On Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 4:54:49 PM UTC-6, tub...@myshop.com wrote:   
   > What company made the best vintage Test Equipment?   
   >   
   > My personal opinion is Eico. Some Heathkit was not bad too.   
   > Another favorite, is Paco, but that is only based on one piece of test   
   > gear, which is an signal tracer. Paco stuff is rare and hard to find.   
   >   
   > That Paco tracer is very similar to an Eico tracer. So much similar, I   
   > kind of wonder if the same company made it????   
   >   
   > I mostly collect EICO test equipment though. Back in the day, they had   
   > the biggest variety and made very sturdy and reliable gear. Amazingly,   
   > most of that stuff still works when I buy it. Aside from replacing   
   > line cords quite often, I recap it, spray contacts and pots, and use it.   
   >   
   > Of course many of these devices did not have Capacitors. They had   
   > Condensers, and those never went bad......    
   >   
   > So, the next time someone tells you to recap a piece of vintage   
   > electronics, check the schematic, and I'll bet at least half of them   
   > use the word "Condenser". So, of course you have to mess with the   
   > person who asked if you changed the caps, and tell them there are   
   > none. That ought to start a "war of words".... :)   
   >   
   > Anyhow, what are your favorite vintage testers?   
   > (I am only referring to tube based testers)   
   >   
   > By the way, I do almost all my repairs using that old test gear. My   
   > only modern test gear is a Sencore scope, a frequency counter, and a   
   > few multimeters.   
   >   
   > One question I have never been able to answer, is why many Eico testers   
   > came with both blue and silver faces? (Same model numbers). Does anyone   
   > know? I have often wondered if the KIT version was one color and the   
   > FINISHED ones were the other color? (Just a guess).   
      
   Geez, he writes a LOT like Oldstuff....... WITH LOTS OF CAPS and asking lots   
   of INANE QUESTIONS..... Maybe it's time to repost the shoelaces post....   
      
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