What you got? Or do you know any decent websites that offer 2nd hand test kit?

Specifically I am after a defib analsyer, ECG simulator + ultrasound wattmeter....

I worked out it some short time ago.
For second hand test equipment I prefer:
http://www.dotmed.com/equipment/1/47/all/
http://www.medwow.com/used-clinical-engineering-medical-equipment/4.med

Also I bought patient simulator in not worth to mention, very poor known webpage: www.ebay.com

If You find some other precious places please let me know!
Regards,
M

Yes ... a nice looking selection of kit, but all in the United States. 110 volts working may be a problem. As could be shipment charges (and some vendors may only ship within the US).

And there again, there's always the question of missing accessories, repairs and, er ... calibration!

I have found that biomed test equipment pops up on eBay only rarely (and sometimes only when the seller doesn't realise what it is)!

@Mr_Peeps: I may be able to help you (see your PM's).

Although not specifically medical, here is another good source of pre-owned test equipment. Or, if you prefer, rental.

These are on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270686088591&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1156

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270686088590&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1156

For those without access to eBay, the first item is a used one of these, and the seller has it at a "Buy It Now" price of £ 450.

The second is a used one of these. This time at a BIN price of £ 150. However, no mention is made of the cable-connector.

Location is given as Manchester. I wonder if it is anyone we know?

Here is another source of test equipment for hire.

Their catalogue is worth taking a look at (hopefully over a cup of tea)!

i have a ECG simulator for sale for more info please email on jon324u@hotmail.com

I have a Metron QA45 Defib tester for sale. For mor info please email me on dg.mulvey@btinternet.com

Those two items listed on eBay (and mentioned by Scott) are still there, by the way.

Hi i have several items of test equipment, ive got a watt meter for ultrasound, a 12 lead patient ecg tester, also last week i got 3 fluke vent testers, 2 have never been used and the other has seen a bit of action, ida 2 plus infusion tester, if your interested or anyone else let me know

Welcome to the forum.

I may be interested in that stuff!

I'm happy to let Mr_Peeps have first shout, of course ... but drop me a PM or email if you like. Details, prices, and stuff like that.

Cheers

Geoff

not sure how to pm geoff, the vent testers im looking a 500 for the new ones, 300 for the used, open to offers on the other kit, i do have a few other bits , im in oxford near bicester if you would like to vist

Message received and understood.

Hi badboy, do you still have any of the vent testers left??

I have also been wondering about that, Malcolm.

But "badboybio"* doesn't seem to be too sharp when it comes to checking out his messages on this forum, I'm afraid. Or his emails, for that matter.

* Are "all the clues there"? I'm wondering about that as well!

Hi Geoff,how are you??
do you have any knowledge of a USB device/software I can use for Vent. testing??

I'll leave it to someone else to answer that one, Malcolm.

I'm not really well up on what you might call "modern" (the latest, whatever) test equipment myself.

Hi all, i still have one vent tester left and a 12 lead paitent simulater, just had a temperature calibrater come in but i havent unpacked it or tested it, sorry for the dealy, badboybio

We need details and prices!

PM if you like.

the vent tester is a fluke vt looking for 500, and the lion heart 12 lead looking for 200, also have a qa 90 which may be for sale too

Hello!
I need defibrillator analyzer FLUKE QED-6 or Metron QA-45 or Netech DELTA 3000 or similar in the reasonable price. If you have such an equipment I ask for offers

mlato16@wp.pl

( delivery to manchaster )

Best Regards
Martin

There is a QED-6 currently listed on eBay. Just search on "Bio-Tek". No doubt the seller would be happy to send it to an address in Manchester. I'll leave it to you to decide if the price being asked is "reasonable".

So. I contacted the seller yesterday, but the analyser was already sold. This way so my request for offers remains apt.

mlato16@wp.pl

Best Regards

Martin

The Bio-Tek QED-6 I have in mind is still listed on eBay at the moment.

The "Buy It Now" price is £ 500, but you can also make an offer. So far, it looks like one offer has been placed.

But don't worry. No doubt others shall be listing their wares right here soon enough.

Hi,
Can you please let me know if that is a Metron qa 90 safety tester which you may be selling.

Regards,

Rob R

Dear Rob R the metron QA-90 currently have been recall by manufacturer, due some issue on patient leads at the same time this model are all ready in obsulate for fluke biomedical.

Dear guna,
Many thanks for the information on the metron.
Best regards.

I have often wondered where all this medical and test equipment on eBay and the like comes from. Especially that for sale in the UK.
How many individuals have test or medical equipment that is theirs to sell or has it fallen off the back of a passing EBME department? Stock that the hospital/department has finished with and is "thrown away"?
I am not accusing anyone here of this, I am just curious as to the source of eBay equipment in the UK.
RoJo

I know this come as somewhat of a surprise to some ... but there is a "private sector" out there, you know! And I have yet to hear of any of the test equipment vendors refusing to accept money.


Well, I do for starters. And, as far as I know, none of it has "fallen off the back of lorry", EBME or any other. I might add that I don't recall seeing any used test equipment with serial numbers conveniently missing (so stuff can be traced ... especially by the calibration shops).

Here's another surprise (how many can you handle in one go?):- there are also such things as auctions. Ex-NHS, ex-military, etc., etc. You buy your test kit, repair it if need be, get it calibrated ... and Hey Presto (Robert's your father's brother).

Lastly, I have come across many (and I mean many) items of medical equipment (including test equipment) being sold at auction where the hospital obviously couldn't be arsed to remove their asset labels. The only conclusion I can draw there is that they cannot be too worried about any potential "come-backs"!

Once I even alerted my Old Mates in one NHS biomed shop about a particular item that I came across being loaded into a container on its way out to [censored]. Guess what? According to their "database" the kit concerned was still sitting in Outpatients (yes, so much for their PM programme, then).

Two surprises in one post - can my heart stand it? Get the defib ready and make sure the operator is well trained.
RoJo

With yet another Bank Holiday Weekend in prospect, and with wet weather forecast (naturally), I really need to get stuck in and have a good sort-out of my residual bits and pieces.

Having threatened (and, indeed, tried) many times (since at least one occasion I clearly recall back in the mid 1980's) to "draw a veil over medical equipment", this time I might really go for it, I reckon. You know, in order to "pursue other projects".

Anyway, I digress (?):- I have a few items that I shall list later (if Huw so permits). I may also take a few pictures, just in case some of the stuff ends up listed on eBay.

But (in short), I have a decent Bio-Tek 601-Pro (series) EST, plus a couple of Rigel 233's (one of which works OK, the other is faulty). I also have a Bender u601 EST, which works when it feels in the mood. Also a couple of IDA-1's that have always worked OK for me, plus an old S&W defib tester and an Eschmann ETS-1 test box. And ... a few odds and ends like signal generators, and stuff like that.

This kit has been used mostly for checking out donated equipment in interesting places like cow-sheds. But it seems that even that "market" has dried up now, and so I hardly ever use the kit these days.

Nothing really sensational, then. But I get tired of carting this stuff around each time I have to make a move. So, once again, I'm having to "simplify, simplify" (... and how many times is that now). If anyone has a couple of hundred quid that they can spare, then now's your chance (that is, catch me whilst I'm in the mood). Otherwise, I might just bung it all in the next container I see passing by on its way out to Africa (or wherever).

I forgot to mention my Timeter RT-200 (which is also in good shape). It was never fitted with the RS-232 interface. And (of course) is a few years out of cal!

If someone wants to collect this kit, which goes as a "job lot", then that would be fine. At present I am not far from junction 10 of the A1(M).

Otherwise, as long as the weather is nice, I am prepared to travel up to 100 miles to deliver. Anything further than that would need to be a "meet me somewhere" proposition (motorway services, or some such place). And ... I refuse to venture anywhere within the M25 circle.

Does anyone have any information about the SPC-1?

Yet another "blast from the past" that I heard mentioned recently. But I had never come across this one before.

Does anyone have one (and/or the software) that they would be happy enough to wave goodbye to?

I'll take that as a "No", then.

This stuff is still up for grabs - together with the Timeter RT-200. If anyone wants it (on an "all or nothing" basis) I would be happy to consider any reasonable offer. As I am prepared to deliver the stuff (or meet up somewhere) such offer(s) would need to exceed my petrol costs!

Please note, however, that the earlier statement about junction 10 of the A1(M) no longer applies (but the bit about the M25 still stands)!

Perhaps I should mention that (as usual) I'm also willing to haggle. For instance, I could be willing to swap the stuff for a half-decent PC (or even - possibly - some other "interesting" item or items).