Aren't those capacitors?wow. i been in houses that looked like that and i cant imagine inventorying all that stuff. but I'd toss that bin of old batteries to start.
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tube from his home made x-ray machine
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pre-inductive timing light. you hook up the lead inline with the plug wire
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JinxAren't those capacitors?
oh snap, they are when i blew up the picture on my phone. save the whales! Where are our DX'rs? @KitCarlsonAren't those capacitors?
Im getting ready to do that. Also I seem to recall you can hire an auctioneer to empty and sell the "good stuff" i dont know if they clean the "junk" up...ugh, been there a few times. the wife's uncle and dad were both pack rats. had to get a semi to empty all the old records at her uncle's 3 apartments. filled 2 huge dumpsters with trash at her dad's place. part of the reason we both started tossing stuff at home instead of saving everything.
no, worked at a big film processing place for 40+ years maintaining and modifying the machinery.What was your Uncle a retired Air Force electronics man?
ya, us too. we've told the kids not to feel bad about tossing anything we leave.ugh, been there a few times...part of the reason we both started tossing stuff at home instead of saving everything.
boxes of them. he also made his own vacuum tubesWow did he have a lot of testing equipment or what! Caps, old ones, big'ns too.
Any tubes?
thanks. the stuff any of us like, we're keeping. the rest is charity, recycling or tossedNo one really knows what to keep and what to toss...
Good luck to you.
'Good/working' Tubes you can use in guitar amps are worth selling.no batteries, those are caps. he might of been a borderline hoarder, but i've been in hoarder's houses and his wasn't like those. as someone who likes to do a lot of their own crap, i can see a reason for pretty much everything he kept.
over the last 70 years he was into chemistry, optics (ground his own lenses), high speed photography (built a firing range in the crawl space under his parents house so he could have a dark place to photograph bullet impacts), electronics (i'll get the pics of some stuff he built later) and astronomy. there's an electronics place near by that also buys stuff. i'm just getting everything out and sorted first. no one else in the family is into most of this stuff. i'll go through the tools but there won't be much of those i'll keep. biggest problem is i need to make room for the lathe. i've already tossed a bigger pile than this
no, worked at a big film processing place for 40+ years maintaining and modifying the machinery.
ya, us too. we've told the kids not to feel bad about tossing anything we leave.
boxes of them. he also made his own vacuum tubes
thanks. the stuff any of us like, we're keeping. the rest is charity, recycling or tossed
yup, stereo and ham radio people too. that's why i'm trying to get all this to someplace it can be used.'Good/working' Tubes you can use in guitar amps are worth selling.
My sympathies. My grandfather passed in April and as a co-executive, I can completely related. I’ve not really worked on my dart in 2 monthsmy uncle passed away a few weeks ago and i'm spending all my free time cleaning his place out.
this is just the stuff, (so far), i'm either keeping or not trashing
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And that's always what happens.everyone, please don't turn this into something a MOD might mistake for a sales thread. just posting pics because i know people here enjoy looking at this stuff as much as i do.
I’d just put not for sale in the title and be done with it.And that's always what happens.