Go for it !
Well ¡ I spent some time this AM reading through the Newscope 6 (8560E kit) manual and found good news and bad news there. The good news is that the end result is quite nice. The bad news is that the install, with my limited recent experience in such matters, seems in the same league as a heart transplant! It¡¯s the kind of thing where you¡¯d much prefer the person doing the conversion had done it at least a few times previously. So far, I have never seen an 8560E with the case off. Just getting the anatomy understood will be a challenge. I¡¯d much rather commission an 8560 expert who has done this before to install this mod, preemptively replace components which commonly fail, and do a calibration, etc. Short of this, I may wait for a serious failure that leaves no choice but to open it up and jump in. In the meantime, I will keep looking at the photos of the end result for motivation.
OTTH, I recently tore into a Tek 495P SA (also had never previously had the case off) which had problems and found and fixed the problem without much difficulty. This was relatively easy however: sourcing a replacement memory board on eBay, recapping, and programming the firmware EPROMs. Maybe I can do this!
Thanks Shaun, for the link. This may tip me over to go ahead.
RB
