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Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound?
If you want to kill your liver, soak your hands in MEK. Acetone and lacquer thinner are just as bad. All can be very destructive on components. A considerable time ago when I was frequently reverse
By Greg Muir · #175872 ·
Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound?
I would second all of the suggestions to obtain a new supply... But, for forensic purposes, and because it has not yet been mentioned, I have heard of Methylene Chloride being used in de-potting.
By Dave Wright · #175871 ·
Re: Spectrum analyzer Tektronix 7L13 on mainframe Tektronix 7603
Jim Mcvein, do you have any news for me in relation to 52.5 MHz crystal? I am in Italy, if you give me your bank details and the amount I have to pay for the crystal and the shipping costs, I will
By Attilio · #175870 ·
Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 03:12 PM, Larry McDavid wrote: > > Anyone interested in buying sets of boards to share? > > Larry > Show quoted text ( #quoted-178120155 ) > > On 12/31/2020 11:27 AM, Jared
By Craig Cramb · #175869 ·
Re: Peter Keller's Book Mailing Status (Minor Correction)
I was mistaken to say Media Rate mail does not have tracking numbers. I just looked at the 84 inch (2.13m) long receipt I received and discovered that each of the 72 packages I mailed does have a
By Dennis Tillman W7pF · #175868 ·
Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester...
Wouldn't my idea of bringing the connections separately to the front panel solve this? Continuity between each end of each 25 VAC winding could be tested without the mainframe being powered up. Colin.
By Colin Herbert · #175867 ·
Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound?
During the early days of satellite video descrambler hacking (Videocypher module) a friend of mine was quite active doing this work and it entailed replacing a chip that I think was a 27xx ROM. At
By Alex · #175866 ·
Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester...
Does that include checking that the floating AC windings are really floating ? I have had a TM503 with one end of one of the windings in one compartment shorted to ground. Voltages looked OK but the
By zenith5106 · #175865 ·
Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester...
Tha me to all, I have not had the opportunity to review any of the literature or watch the video. I appreciate everyone filling in the blanks for me! -- Michael Lynch Dardanelle, AR
By Mlynch001 · #175864 ·
Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
I should perhaps point out that since there are 12 connections on each of two sides of the backplane connectors that someone might want to gain access to, it is very easy to run out of space on the
By Colin Herbert · #175863 ·
Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester...
If anyone else needs some more info on what the tester was intended to do when Tektronix came up with the idea, it is useful to check out Tekwiki (https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/067-1201-99), as indeed
By Colin Herbert · #175862 ·
Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
Some time ago I had similar thoughts on accessing the connections to the pass transistors, as well as accessing the 25 VAC connections. I had a problem on one of my TM50X mainframes with one of these
By Colin Herbert · #175861 ·
Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester...
Yep, the mainframe tester tests for short/leakage and beta, along with the DC and AC voltages, and phasing of the two floating AC windings.
By Jared Cabot · #175860 ·
Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
Hi Larry, I might well be interested in a board set, so long as the cost and shipping to London, UK aren't too crazy. I have been intending to build one of these testers for a while and have a few of
By Colin Herbert · #175859 ·
Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester...
Yes, These will cause a cascade of failures with certain modules. I always try to at least diode check those pass transistors before inserting any module or powering up. So your Mainframe tester
By Michael W. Lynch · #175858 ·
Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester...
The trick is a bad pass transistor can quickly kill a module, which can then go on to kill another slot in the mainframe, etc etc. Using a module (that isn't the purpose built tester) to test the
By Jared Cabot · #175857 ·
Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
I just used a prototype board and brought the pins out. I am sure that the traces on a dead plug in could be isolated and used as well. I find that many of the transistors read lower gain than
By Ed (SCSKITS) · #175856 ·
Re: Quick question 564B
Ok, Thanks Chuck.
By Stephen · #175855 ·
2230 storage deja vu
Hi all Quite a lot of years ago there was a topic posted here that went on for some time but never reached any conclusion as to the cause of the problem...unfortunately the exact problem I think I'm
By Kevin · #175854 ·
Re: Quick question 564B
It is a cute little scope, but very low bandwidth, something like 10MHz. Its HV transformer suffers from the epoxy disease that affects 547 scopes. They are quiet, not having a fan, and the plugins
By Chuck Harris <cfharris@...> · #175853 ·