Ashton Brown
Apropos - I sold one of [the pair] to a person in Spain via eBay, many
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moons ago. Also sent a HP --> UK with no problems. 7D01 arrived OK via US parcel post. I could occasionally be a middleman: some wimps on eBay check the "US only" box. Thus if you just gotta have something from such a seller - perhaps I could tranship for you. My local post office is a few blocks away and tiny = no lines. You'd have to be aware of size/wt. limitations and apprise me of what to put on for customs, given your local conditions. (I have PayPal - not sure if that is Int'l yet, but it could work for paying seller while waiting for your funds..) Doubt this would be practical for say, a 519! or anything so massive as to virtually demand 'foam-in-place' to arrive safely, but I could repack smaller things - according to physics Laws. (This doesn't mean to be an ad - but, I have quite a few Teks too; from 2xx, 3xx 4xx - and 7xxx from pristine to.. 'needs ~ work'. Even Rb and a quartz freq std and a spare 7854!. No, not a resale bizness - though it sometimes comes close.. in swapping for the keepers. As I'll likely Not get to doing minor fixes on several I planned to, anytime soon : well, nuff said) I encountered my first Tek (514AD?) at LBL in '56. Amazing to be able now to acquire the best of the best, as I see the toy digital displays drawing pretty pictures.. sometimes divorced from er reality or, if you want near-Real: at $20K+ $US. {sheeesh} Built my ESR meter from 'Stralia via Canada.. but haven't yet let it attack those stealth-bad electrolytics.. in a couple 485s {sigh} It is a nice hack though and.. it actually does read ESR! (equivalent series resistance - too many TLAs in the world) Just a thought, Ashton (in N. California US) Craig Sawyers wrote: Title says it all ;-). I want just the plug-ins (no probesThese come up fairly often on eBay. Seem to go in the range $10 to $60 for |