Re: worst condition Tektronix scope?
There aren't many tropical jungles in Stoke-on-Trent, but maybe it was stored in a garden shed neat the river Trent? The price is well-above any sane person would pay, surely? Colin.
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Colin Herbert
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Re: worst condition Tektronix scope?
Here is a parts scope I got from eBay /g/TekScopes/album?id=257163 Most of the knobs are smashed, it's been spattered in something gray that won't come off with soap or IPA, but when
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Jeff Dutky
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Re: worst condition Tektronix scope?
Awfully high price for an "ornament"; and you'd need quite a substantial Christmas tree to hang that from! -Dave
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Dave Seiter
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worst condition Tektronix scope?
Just saw this on ebay in the UK : https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tektronix-Type-545-Oscilloscope-Vintage-Antique-Collectors/353290325095?hash=item5241be8c67:g:-GYAAOSwBPZfvDOx Looks like it's been stored
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Sparky99
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Re: Delay Time Position Vernier
I checked my working scope this morning. I wish we could do inline pictures. I reviewed my tear down pictures and found that I had a shot of the DTP knob before I took it off, and am 99% certain that
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Dave Peterson
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Re: Delay Time Position Vernier
Colin, Oh, I had expected some kind of calibration process, but it's just a bunch of constant offsets for different models. I see that I am lucky to only be concerned with a model that is always set
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Jeff Dutky
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Re: Why you now Paypal
I've gotten it occasionally. I usually go there from what Firefox calls a private browsing window. Cookies aren't saved there and the first time going after restarting the browser is when I would get
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Vince Vielhaber
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Re: Why you now Paypal
Weird. I NEVER have a Captcha / Not A Robot screen or button when using PayPal.... I do not save my password. Have to enter it every time, my choice. Works for me. I do not understand the "how far
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Frank DuVal
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Tek 2xxx and 3xxx 56x series plugins available
Hello to all, I should have many 3A1/3A6 and other 56x series plugins in my stock.? The problem is they are on the other side of Ohio at my other house. Let me know what you want and I can look for
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Jim Reese
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Re: 7A26 no signal
Thanks for the guidance, I suppose I have to take the cleaning challenge first as there are couple of suggestions for it. As I didn't get any signal to R130... I am also getting another unit to
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Jouko Koskinen
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Re: A Couple Restorations
Bob, Where are you located? there is a small handheld Tektronix scope in a surpus store near me and that I can probably get cheaply. As best as I can remember it is a 2xx model but I don't remember
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Re: Resistor in series
Hi Tom, You must have done that calculation before the thread caught my attention. I've checked everything I wrote, and I don't see anywhere that I have said, "but they might still have made a
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Chuck Harris <cfharris@...>
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Re: To pay for Peter Keller's Book ...
Thanks larry
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Lawrance A. Schneider
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Re: (OT) Where to go for 70s IBM hardware? I'm looking for a terminal.
I have a pile of old IBM and Telex terminals from a local school system when the state moved away from old IBM mainframes. They are stored in my garage, but I am unable to get to them without help.
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Michael A. Terrell
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Re: Resistor in series
Carbon Composition resistors absorb moisture. Bake them for a while before tossing them out. Also, high value resistors require voltage across them to work at their marked value This used to be
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Michael A. Terrell
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Re: 7A26 no signal
I have just checked input resistances on a working-to-spec 7A26, the results are quite unexpected!. If I use an analogue meter and have the 7A26 powered off then in the 10mV position the DC
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Roger Evans
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Re: Why you MUST USE the PayPal "FRIENDS and FAMILY" option for Peter's book
I thought about this a bit, with the huge volume of paypal transactions every day across the world, the actual number of horror stories would have to be a fraction of a fraction of a percent.
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Jared Cabot
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Re: Delay Time Position Vernier
I don't recall seeing it in any Service Manual, but our good friend H?kan has produced a document on the topic: http://www.hakanh.com/dl/docs/hardtofind/dtmsettings.pdf Colin.
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Colin Herbert
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Re: Tektronix 492A input attenuator repair ????
Once I had the same issue with the 492 attenuator. Taking it carefully apart, one of the wafers was burned. I was able to manufacture a wafer myself, using very thin teflon laminate and 0402 SMD
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Ulf Kylenfall
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Re: Resistor in series
OK, yuzz made me look. I found the schematic for the 475A, and my quick assessment is that there's nothing special about low capacitance or inductance or precise value of the R1356/R1544 combo. I also
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Ed Breya
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