They Scored a $40K Test Chamber for Just $1K—and Now the Fun Begins

Linus Labs just snagged a second environmental test chamber at auction for a crazy lowball $1,000 bid—despite it normally costing over $40,000. The catch? The original manufacturer has folded, it’s been sitting unpowered (and exposed to the elements!) in a surplus yard for the past decade, and no one’s quite sure if it even works anymore.

Now the team needs a game plan: haul the beast through tiny doorways, figure out if it’s water-cooled, trace down replacement parts (if any exist), and pray for a spark of life. It’s an adventure in teardown, troubleshooting, and maybe some MacGyver-style engineering to turn this rusty hunk of metal back into a precision testing rig.

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