Holy crap -- HUGE electronics collection

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I was recently a bit taken aback at Mr. Carlson's lab's collection of Tek oscilloscopes. He would need his own substation to power up all those things at the same time.

It's running ok for me. Perhaps there was a glitch when you tried.

Working now.

That's a decent sized space. reminds me of The Radio TV Laboratory in Chicago. I'm pretty sure everyting went to the scrappers in the end. The walkways clogged over the years and customers had to backout single file to let next the next customer in. Old hardware stores are sort of fun to browse when they close down too. I've never figured out why they just stockpile random merchandise that could have easily sold.

I recently got some "new" Diamond brand wire cutters with the copper rivet at some weird hardware store. The packaging mentions Triangle Industries, but not Cooper, so they're pre 1993. Frequently these local hardware stores acquire the inventory of other closed one, but still, these were stored for nearly 3 decades before being sold. It just makes no sense.

yeah, this is a very unique collection. the title is misleading as it's WAY more than Heathkit. looks like it's just a 4 week old video. I wonder where it's located and who the guy is ? sounds like it's now an estate.

have never seen anything even close to this.

It's a wild collection- the stuff looks like its been stored nicely too, not in some flooded basement. I want to see some more of the non "showroom" space. There has to be tons of fun stuff along those aisles.

It's a strange "collection" for sure that after a point seems like more hoarding-type behavior and vaguely mentally ill, than a rational collector or someone trying to turn a profit.

Collection of Heathkit like that might've easily beat the market on ROI if sold off piecemeal during retirement but the owner has now passed and there it sits and it'll get pennies on the dollar at an estate sale and someone else will make the money hawking it on eBay.

I was at a model train show today where there are older guys who lay out whole tables of Lionel, modern and vintage, just eye-watering amounts of stuff, almost none of it priced to move and they aren't interested in negotiating. I get the sense some of them are just there to show off their gear/their wife bugged them "WOULD YOU TRY TO GET RID OF SOME OF THAT JUNK!!" and they come home with about what they set out with and tell her "Sigh, just not a good day for sales I guess"

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Joe Walsh will be there to buy up all the HAM gear. His collection is awesome.

It may have just been a collection for fun and not an attempt to make a profit. If the owner's dream was to have 1/5th of the entire production of Heathkit stuff, well, they did great job. I own some stuff to have the item. What it sells for this week is irrelevant. It was never purchased to flip like an ebay seller does.

Sounds like they were having fun. There's a guy I sometimes get tools from that's been trying to wind down his business. I really can't tell if this years long process to empty a small building is for real or not. Prices sure haven't dropped.