Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 12:51:21 am
content: HiPer a request from herehttps://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/am-i-the-only-one-that-likes-%27stickers%27/msg776362/#msg776362Do you have any photos of your interesting and historical test equipment STICKERS you wish to share with us?thanks

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 01:27:58 am
content: following

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 02:48:35 am
content: A tag, not a sticker. Sony Tektronix 308 data analyzer.

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 03:26:01 am
content: Quote from: Bud on October 15, 2015, 02:48:35 amTags are good too.I didn't know Sony and Tek made stuff together.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 04:43:02 am
content: Marconi 6960 RF power meter. One of the early units, low serial number.

author: edpalmer42
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 05:32:33 am
content: I have an Efratom FRT Rb Standard that has an interesting little sticker in the bottom right hand corner. Yes, the sticker is that fuzzy. I haven't been able to find any information on the "Satellite Ground Systems Laboratory". Does anyone recognize it?Ed

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 10:28:43 pm
content: Kind of looks like the lettering got rubbed away.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 10:30:51 pm
content: Fun Stuff, I shall have to dig a bit to find something.

author: edpalmer42
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 11:00:05 pm
content: Quote from: bitseeker on October 15, 2015, 10:28:43 pmI don't think so. I think it looks like that because it's small (13 x 11 mm) and not very well printed.Ed

author: Jay_Diddy_B
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2015, 11:03:03 pm
content: Hi,Here is a set of asset tags on an HP5061B Cesium Frequency standard:The US Naval Observatory is responsible for maintaining UTC. So there is a strong possibility that this frequency standard was part of the Atomic Clock used to maintain UTC.The accuracy was 1 x 10-110-50oCYou think they could be a little more precise about the calibration is due ?It may not need calibration, because at the time it was a primary frequency standard.Regards,Jay_Diddy_B

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 12:13:20 am
content: It's so good, just bring it in whenever and we'll make sure it still doesn't need calibration.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 12:29:38 am
content: From under my desk.And yes it is quite useful.

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 01:08:31 am
content: NAVOCEANPROFAC <- And here I thought the military usually came up with concise, pronounceable acronyms for everything.

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 01:24:42 am
content: Quote from: bitseeker on October 16, 2015, 01:08:31 amMaybe there's a really simple way to say it elegantly, like HMMWV

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 01:35:03 am
content: Tek 1S1 plugin.

author: chuckb
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 02:20:19 am
content: The Dana Corporation had a team that built the first Direct Digital Synthesizer in the 70's. This was written about in the first Jim Williams book. I have two of these that look like they were used by the JPL Deep Space Network. I have seen articles where these were the key pieces used to track the Voyager probes out past Pluto. The doppler frequency shift communicated relative speed of the probe and the cumulative phase shift measured distance. A nice piece of space history.Note the Digiphase spelling difference between the front label and the back name tag.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 02:28:58 am
content: You guys have some really Cool Stuff.I'll have to look for some more around here.

author: joeqsmith
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 03:00:45 am
content: Quote from: chuckb on October 16, 2015, 02:20:19 amEver try to run it?

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 03:21:13 am
content: I have a Power Designs 5015A from General Dynamics Astronautic Division (GIIIIIIIID) that was last calibrated in 1969. The front aluminum faceplate and the cal sticker are still there and in excellent shape. The cal sticker is a pretty nifty nylon mesh.

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 03:23:07 am
content: Here are pics of the Bendix HP 3440A I mentioned in the thread that spawned this one. I purchased this and its sibling this past August from Apex Electronics in the Los Angeles, California area. They were sitting in the outside fenced in area, 'protected' by virtue of resting inside a desktop rack unit. (As a New Englander used to frequent rain, snow and ice, seeing all this electronic stuff outside and exposed to the elements seems like insanity, but then again, I suppose just north of LA the elements are mostly sun, heat and more sun. Oh, and dust, too. Lots of dust.) For all their exposure, they're in remarkably good shape and pretty clean inside, though I've no idea how long they may have been there. There was plenty of dust on them, so my guess is that it was for a while.The embossed metal tags were doubtless added quite some time after they had been purchased, since a 3490 digital meter (introduced by HP in 1973) that I bought on the same trip has a similar sticker with a lower number than the ones on the 3440As. The thing I found to be pretty cool was the asset tag on the back of the meter that showed it had been purchased 50 years to the month earlier than when I got it. It's in the queue for restoration, and the electrolytics inside are no doubt dry as a bone. Based on the serial number, the meter appears to have been manufactured in late 1964.-Pat

author: chuckb
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 03:25:44 am
content: It still runs fine! It needs a 50MHz external reference. So I have to dedicate a second synthesizers if I want to run it. The frequency is accurate to the limits of my lab, 12 digits. It will have a place of honor in my new workshop.Even the Part Number matches this JPL article"...The previous report describes the prototype Synthesizer Controller design features in control and monitor of a DanaModel 7010-S-241 Frequency Synthesizer. Subsequently, six production controllers have been installed in the 64-meter and34-meter subnet (six stations) exciter to support the Voyager Project Saturn Encounter beginning in November 1980..."

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 04:34:28 am
content: Quote from: AF6LJ on October 16, 2015, 12:29:38 amHi If you ever want to sell it, let me know. Roger

author: babysitter
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 08:24:24 am
content: From that other thread about my VS-111R - the stylish NASA worm!

author: Moshly
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 09:19:13 am
content: Here are some from my retro test bench.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 01:14:11 pm
content: Quote from: ez24 on October 16, 2015, 04:34:28 amIt is one of those things that gets used once a year, when you need it, you are glad you have it.EDIT;I need to stop typing before that first cup of coffee in the morning.

author: dom0
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 01:22:25 pm
content: Besides the usual stuff (some US military stickers etc.) I have a 3400A, the earliest version (with neon bulbs as large as an eyeball!) with engraved/paint-filled front panel, which was an HP asset. Another more recent 3400A was a Systron Donner asset. But most interesting is certainly this item:A Tek 7A26without a serial number.

author: MadTux
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 01:37:16 pm
content: Maybe someone wiped that sticker with some acetone or IPA. Happened to me once, used some paper tissues soaked in acetone to clean sticker residues on some newly purchased Tek plugins and accidentally erased its serial. Opps

author: G0HZU
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 02:22:45 pm
content: These aren't really stickers as such but I've got some original 1950s Tektronix scope probe tag/tickets in my garage. IIRC these are cardboard tags with diagrams/info about how to compensate the probe. Presumably they would have been attached to the probes when my Tek 585 scope was new. The original owner of the scope stored the tags in the back of the little user manual that came with the scope and they must have been there for >55 years? This old scope is stored somewhere in the back of my garage but the tags will still be there with the manual.

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 07:29:05 pm
content: This one's not mine, but a recently ended eBay auction for a Power Designs 6050A with a Grumman asset tag on it.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 07:46:00 pm
content: The other labels are rather poorly preserved, but the interesting ones are present:http://seventransistorlabs.com/Images/Gaussian_Noise1.jpg

author: ez24
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 08:07:30 pm
content: Quote from: bitseeker on October 16, 2015, 07:29:05 pmI was bidding on this because of the Grumman tag -

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 08:39:07 pm
content: Quote from: ez24 on October 16, 2015, 08:07:30 pmAnd whoever won it is as likely as not to peel it off.-Pat

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 09:44:59 pm
content: Another item from the top shelf this time.Excuse the mess I have been unloading my backpack from a trip up to the repeater site yesterday.

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 09:47:54 pm
content: Nice - an early 1960 model! Gotta love HP build quality!-Pat

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 09:51:44 pm
content: Quote from: Cubdriver on October 16, 2015, 09:47:54 pmI love the HP Gray Iron.Good gear, and that one still works well and is reasonably accurate.

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 11:24:35 pm
content: Quote from: AF6LJ on October 16, 2015, 09:51:44 pmA closer look at your photo, and it just clicked - I just got one of those a few weeks ago when I helped clean out the basement of a silent key. I was permitted to pick through the remains of his shop, and encouraged take anything because whatever was left was all going into a dumpster. I snagged several trips worth of stuff, a 412A being among the haul. Mine's younger by a few years than yours - looks like mid '66 and is in the smoother finished grey cabinet. It too is awaiting attention. I need to find a good supply of free time somewhere!!-Pat

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 11:33:08 pm
content: Quote from: ez24 on October 16, 2015, 08:07:30 pmGood thing I didn't take it from you, then.

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 11:36:05 pm
content: Quote from: Cubdriver on October 16, 2015, 11:24:35 pmThanks for saving it and others from the landfill.Most people have no idea how good and reliable this gear is from the sixites and before.Thank you for saving it.

author: ocw
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2015, 12:14:39 am
content: There are classic labels like those on old Meggers.But, how about the one that I removed from a RF generator which had a +72 dBm output as it was about to be trashed?

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 17, 2015, 12:33:15 am
content: Quote from: AF6LJ on October 16, 2015, 11:36:05 pmI'm serious pack rat. I'd be unable to sleep at night if it had gone and I knew.Part of the haul:-Pat

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2015, 03:35:35 am
content: Quote from: ocw on October 17, 2015, 12:14:39 amThat Continental Electronics logo is neat. Is it on a backing or in two pieces?

author: bitseeker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2015, 03:37:53 am
content: Quote from: Cubdriver on October 17, 2015, 12:33:15 amThat's a lot of nice goodies you got, Pat! Hope you get time to bring them all back to live.

author: ocw
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2015, 04:22:45 am
content: The Continental Electronics emblems are in two pieces, mounting via three pins for each--perfect for my front fender...

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 17, 2015, 05:07:18 am
content: Quote from: bitseeker on October 17, 2015, 03:37:53 amMe too. I've already gotten an operating/service manual for the HP 608As, have one coming for the HP 333A, and am on the lookout for ones for the HP 608D & E (or E & F; not in the picture because they were still in the Jeep at that point and I don't remember exactly which letter suffixes they were off the top of my head). Apparently the guy had a summer place up in NH, so he had two of some things like those particular boat anchors. He eventually consolidated to his CT home as he was getting too old to go up north with any regularity. From what I was told by his son (and confirmed by the 30 years worth of CQ and QSL magazines, along with all the gear) he was a very avid Ham, and had worked for all sorts of technical companies and organizations down through the years. He passed away about ten years ago and his widow just recently died, so the son was up from his home in Florida to clean things up and settle the estate. The ARRL got first dibs on things, followed by the vintage radio museum I volunteer at, and then I got to go through what was left. It's as dirty as it is because it's by and large been undisturbed in the basement and attic of his home from when he passed until now. His widow apparently sold some of his Ham gear around the time he died, and then the rest just sat. I wish I'd met him; from what he left behind he was a fascinating character!-Pat

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2015, 02:36:50 pm
content: Quote from: ocw on October 17, 2015, 12:14:39 amI have one of those meggers, it is complete with a carrying case made from brass sheet. I used to have a 1923 model megger which is only a year or two after the patent, inside was a calibration sheet hand written in pencil and signed, it was not even labled megger but Evershed & Vignoles and the case was made of wood, I sold it recently.i do however have this ohm meter by Evershed & Vignoles.

author: Swainster
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 20, 2023, 02:42:01 pm
content: Ok, intentional thread necromancy here, but surely, after 8 years there must be some more interesting equipment stickers to share?Anyway, here is my contribution...Boeing (apologies, need to give this one a clean)LockheedTektronix asset label on a Keithley, pre DanaherRockwell InternationalLucent