[Noisebridge-discuss] possible electronic equipment donation from the Exploratorium

[Walter Funk]

Sounds good. I spend part of my day cosmetically restoring old HP and other test equipment, also know how/where to find difficult parts if needed.  Some of the 'junk' may have parts useful for the other units too, especially with the HP stuff.

My bosses have lots of experience, so I can ask them questions and get helpful answers.

If you decide to trek, I have Fridays off, weekends too.

~Walter (currently surrounded by about 10,000 pieces of test equipment)

--- On Thu, 10/8/09, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:

> From: Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] possible electronic equipment donation from the Exploratorium
> To: "Walter Funk" <marybraindoe at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "<noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>" <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 5:04 PM
> Awesome all.  From the replies
> I've received on & off list, I've told
> the guy, yes, we want it.  (Did you notice they even
> said they'd
> deliver?)  I expect the bulk is of sufficiently high
> quality that
> there's likely to be very little we can't use, and of that,
> we won't
> have any difficulty... disposing of... garbage...
> 
> So I'm now just waiting for him to get back to me with What
> and When.
> Unless someone REALLY WANTS to trek out there and sort, we
> might as well
> let them bring it to us, and sort here.
> 
> Rachel
> 
> Walter Funk wrote:
> > Hey Folks,
> > 
> >     As I work for a company that
> sells used test equipment, including a lot of HP stuff, I'd
> be willing to help with the sorting and such. I'm sorting
> through this stuff all the time anyhow, and would have ideas
> about what certain items may need to get em' going.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Walter
> > 
> > --- On Thu, 10/8/09, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>
> >> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] possible electronic
> equipment donation from the Exploratorium
> >> To: "<noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>"
> <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> >> Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 11:36 AM
> >> I've been contacted by an
> >> Exploratorium person who says,
> >>
> >> ---
> >> We're cleaning out a lot of our storage and the
> electronics
> >> lab here at
> >> the Explo, and we've got a lot of gear that is
> either very
> >> esoteric, not
> >> germane, in need of minor repair, or just been
> updated.
> >> Most of it is
> >> serviceable, immediately useable, or has still
> good
> >> components.  I think
> >> some of it might be useful or hackable at
> Noisebridge.
> >>
> >> Types of gear include bench power supplies,
> variacs,
> >> oscilloscopes,
> >> frequency counters, vintage multimeters, function
> >> generators, frequency
> >> vector meters, etc.  A lot of it was donated
> by
> >> HP/Agilent. We'll be
> >> doing a walkthru of the components this week, and
> will have
> >> a full list
> >> after that.
> >>
> >> If Noisebridge is interested, we can even deliver.
> No
> >> promises about
> >> exactly what gets surplussed, but that's probably
> a pretty
> >> good idea of
> >> what.  If someone wanted to come up here
> beforehand
> >> and vet what goes
> >> before we deliver, that would be fine too.
> >> ---
> >>
> >> If it was a few things I'd just have said, yes,
> bring it
> >> over, thanks!
> >> But it seems like a lot so I figured I'd run it by
> the
> >> list.  I'm
> >> willing to go do the sorting & choosing but
> I'll need
> >> some assistance
> >> from someone with a better sense of what would be
> Useful to
> >> us.
> >>
> >> Yay the Exploratorium!
> >>
> >> Rachel
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> > 
> > 
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