On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:28:37 -0700, you wrote:
I was seeing a lot of recyclers on You Tube just scrapping out some Tektronix scopes for the gold, they were a 7000 and 2440 scopes. Saying the scopes couldn't be fixed, and this was in England or Europe. I don't think that these people know what scare parts the Tek made IC's and hybrids are. I was just crying my eyes out with him cutting the cables to get the boards out. He was just salivating over the gold on the Tek made ICs that he could deplate and get the cost of the gold . The parts are worth more us Technicians than the gold that is reclaimed. To bad you guys can't get more of these older scopes from these recyclers, to get these hard to get parts. Not only the Gold parts but the hard to get other parts like Transformers, Tek made resistors, ceramic strips, CRTS. Soon lots of these parts scopes will be scrapped. Hope you can save these, and let the recyclers know not junk them out, and let you know about them.
It is a rare "recycler" that recognizes the value of the equipment. In
fact, they really can't, otherwise they couldn't sell it/scrap
it/destroy it.
The only thing that "they" will respect is value (called $$$) which
means that if they can sell a scope/plugin for the value of the
materials (mostly gold, but also aluminum), then they have an excuse
to do so, but ONLY if the compensation for not scrapping the
plugin/scope compensates them for the extra effort needed to actually
sell it.
Packing, shipping, advertising, warranty (?), well.....
extra dollars.
It's basically a dollar driven situation, and you have to get in, if
possible, before the vultures land next to the scope and start pecking
for gold.
Harvey
