both laugh and cry. You could quite
easily see those that came from different backgrounds with concepts of cost
and how you treat things.

the good old days --

-pete

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Bill Fuqua <wlfuqu00 at uky.edu> wrote:
> 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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