# Geekgasm: I just scored a General Radio 1531-AB Strobotac for free! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekgasm-i-just-scored-a-general-radio-1531-ab-strobotac-for-free/591495 "2011-08-04T19:14:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekgasm-i-just-scored-a-general-radio-1531-ab-strobotac-for-free/591495/1 "2011-08-04T19:14:35Z")
[Badow!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3xphcEH7MQ) (This is not my vid.) So the lab down the hall was trying to make some extra space, and invited everyone over to swipe whatever glassware/equipment they wanted. Among the stuff was a pristine 1531. Works perfectly, self-calibrates, goes from 100 RPM to 25,000 RPM, and has inputs and outputs for syncing up to a camera for high-speed photography. SCORE! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekgasm-i-just-scored-a-general-radio-1531-ab-strobotac-for-free/591495/2 "2011-08-04T19:33:12Z")
Oh holy moley that’s boss !!! You got it for FREE ??? What kinda lab did you say you worked in again ? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekgasm-i-just-scored-a-general-radio-1531-ab-strobotac-for-free/591495/3 "2011-08-04T19:42:46Z")
Yup. Free. They used to use it for a teaching unit in one of the biology labs, but they’d discontinued that lab years ago. I guess it had been sitting in a cabinet for 20 years, and its purpose had been forgotten. Of course, I saw it and went, “HOLY SHIT.” ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekgasm-i-just-scored-a-general-radio-1531-ab-strobotac-for-free/591495/4 "2011-08-04T20:30:52Z")
Hey, take it to the county fair. It’s August. They’re everywhere ! " Are you an Epileptic??? Find out !!! " ( I know. It’s not P.C. My apologies to those who have Epilepsy who are Dopers, who know someone who has it, etc. But it IS a tempting way to make a few hunnerd dollars a night 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekgasm-i-just-scored-a-general-radio-1531-ab-strobotac-for-free/591495/5 "2011-08-05T15:37:22Z")
Congratulations, Cartooniverse. You and I are apparently the geekiest geeks in Geekville. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekgasm-i-just-scored-a-general-radio-1531-ab-strobotac-for-free/591495/6 "2011-08-05T15:42:06Z")
You totally need to set up one of those cool strobe photo studios. [Strobe photos!](http://www.google.com/search?q=strobe+photography&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS388US389&biw=993&bih=797&site=webhp&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1g48TrvRCcfm0QGKpuy7Aw&ved=0CFEQsAQ) [Soundtrack music!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-RS7c6TiOQ) ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekgasm-i-just-scored-a-general-radio-1531-ab-strobotac-for-free/591495/7 "2011-08-05T15:47:49Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > You totally need to set up one of those cool strobe photo studios. > > [Strobe photos!](http://www.google.com/search?q=strobe+photography&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS388US389&biw=993&bih=797&site=webhp&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1g48TrvRCcfm0QGKpuy7Aw&ved=0CFEQsAQ) > > [Soundtrack music!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-RS7c6TiOQ) I am definitely going to try to work that out. In the meantime, however, I also got one of those electric rotators along with a ton of “optical illusion discs”. I’m going to work it into our band’s stage show. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geekgasm-i-just-scored-a-general-radio-1531-ab-strobotac-for-free/591495/8 "2011-08-05T15:55:47Z")
HA !!! on the Soundtrack link !! Freakin’ brilliant. So…your band… The Geektones… Sponsored by The Straight Dope… touring North America in support of its new album, **One Dope Over The Line** featuring the viral single **" Cite Ashun Nation "**. Coming soon to a microbrew pub near you !!! Oh, I can imagine the t shirts. 😃 ( B Side : **" Stroboscopic Ganglia "** )