Worth fixing up, or destined only for a new home on the scrap heap?
Asking price is too high either way IMO
Vintage eBay frequency counter question
Jul 10, 2017
11 Replies
There's cheaper alternatives to waste your time/money on.
Jeff-1.0
wa6fwi
http://www.foxsmercantile.com
Rode hard and put away wet...
Short answer is a resounding NO.
Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA
Unless it is for some collection, I would send it off to the scrap heap. I would not even think about paying the postage if it was given to me.
Some old things are worth playing with if you have nothing else to do. I don't think this is even one of those.
Gut it out. Build in a PC. Sell it to a hipster.
Adrian C
I appreciate the sanity-check ;-)
It's got like, toobs, man. They sound warm
If you like NIXIs strip them out and use modern driving and build a room clock , with a wow factor
Deffo.
Nice idea that.
Meh, I could buy a couple dozen good Soviet planned-economy strong-like-bear NOS nixies for that price.
Steampunk conversions are more interesting:
Take a closer look at red plastic in the panel on the photos. It kinda looks like those are Nixie tubes behind the plastic. That could make it some kind of collectors item. I assume that it does't work since the seller didn't bother plugging it in. So, you could modify it into a large Nixie tube digital clock and power line frequency meter, or just forget about it because it's far too much work.
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
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On closer inspection it looks like it's missing a backplane card too. Who knows where one would find a replacement...
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