Capacitor Testers.

[Yorkie]

Hello David.
And thank you for your kind comment. David have you seen the AEROVOX Capacitor Tester i put on in the test gear.
Regards Kev.

I hadn't Kev, but I have now, so thanks for pointing me towards it. What a lovely piece of kit, and in pristine condition too. I guess that collecting vintage test gear must be your 'thing' as you don't just come across such things by chance - you surely need to track them down. I've mentioned on the forum that I've always liked test gear, and have made many items over the years - usually housed in metal or plastic cases, but this last couple of years have taken to making little comb-jointed boxes, usually in oak, evocative of the test gear and crystal sets of old.

I've often fancied one of those old electric shock machines that have a magneto and which you turn by hand. Beautifully made brass gears and so forth, housed in a wooden cabinet. I've occasionally come across them in a dilapidated condition at car boot sales, but with an asking price way beyond anything sensible. They'd make a nice restoration project at a sensible price. All sorts of extravagent claims were made about those machines as to curing real or imagined illnesses. I think the mere sight of one would be sufficient for me to feel much better without attaching myself to it, out of sheer fear!

I have a home-brew capacitor reformer that featured in RadioBygones which I built a couple of years ago, which uses a voltage doubler to raise the voltage to a max of 500 Volts. I'm normally very safety conscious, but in an unguraded moment I inadvertently touch a connection and got the full 500V up me. Boy did I leap into action! It's a good job that as they say 'It's Volts and jolts, and mills that kills'. It certainly taught me a lesson I'll not forget in a hurry.

Enjoy your collecting Kev, and thnaks for sharing it with us.

David