Look what I picked up for 5 bucks.

[lostcreekranch]

That rings a faint bell so it could have been Allie Hall indeed. I don't remember what color it was but I do remember challenging my way though the basic course because the instructor got sick and tired of me calling him on everything. They stuck me in an advance paced course for the AFSC specific stuff. I guess they wanted me gone from there and I wanted to be gone so it was a win/win.

Don't remember it being pink but, it was Allee Hall. I went thru the accelerated courses too. Then onto Goodfellow, then thru several survival schools. I was airborne.

 

[Msamt]

Takes me right back to basic electricty and electronics school in the navy. Staple of troubleshooting almost every thing I ever worked on.

 

[dickfoster]

Don't remember it being pink but, it was Allee Hall. I went thru the accelerated courses too. Then onto Goodfellow, then thru several survival schools. I was airborne.

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So what specialtie. I see they do some intelligence training and even geospatial today. The only survival I got was jungle survival at Clark in the PI.
I was in ground radio but ended up loaned out to DMA (Defence Mapping Agency) doing what is geospatial today. First to use satellites for geodetics. DMA is NGA today.

One thing, you just never knew what you'd do or where you'd wind up but it was always interesting if not predictable.

 

[OkieDave]

You got me thinking about the old micronta, so dug it out and found out it is a model 210 and was built in korea. Doubt it was built by Simpson after all. it did come with a mirrored scale though.
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I had the successor model to that meter as a kid. Looked almost identical, except the knob was recessed instead of on top of the faceplate.

 

[Ford850]

Picked up this old Simpson 260 at an Amateur Radio swap meet (Hamfest) a while back.. I had to clean it up, and put batteries and test leads on it. I have less than $10 bucks in it now I guess with those. It is from 1959, but all ranges seem to work. I thought it might come in handy, you can never have too many meters, and I was down to 1 analog meter. Sometimes a digital is better, sometimes and analog. Just depends on what you are doing. Digital's are best for accuracy but they suck trying to use them for tuning up things with a dynamic variable voltage.

Wow that was a great deal! My dad has an old 260, I think it is a series 6. He used it through most of his career as an electrician, and he's been retired for decades now. He needs new leads on his, since it takes him more time to get the things to work than it does to test something. Do you have a good source for those?

 

[k0ua]

Wow that was a great deal! My dad has an old 260, I think it is a series 6. He used it through most of his career as an electrician, and he's been retired for decades now. He needs new leads on his, since it takes him more time to get the things to work than it does to test something. Do you have a good source for those?

I bought mine off of Amazon. They are not rubber like the original but the cheapie ones I bought work OK and got the old meter back into service. Here is link.

Amazon.com: Elenco Electronics TL-4 Electronic Test Lead Set, 36-Inch: Home Improvement