What to do with 104 decommissioned cellular routers
An agency retired its fleet of CradlePoint LTE gateways. We bought the lot. Here is the arithmetic on a bulk buy nobody else wanted.
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The HP 3458A is still the best multimeter ever built
Designed in 1989, still the reference standard in metrology labs, still not really beaten. One came through our bench. Here is why it matters.
The pump the seller said was broken
A lot was discounted because a pump "does not stay powered on." We could not reproduce the fault. Here is why that happens more often than you think.
The software gate, and why used lab instruments sell for half
The biggest discount in the used lab equipment market is not condition. It is software you cannot get. Here is how we closed that gap on a Park XE7.
We bought an atomic force microscope at a government auction
A Park Systems XE7 AFM came up on GovDeals listed as generic lab equipment. Here is why we bid on an instrument that cost more new than most cars.