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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).

Two years on (from May 2011) and I'm still tripping over the Bio-Tek 601-Pro and the Timeter RT-200. As well as a couple of toolkits - and various "loose" tools. Plus a few other odds and ends; general servicing consumables and the like.

I've also got a nice Kawh 952-D SMD soldering (de-soldering) station.

I shall be sorry to see this stuff go. To be honest, it hardly gets used these days (and I shall always keep my basic tools and multimeter(s) back, of course). But I get a bit tired carting it all about (and then finding somewhere to stash it) each time I shuffle off to pastures new.

If anyone wants this stuff, better pipe up (as a guy I know has his eyes on it to supplement his car-boot sale offerings - which effectively means giving it away, of course).

Not too much left now, but I'm planning another "serious sort out" soon ... but happily the weather is too nice to contemplate that today. Hey - what's going on:- that's two decent Bank Holiday Mondays this month!

I don't have a copy of the spc-1 software anymore but I bet the guys at ultra medic might help. The spc was a digital calliper with rs232 interface, the equivalent of the IDA for syringe drivers.

Thanks for that input, Joe.

The SPC-1 sounds (sounded) like an interesting piece of kit, but I have (still) never come across one.

Anyway, the moment has passed now, as it were (as in:- a lot of sand has passed down the wadi - or many gallons [litres] of petrol through the injectors - or even a fair number of notes through the ATM - since I made that post).

This may be of interest to a few folk.

There's a lot of good kit there. They've even got a CamSafe!