I think I found a gold mine

[tcoil]

Hi fella's. I stumbled on to a Gold mine so to speak. I have a friend (Matt) that called me and said "I have a guy I work with that has some stuff you might be interested in. He wants to sell it". I Said "what kind of stuff?" He wasn't sure but  assured me I would be interested. Being the electrical novice that I am I drove about an hour and met Matt at the sellers house. First he shows me 3 radio cabinets from the 30's and 40's a little banged not bad for 70 yrs old. Then He pulls out all this stuff, boxes and boxes of test equipment (mostly heath kits from early to mid 70's). 2 ossicilliscopes, Hi-voltage supplies, a Box of pots mostly military grade, resistors, buttons, knobs, switches just all kind of stuff. By now I was drooling, "How much?" I asked?.He goes "How much you got"? I got $200 cash, I said. He said "can you fit it all in your van". I have a rec van with a bed in the back so I wasn't sure if I could, but I said I could anyway. So I loaded up the van and it was tight but I got it all in there. I couldn't wait to get home and got through all the cool vintage stuff I got. As I was about to leave he says "Oh yea hold on I forgot something. We went back into the garage and he pulls out a box of vintage tubes, mostly new in box 12ax7,au7,at7, 6l6, 6v6, 5y3,5ur4, el84, 7025, 6550, Mullard, RCA, Raytheon, Amperex. including s bunch of jan tubes. I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Here is a pic of some of the stuff. Being a novice I have no clue how or if I need any of this stuff to build and repair tube amps. So far I have been ok with a volt meter  and the ocassional help from the forum. Does anybody have any advise or knowledge regarding these three items. from left to right  -Heathkit's  electronic switcher  io-22, capacitor checker  it-28 and signal tracer it-12. I have 5 of the signal tracers.2 work 3 do not.

Thanks

Tcoil

[PRR]

The signal tracer and cap-checker have OBVIOUS use in gitar-amp tinkering.

> 2 work 3 do not

Should be easy to repair. If you don't need five sig-traces, I bet others here would give them a good home.

> "electronic switcher  io-22"

uh, Electronic Switch ID-22, right?

It adds dual-trace function to a single-trace oscilloscope.

[tcoil]

Cool, Your right it is the id-22. I'll keep the cap checker and signal tracer. Cool stuff for my lab. No clue how to use the cap checker..have to find a book.  I also have an impedence bridge (IB-28). again no clue. I have 2 cap  checkers. I don't think I'll need the switch. I'll put one of them up on the for sale board. Maybe someone is interested.

I can see how the tracer is going to make diagnosing repairs a little easier. 

[eleventeen]

Sounds like you duplicated the "garage of doom" deal I did with an older fella about 12 blocks from me. The scope switch is....ehhh, kind of a source for 12AU7s.

I ultimately had to haul 8 Ford Explorer-loads worth of crap to achieve the result of emptying the garage of doom. I had to take lots of World War 2 vintage radios which I had little interest in. A day or two before I was going to haul them to the ewaste thingy, I had the idea of trying to find a radio museum, and I found the mother lode radio museum, http://radioblvd.com/ Turned out I had 4 or 5 of his top ten things and I traded them for a nice Gm Hickok 6000 tube tester and a nice hp power supply. He probably got the better end of the deal. but he also drove down from Reno Nevada to Lafayette, CA which saved me a lot of work. I gave him tons of parts which would never have been useful for me. He actually wrote up our deal as "the big trade" http://radioblvd.com/art13.htm (about 4 pages down) and got ALL of the radios I traded him working! Which truly amazed me because some were in quite rough shape. I was very happy to see the radio stuff go to someone who appreciated it.

I ended up selling lots of tubes and radios on ebay. I got maybe 2 dozen 6L6s out of the deal, unfortunately they were forties vintage "GA"s and "G"s and not all that much useful audio stuff. But I quintupled what I paid for the garage and it ended up well. Lucky it was only about 12 blocks away from my home.

[stratele52]

tcoil , I have the same heatkit capacitor tester , the IT 28 . It is a great tester and very useful . I built it in '70. I have the user book and I can scan it and send to your e-mail adress

[tcoil]

Lot of good vintage parts in the switch I might gut it and use the case for another project.

Wow, that would be so cool to have a manual for the checker. My email is Myopicvoid@comcast.net. I'll look forward to getting the manual. thanks     

[eleventeen]

Heath IT-28 schematic available here....probably not the whole manual

http://www.vintage-radio.info/heathkit/

GREAT site for old Heath stuff.

[stingray_65]

LOL this is too wierd!

This morning I just picked up a Heathkit IT12 works great eye is bright and a Mullard 12AX& that tests 75% good on my Eico 666

A knight 620 VTVM

Eico 147 signal tracer

2 different RCA VTVM's one is high voltage and has a probe in a original box that looks new

Knight kg-650 RF signal generator

and what looks like 2 or 3 unassembled heathkit kits (Hybrid phone line patch?) (VTVM ef-1?)

And a box of old probes with old style microphone plugs

[tcoil]

Christmas in July

[stratele52]

tcoil ,sorry I did not receive your answer from the forum. Maybe one of my set up is not check for receiving e-mail ? I 'll scacnthe book tomorrow and I'll send to you.

About the answer from eleventeen , this is only the shematic of the IT-28

[stratele52]

tcoil , look at that , a good information about heatkit capacitor testers.
I'll send you scan soon

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/funwithtubes/Restore_cap.html

[stratele52]

ticoil I just send you an e-mail but your adress doesn't work;  What is wrong ?

Adresse du destinataire : Myopicvoid@comcast.net
 Raison : Server rejected MAIL FROM address.
 Code de diagnostic : smtp;552 5.2.3 message size exceeds fixed maximum message size
 Système distant : dns;mx1.comcast.net (TCP|10.23.32.72|38272|76.96.62.116|25) (imta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net comcast ESMTP server ready)

[sluckey]

message size exceeds fixed maximum message size

Maybe your attachment exceeded a file size limit. Try sending a simple text only message before sending an attachment. If that works, then decrease the file size of your attachment.

[stratele52]

Thank Sluckey I'll try it late afternoon

[stratele52]

I should do a newer scan. This one a PDF and an can't separate it

[sluckey]

What's the file size? I use comcast.net and don't have trouble with huge attachments. I clean up my mail regularly though.

[stratele52]

The file was 21.2 Meg. Very big.

But now I just send one page / one e-mail = 14 e-mail . Ticoil should have it.

[tcoil]

Strattele, I got all the pages, thanks.  When  I send big files I got to yousendit.com.

[jjasilli]

I too have gotten into vintage test equipment.  Needs rebuilds & distracts from amp building, but still a great experience.  I now have 4 Heathkit VTVM's monitoring plate & screen voltages while DVM's monitor bias, etc.  Some old meters need a friendly tap once in a while to read correctly.  Must be a '50's thing in homage to the Fonz!  

[stratele52]

Tank's for the adress of yousendit.com. But I never send big file often to pay for that.

[kagliostro]

You can get a FREE account at MediaFire

http://www.mediafire.com/

there you can upload also big files and share the link for the download 

Kagliostro

[stratele52]

Thank's Kagliostro

[tcoil]

Found  more box's. Heathkit ig 72 audio generator, a Capacitor sub box w/400v caps, resistor sub box w 1/2 watt carbon comp rsistors, 2 more signal tracers, an osciliscope (not working) (turns on but no line on crt), heathkit impedence bridge, 3 more vom's, tv alignment generator. And last but not least a tv degaussing tool. Whew! And there is anothers box or two. If anybody's interested in some of this stuff, drop a reply. I'm going to be putting stuff up on ebay. I'm tcoil on ebay same as here.