This arrived this past week. Very stoked to get exactly what I have been looking for all these years. Sun 506. This model has a Xeon light instead of the standard neon many of the olders models have which is really expensive to replace. The advantage of the Xeon also is its much brighter. You don't have to turn the lights off to see it. I just happened to search CL one day and saw this machine. The guy had it for 500 so I immediately thought there was something wrong with it. I called anyway and a nice lady answered the phone. She said it was out of her husbands speed shop in Madison NY. After a bit of confusion I found out her husband was still alive. I talked with him for hrs on the phone. He was a huge wealth of knowledge. I could also tell this machine was his baby. It was one of only a few things he still kept. I told him its going to a good home and will be put to good use. I plan on keeping it forever. I had a mud member go pick it up for me and shipped it to me. Thanks Joe.
I got a hell of a deal. It's spotless and works flawlessly. The unit alone is worth 2k in its condition. But I got a couple holy grail tools thrown in. One is the spring scale which came in its original box. They sell for over 200 on
eBay all the time. As well I got the original pulse amplifier with it which is also another couple hundred. Cannot wait to start putting it to work.
I've been using these past few years a Sun MDT model from the 40's. It works fine but is loud and very old as well I basically have only the Dizzy strobe I can use. Everything else I have to connect a meter to. Which sucked. As well it required 4 voltages which wasn't any fun. Lots of wires for 120ac, 6vdc, 3vdc, and 1.5vdc. As much as I hate to do this I'm going to sell it cause I need the room. She and I had a lot of good times together.
Found this inside one of the manuals.
And a few videos.
In the light
Okay one more. Gives you an idea of how Vac advance works on a dizzy. And that's not one of my dizzy's I sell. It was a demo I got back in the day. I didn't like the design.
Okay one more. Gives you an idea of how Vac advance works on a dizzy.