On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:43:09 +0000, Dave J. wrote:
I'm wondering if there's anyone here, local(ish) to me, who'd be
interested in an Avo Valve Characteristic Meter. My Dad recently passed
away and I've inherited it, along with a beautiful CR100 ex-Navy comms
receiver.
I'll be keeping the radio as I've so many memories from childhood of
slowly (oh, so, so slowly!) trawling my way through the bands; [1] and
it does still rank as a pretty good receiver.
The tester on the other hand isn't really of much use to me. I'm
competent, after a fashion, with valve electronics but I've so little
clue on how to use it and almost no spare time.. My Dad, however, saw it
as indispensable kit for his restoration work.
I've checked up on eBay and it seems I could get a very reasonable price
if I were willing to go through the bother of figuring out shipping and
all that kerfuffle, but I'd much rather avoid the trouble. I'm willing
to accept slightly below what it's worth, or rather roughly what it's
worth, but with free shipping (ie delivery, by myself, in a car!). The
sticking point is finding someone within 70 or 80 miles who'd be
interested.
I'm based in Sheffield but regularly travel to N.Wales, so anywhere
close to the relevant motorways counts as accessible. Likewise pretty
much anywhere in Yorkshire.
[1] And of matching it to a homebrew interface card, bolted onto my
prized ZX81, running a homebrew RTTY/Morse translator! What a lovely
mixture of museum exhibits that would be, what a span of years; if I
could only find the relevant bits and have a go at resurrection :-)
Thanks for any input, sorry for the distracted ramblings ;¬)
Oh, and it's a Mark IV Avo.
If it's what we call a 'tube tester' over on this side of the pond, i.e.
a serviceman's that you stick a tube into and it tells you if the tube is
good, you may want to keep it around as a tool to keep the receiver alive.
If it's something fancy that you'd find in an engineering lab or similar,
then you want to trade it for the serviceman's tool.
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