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![Testing some old Western Electric LEDs [4032x3024 - 931KB]](https://poal.co/static/images/eda506132d1619b0.jpg){kind=link}
![I felt like I was classifying new bacterium here. [4032x3024 - 1.07MB]](https://poal.co/static/images/139b3171d7c5163b.jpg){kind=link}
![Picked this oddball R-C bridge up recently. [1762x1330 - 354KB]](https://poal.co/static/images/067171696d693317.jpg){kind=link}
![This Majestic console with fold out speakers. [4032x3024 - 2.2MB]](https://poal.co/static/images/c8d9424b5bd3661c.jpg){kind=link}
![Old with the old. [3024x4032 - 1.59MB]](https://poal.co/static/images/0e4e868891a5c2e8.jpg){kind=link}
![This piece of old equipment... [1500x1548 - 246KB]](https://poal.co/static/images/34340c150321712e.jpg){kind=link}
![On old silver-mica postage stamp capacitors. [469x460 - 51KB]](https://poal.co/static/images/ce8f0fadb1ce4e4e.jpg){kind=link}
![Germanium crystal point-contact diode. [1138x1280 - 127KB]](https://poal.co/static/images/020000234f3870c0.jpg){kind=link}
![When you open a 70 year old device and find something the OEM didn't do... [500x629 - 43KB]](https://poal.co/static/images/c4860b8b1b1f7bf6.jpg){kind=link}