Kind of sad (warning...abused scope pictures, not suitable for children) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: KTP
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 13, 2012, 09:34:06 pm
content: I doing my usual looking around at auctions for Synrad lasers (didn't find any) and saw this 6Ghz Agilent oscilloscope in a ongoing government auction:http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?auctionId=5560865&convertTo=USDlook at that poor thing! Sitting on a friggen wooden pallet like a piece of scrap metal. Our government needs more budget cuts if this is the way they treat equipment like this!

author: bullet308
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 13, 2012, 09:54:48 pm
content: Hey, the acquisition cost was oly $64,000. They will easily recoup 1/1000 of that at auction in that condition...

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 13, 2012, 10:46:17 pm
content: They've already got 1/32 of the price back.What government organisation would use such a powerful scope? NASA? Secret CIA divis #*&@NO CARRIER?

author: bullet308
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2012, 12:53:07 am
content: Nah. Just USAF/Tinker AFB. Big AF logistics center and AWACS base.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 14, 2012, 01:19:44 am
content: Quote from: bullet308 on August 14, 2012, 12:53:07 amSo that would be their entry level scope then, for the apprentices, right?Dave.

author: nanofrog
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2012, 03:20:17 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on August 14, 2012, 01:19:44 amExactly.They have to spend all that budget money somewhere....

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2012, 10:31:36 am
content: Government liquidation. Is that not the best idea since sliced bread.

author: bullet308
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2012, 01:11:53 pm
content: Used to be that each DRMO (Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service) facility had its own auctions, which limited the number of participants and kept prices lower for resellers (the Good Ole' Days, as recalled by surplus vendors). As most DRMOs are collocated with military bases, physical access became a lot more difficult after 9/11 and the military gave the contract to run the auctions to Government Liquidation, which also disposes of all the civilian federal surplus materials and that of several state governments as well, IIRC.Its pretty neat, but not that easy a system to navigate. It certainly is nothing like eBay...As Fort Jackson SC is the home of a lot of wheeled vehicle maintenance activity for the Army and their DRMO disposes of a lot of trucks, I have toyed with the idea of getting a 2.5 or 5-ton truck to play with...

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2012, 06:26:16 pm
content: I made a mistake one day in stores and entered a wrong number in a query. Instead of the usual error, up popped a valid number, showing a stock of 2 Tek 2226 Scopes. Asked the nice lady at stores if she was able to order, and she looked, said yes, and placed the order. 2 weeks later the parcel arrived, and I got 2 brand new scopes for the facility, folled a month later by a call asking for them back......... They got told that if they had not placed a hold in the stores system then tough luck, go get your own.