5 Jun
2011
5 Jun
'11
11:44 a.m.
On 2011 Jun 4, at 5:00 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 6/4/11 7:57 PM, Charles Dickman wrote:
We should keep in mind the source of this stuff: a high-school lab.
Sure, there's always a possibility there are some old/valuable pieces
in there that perhaps were donated to the high school some time ago,
but given the situation it's more likely to be lower-end stuff for
student/course use from the 70's-or-so and not of much value. I
wouldn't anticipate much, either in dollars as the seller or in
equipment as a collector.
The local high school physics teacher was told to
clean out the lab of
all the "old junk." She has a bunch of meters that she is supposed to
dump, but she wanted to know if there was any market for "antique"
meters. I have not seen them, but the way she describes them they are
single function meters (galvanometers, AC voltmeter, DC voltmeter,
etc.) in slope from cases with binding screw terminals on top. She
thought the cases were Bakelite.
Is there any value to such things? Is there an on-line market that
might let me determine a value, if any? I know she is thinking that if
it is worth anything she can use the proceeds to buy supplies.
There is a gigantic collectors' market for this type of equipment.
I have a sizable collection of it myself. Some of it goes for very
high dollars, especially Leeds Northrup and Central Scientific
equipment.