Old equipment repository

posted Jan 1st 2010 11:00am by Mike Szczys
filed under: tool hacks

[Swake] tipped us off about a collection of old equipment. The site is packed full of various hardware that was used for electrical and chemical testing, metering, and experimentation. You could use this to identify the dinosaurs found in backrooms of college science departments, or draw inspiration from it. The next time you’re laying out a panel, or working on a steampunk-ish project go to the source to achieve that vintage look. Some of these remind us of the control panel on [Steve Roberts'] bicycle.

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tagged: steampunk, test equipment, vintage

6 Responses to Old equipment repository

jimmx says:

January 1, 2010 at 11:26 am

dude this site is great!
thanx!

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fabi280 says:

January 1, 2010 at 3:31 pm

Hehe, we are still using some of these things at school :D

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GCL says:

January 1, 2010 at 9:24 pm

OMG!
I actually used that Transistor testing marvel shown on your screen.

Tek developed a real mainstay. As it happens Tek makes some of the best o-scopes on the planet. Agilent however sells the best programming language on test gear….

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Munden says:

January 2, 2010 at 8:42 am

Nice. They even made the website look vintage.

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Chambers says:

January 2, 2010 at 3:43 pm

In my city we have The American Museum of Radio and Electricity. It’s a rad place, and a Low power radio station KMRE lots of good oldies.
http://www.amre.us/ check it out!

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TMG Test Equipment says:

February 11, 2010 at 9:55 pm

Plenty of the vintage test gear here for the collectors. Over 20,000 test equipment items in stock dating back pre-1950s.

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