Just saw this on Biggest Hoarders - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: kolbep
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2013, 09:18:02 pm
content: They cleared out 2 rooms in this guys house, and filled a warehouse with his stuff. Including 1000 pianola rolls, and check out all the scopes that they eventually got him to agree to auction off.

author: Nermash
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2013, 09:24:55 pm
content: That is not hoarding, that is well equipped lab with multiple scopes for multiple simultaneous projects

author: PaulAm
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2013, 09:59:42 pm
content: Looks normal to me

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2013, 10:50:18 pm
content: He needs one scope for each of his cats.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2013, 10:57:01 pm
content: Did this man by any chance live anywhere in Australia.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 02, 2013, 11:39:30 pm
content: Any way to watch this online?

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2013, 12:05:31 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on November 02, 2013, 11:39:30 pmYouTube has full episodes, you may find it there.Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2013, 12:16:51 am
content: Got it:

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2013, 04:08:00 am
content: Quote from: G7PSK on November 02, 2013, 10:57:01 pmWhy? You still have some room left in your house?

author: Vgkid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2013, 04:25:40 am
content: He sounds like James May.

author: FoXX
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2013, 03:06:11 pm
content: Thanks for the link ntnicoHoarding like that must be a real disease.. Poor man

author: M0BSW
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2013, 03:19:36 pm
content: Don't you give my wife ideas about getting rid of my equipment

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2013, 05:04:50 pm
content: Was looking at all those TEK scopes............

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 03, 2013, 11:44:53 pm
content: Did they really sold those, or straight to the trash can?Some times, hoarders have amazing collections of rare stuff, there goes the tv show, and all went to trash..

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2013, 12:32:11 am
content: Now I would attend that auction...

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 04, 2013, 09:34:02 pm
content: Its a bunch of old crap. I consider myself a 'stopped before it was too late' hoarder. A lot of stuff which may seem useful when collected just ends up gathering dust and getting old.

author: Vgkid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 04:02:20 am
content: One thing I noticed about the scope was that they almost all had a sticky note on the screen. As I have figured out that usually means a fault of some sort.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 04:07:55 am
content: Quote from: senso on November 03, 2013, 11:44:53 pmBecause it was so much better sitting untouched and unseen in some nutty dude's hoard.

author: Hypernova
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 04:54:56 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on November 03, 2013, 12:16:51 am*Opens decade old fridge*"What was in that jug!?""I don't know but thats's a perfectly good jug."I respect the guy's scope collection but damn...

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 05:27:16 am
content: food museum? sanity check

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 08:38:27 am
content: Excuse me, I have a spare Tek sitting on a shelf that I need to plug in, power up and actually use for something...

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 06:20:18 pm
content: Me too.......

author: mamalala
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 08:32:05 pm
content: Quote from: nctnico on November 04, 2013, 09:34:02 pmI love to get stuff. However, i also have a rule: whatever i have not touched for a year, it goes straight into the trash bin, if no one else wants to have it. After all, not using it for a year means that i'm unlikely to have a need for it in the next years to come. And if, then i can get another one any time. Sure, with some old, fine equipment that might not be so easy, since those units simply will die some day or another, and thus get rare, but they are nothing that could not be replaced by more modern units either.But especially for parts and similar stuff, i usually simply throw away things after a year if no one else wants them. Heck, how many nice enclosures i had over the years, from old telco equipment and the likes. Sturdy, well made, etc. But no point in keeping them if there is no use for them. I already have enough stuff as it is. But i can somewhat understand folks who hoard such things. I'm rather close to that border myself sometimes.Greetings,Chris

author: mamalala
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 08:33:35 pm
content: Quote from: AndyC_772 on November 05, 2013, 08:38:27 amWhat can it do, and is it working? Want to trade for a half-working (i.e. only cannel teo) HP54201D (with the logic pods, yay!)?Greetings,Chris

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 08:52:13 pm
content: Quote from: Vgkid on November 05, 2013, 04:02:20 amThey appeared to be different lot numbers, as if he got them at an auction and never used them. He reminded me of a grand uncle on my fathers side. Another engineer who never married, he spent is time collecting, restoring and building clocks and watches. I remember as a child he had a pocket watch with a glass back displaying the working, which he built himself. I never saw the inside of his house, but I head stories...

author: AndyC_772
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 09:07:41 pm
content: Quote from: mamalala on November 05, 2013, 08:33:35 pmIt's a fully working TDS754D with a set of four 500 MHz P6139A probes. Seems a shame to leave it unused, but it takes up rather a lot of desk space, and keeps my lab warm.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 09:13:04 pm
content: That is a very nice scope. It still should fetch a reasonable amount of money on Ebay.

author: mamalala
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 05, 2013, 10:29:26 pm
content: Quote from: AndyC_772 on November 05, 2013, 09:07:41 pmIn that case i would throw in a HP 5345A to the trade for good meassure, not wanting you to freeze in your lab. And a FE-5680A Rubidium osc as a hand warmer as well (you could then use the 54501 to distribute the warm air through the lab) ;-DAh well, i guess i just have to wait until i get a decent working digital scope again. The one remaining channel of the 54501 just doesn't cut it anymore...Greetings,Chris