Beauty of old electrical and measuring things, etc.

[dlgoff]

Looks nice on that wall. Looks like you're running out of wall space, though!

I'm now out of space on this wall. Here is my last meter; Bendix microwave frequency meter:

 

[anorlunda]

My aunt and uncle collected stuff from auctions. When their house got full of stuff, they bought the house next door. When that house filled, they bought the house next to that.

BTW, I love that quote from Jim Hardy. He was the Mark Twain of his age.

 

[dlgoff]

I'm now out of space on this wall. Here is my last meter; Bendix microwave frequency meter:
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I had to raise it up a little. Too much weight on the clock:

BTW, I love that quote from Jim Hardy. He was the Mark Twain of his age.

He was indeed. I remember asking him if it were okay to use this quote and his name.

 

[dlgoff]

@anorlunda
I Thought about posting this on this thread, as it was given to me by Jim: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/member-jim-hardy-has-died.974435/,
but I'll post it here instead:

 

[berkeman]

I Thought about posting this on this thread, as it was given to me by Jim: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/member-jim-hardy-has-died.974435/,
but I'll post it here instead:

I started to give you a warning for a political post, but then realized that it seems to apply to both political parties. So nevermind...

 

[dlgoff]

I started to give you a warning for a political post, but then realized that it seems to apply to both political parties. So nevermind...

You know, I never thought about the rules about political post. Thanks @berkeman

 

[dlgoff]

Here's a beauty that fits the title of this thread. I mounted on my meter and gauge wall:
It's a MODEL 3 Survey Meter made by Ludlum Measurements Inc.
The meters unit of measurement is Counts/Minute.

 

[dlgoff]

My mentor Andy Anderson, W0AFQ, bought me an EICO Model 565 multi-meter kit so I could learn to solder. After putting it together, it didn't work, so Andy opened it and soldered all the cold joints. I did learn how to solder correctly; thanks Andy. The needle was broken into several pieces, so I tried to "glue" it back together. Here's a photo of it on my meter wall:

 

[dlgoff]

Here are some beauties. They're not electrical but are really old. Most came from Arkansas and some from Kansas.

I'm going to use silicone sealant to attach them to the board.

 

[dlgoff]

Here are the arrow heads after they were attached with silicone sealant:

 

[dlgoff]

I don't know if I've posted this old beautiful boat navigation light before, but @jim hardy knew exactly what it was when he saw it as he loved boats. e.g.
https://www.physicsforums.com/attachments/bogityshoop_zps7b23f4c3-jpg.168946/
It uses either an incandescent bulb or a kerosene lamp to light it:

 

[dlgoff]

Okay, finally something electrical that I know I haven't shown here before. I bought these little robots from Radio Shack back before they filed chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015:

 

[berkeman]

I didn't know robots could file for bankruptcy!

 

[jedishrfu]

They can, its a pretext to world conquest.

 

[DennisN]

I didn't know robots could file for bankruptcy!

Maybe they were charged too much?

 

[dlgoff]

Here's a beauty that's only electrical in that it was related to Television. I was helping this lady clean out a storage unit at an apartment complex. She wanted me to put all the stuff in a dumpster. But I just couldn't throw this away. It's a television press pass for the Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis II boxing match on November 13, 1999:

There's a Turkey sticker on it making it kind of appropriate for this time of the year.

 

[dlgoff]

I've never used this with my vacuum system (which IS electrical) as it looks too fragile for the low pressures my system can achieve so it's just one of my "Beauties" that I look at.

It has a copper sealing ring on the bottom.

 

[dlgoff]

Here's something you don't see much these days:

I wish I had a machine to use it with.

 

[berkeman]

Oh wow. That's all I had when I was in my early teens. My dad used it for some audio recording that he was doing, and I was able to buy a couple reel-to-reel tapes to listen to (I pretty much wore out my copy of Santana Abraxas).

 

[dlgoff]

I pretty much wore out my copy of Santana

I can for sure understand that. I've got lots of their music. Luckily, it all digital on my PC.

 

[NTL2009]

Here's something you don't see much these days:

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I wish I had a machine to use it with.

Boy, that brings back some memories. I only had a small reel-to-reel (3 1/2" reels?) - this would be late 60's early 70's. But I recall getting hold of some of those old 7" reels, I think some were archived local radio shows, and putting them on my smaller reels.

 

[jedishrfu]

My friend converted all his albums and others he could find to reel to reel tape so he could get free of the record player.

 

[Borg]

I have one of these that I backed up data on but I don't have the device to read it.

 

[jedishrfu]

Here’s a place that can get those files for you if they are retrievable

https://dvdyourmemories.com/blog/transfer-your-old-zip-disks-and-floppy-disks-to-your-computer/

says $10 a Zip disk.

 

[dlgoff]

I have one of these that I backed up data on but I don't have the device to read it.

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I have the device to read those. I'd have to look around in my junk boxes to find it though. If I do find it, I'll let you know. I don't really need it anymore.

 

[DaveE]

I wish I had a machine to use it with.

Lots of them on eBay.

 

[dlgoff]

Lots of them on eBay.

Thanks. I'll do some looking.

 

[Borg]

I have the device to read those. I'd have to look around in my junk boxes to find it though. If I do find it, I'll let you know. I don't really need it anymore.

No problem. I'm sure there isn't anything important on it. It's just funny how data storage has changed in the last 20 years.

 

[dlgoff]

No problem. I'm sure there isn't anything important on it. It's just funny how data storage has changed in the last 20 years.

Okay then. Let me know if you would like it sometime in the future.

 

[jedishrfu]

Don’t be that guy that tossed a hard drive in the garbage only to discover later that it held a portion of his bitcoin stash worth $250 million. He tried to get his city to dig up the dump to find it and would share a portion of his stash with them. They said no.

https://news.bitcoin.com/man-accidentally-threw-away-7500-bitcoins-hard-drive-new-plan-retrieve-btc/