RE: Old survey meter

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

Have you looked in the Newark Electronics catalog? You'd be surprised how
many weird old battery types are still available. Radio Shack is also a
good source. Or just check the local yellow pages for vendors of electronic
parts.

chris a.
alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu

At 07:17  04/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>A possible source of batteries, should you want them is a company called
>"Batteries, Batteries" in Phoenix AZ.  The claim that they can match
>anything ever made.
>
>Sorry that I don't have a full address.  Perhaps someone in Phoenix will
>look it up and let both of us know.
>
>Bill Kendall
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Williamson [mailto:m.williamson@mailbox.uq.edu.au]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 9:19 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Old survey meter 
>
>
>I've been asked by a physics undergraduate for some information on an old
>Ecko survey meter (model N596).  It appears to be an ion chamber unit with
>a detection chamber about 20 cm in diameter.  It seems to have used several
>batteries, none of which is likely to be obtainable now.
>
>Have any of the old hands ever used one of these?  Would anyone have a
>handbook...I know, a faint hope indeed.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Mike
>
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