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Pulled over at a Garage Sale coming home from my 2nd Vaccine Shot today:
Non-working Fluke Multi-meter – $1
New Battery – $1
Finding out it works… Priceless.
Nice! And was maintained looking at the calibration stickers.
Sweet! Nice find Barry. Fluke has always been the Mercedes-Benz of meters.
While the topic of “sales finds” is up . . . I was at an estate sale yesterday morning trying to snipe a 1976 Guild D35NT and found this . . . . .
And yes, that is a $4 price tag on it. Snagged it! Zero corrosion in the battery compartment. Filled it with 8 ‘AA’ batteries and it fired right up – only the right side of the headphones don’t work. Checked with a fresh pair of headphones and it’s PERFECT! Sounds great thru an amp too. Score!
Oh, I got the Guild too. Has a few minor dings on the back of the neck, a tiny bit of buckle-rash on the back, and a some finish-checking on the front. Solid mahogany with absolutely no cracks in the wood anywhere. All the binding is perfectly sound.
It was a good day. Went back an hour ago and found a few electronics goodies. Turns out the estate is from a fellow who was into ham radio and color TV electronics. Found a boat-load of germanium diodes and oddly enough, there were absolutely no germanium transistors anywhere in his stash. But the capacitance-decade-box (with the original manual) for $3 was another good find today. And a Radio Shack Reverb/Delay Effect for microphone for $5 (also with service & user manuals) – I got it just to see how they conducted the reverb/delay circuitry. I suspect some juicy BBD chips. I’ll get a chance to look into it this weekend. Several small boxes of chips and and other assorted electronics components to sort thru.
I wish they had stuff like that at the garage and estate sales around where I live. Mostly old furniture, clothes and other junk like that as most people moved to SW FL to retire and got rid of their old electronics and instruments before downsizing and moving.
I did score a mint, unused Epiphone Tony Iommi SG Custom with documentation and everything still covered by plastic protectors in an auction for $400 + 10% auctioneers fee. Way better than $850 new for the same thing (new same model guitar) if you could find one. I suspect the auctioneer fee was charged to both buyer and seller – probably standard 20% to seller, but it was still a good deal to me. Haven’t found anything else like that, though.
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