I spent the evening having a chat and look at old equipment for sale at the ARNSW clubhouse:

http://www.arnsw.org.au/html/page_disposals.html

I was only after one bit of equipment, but I went a bit googly eyed and couldn’t resist getting some other cheap bits while I was there.

We have:

• Spiffy antique rack case
• HP 5372A frequency/ time interval counter (The only thing I was actually planning on buying)
• Three GPS disciplined oscillators
• HP GPIB programmable 50V/2A power supply
• Two rubidium atomic clock units (already passed one on to a friend)
• Old style display unit (predates 7-segments) that has individual bulbs and projectors per digit per number
• decade resistance box
• milk crate full of blank copper clad PCB material for making circuit boards

Not bad for an evening’s work. Now to paint and clean up the rack a bit…