Re: [Phys-L] Old Lab Equipment

[bernard cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Unless you have a mems well calibrated p. gauge, you should keep the Hg barometer.  I’ve been wanting one for some time.    Or other absolute pressure gauge, e.g. Wallace and Tiernan.  

The Naval Academy broke out their supply of sextants (octents?) and reopend a class.  They suddenly realized (as I have for years) that the sattelires are not totally reliable, espedcially, as the twerp is instituting space warfare.  

The sexatant, how much do you want?    


bc     Has a crude life boat one (composition board not brass).  


p.s.   Glassware:  have you chequed w/ the Chem dept.  Or are they partially evacuated, e.g  pulse tube, CRTs,  A field emission X-ray tube, etc.  {My old HS physics had one..  I still have the negative of the mechanical pencil X-ray.  The film was ordinary Pan F.  (CA.  1954)}


> On 2019/Dec/06, at 05:54, Folkerts, Timothy J <FolkertsT@bartonccc.edu> wrote:
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> We are doing some sorting and moving in our lab storage area, and of course there is a lot of "vintage" equipment that is rarely or never used anymore.  Things like
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> *         1990's era computer interfaces & lab sensors
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> *         1943 sextant
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> *         Mercury barometer
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> *         Fancy glassware of unknown purposes
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> I am hoping to figure out what the unknown equipment is, and then figure out a good fate for it.  I hate to throw things out if 1) I can get some extra money for my budge or 2) someone else might be able to use it or 3) I might figure out what the heck it is and use it in the future.   Is there a good place (besides google) to try to ID equipment?  Is there a good place (besides ebay) to try to sell it?  Is there a good place (besides Phys-L) to say "hey I have 6 old Vernier ULI interfaces - would someone like them?"
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