Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound?
Emerson-Cumming used to sell a very good epoxy dissolving liquid. Wear super strong gloves and an N95 mask on your face, or the liquid will dissolve the skin on your fingers and wreak havoc on your
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Gary Robert Bosworth
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Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
A frame and front panel from a 5000 series scope plugin is the same as the TM500[0] plugins. Sometimes they can be found for under $20 on ebay. Vince. -- K8ZW http://www.metalworkingfun.com
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Vince Vielhaber
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Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound?
The balast resistor should be located as close to the tube anode as possible (minimum stray capacitance to the tube anode). Leon Robinson ?K5JLR
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Leon Robinson
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7L5 shaft encoder disassembly
Bonjour a tous, Working on my 7L5, has just one bad shaft encoder knob, the FREQ span/div Usual flaky positions 1/2/5 kHz are acting like 100/200/500 kHz. Just using contact cleaner does not fix the
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Jean-Paul
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Re: 7603 RO mech flaky
Rodger: Mille mercis: 1/ Swapping into another 7904 MF, the issues are in the 7603. Opened up, Voila, dirty board edge connectors on the backplane, folded biz card soaked in contact renew, cleaned all
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Jean-Paul
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Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound?
I talked to a friend of mine that used to do Failure Analysis for Litton Laser. He has some PSUs made by Laser Drive, Inc. and he's going to look and see if he can find something with a similar part
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Re: 7603 RO mech flaky
Jean-Paul, You may also need to clean the switch segments in the plugins that are responsible for changing the readout characters - you will find some of the cam switch segments just switch different
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Roger Evans
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Re: Odd 2247A problem, looking for insight
I have just had an idea for aligning holes in cases where access to some internal item might be required (and I wish I'd thought about it some time ago). It occurred to me that lots of simple little
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Colin Herbert
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Re: Odd 2247A problem, looking for insight
Walter, I'm not familiar with this instrument; so, I may be way off base --but - Rather than drilling a hole in the case, why not the following? 1) Adjust as normal 2) Close the case 3) Measure, as
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SCMenasian
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Re: Odd 2247A problem, looking for insight
Hi Walter, if you make that adjustment hole and it aligns successfully, could you please post the information so as to be able to duplicate it? I still need to make that same adjustment on my 2247A
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Alex
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Re: Tek 4041 GPIB Controller
Monty: How can I purchase the EZ-Test tapes and others you mention? Gary -- Gary Robert Bosworth grbosworth@gma
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Gary Robert Bosworth
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Re: 2230 storage deja vu
I should add Roger that I am not convinced that U2102 is the problem...but it might be. After reading the theory of operation, which I only partially understand, it could be many different things. If
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Kevin
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7603 RO mech flaky
Bonjour a tous, Voeux Nouvelle Ann¨¦e! The 7603 is used with 7L5 or 7L12 SA plugins. All OK except both SA have a flaky RO, with several areas showing scrambled alphanumerics. If I push on the FP of
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Jean-Paul
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Re: 2230 storage deja vu
Hi Bert. Cables not the issue in this case as the problem follows the input on the storage board not the cables connected to them. I'm continuing to investigate but this scope is not the easiest to
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Kevin
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Re: 2230 storage deja vu
Thanks for that Roger. My 2230 used the later U2101 234-0408-20 chip which absolutely does not seem to exist anywhere but I believe I could get the earlier more common one you mention to work. My
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Kevin
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Re: Spectrum analyzer Tektronix 7L13 on mainframe Tektronix 7603
Hi Attilio, It's in a TO-5 transistor package, so a bit non-standard. It's not soldered in place -- it plugs into a 3-pin socket (the nice ones Tek used in later products -- the ones with the silicone
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Tom Lee
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Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound?
Reading through Wikipedia, MEK is also a *welding* agent for plastic parts, used in scale modelling. I remember having put together many scale buildings for my fathers model railroad. The "glue" I was
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Martin
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Re: Spectrum analyzer Tektronix 7L13 on mainframe Tektronix 7603
Hi Tom, so it is a standard AT cut crystal, a third overtone crystal, with an accuracy of 5 ppm. But what kind of container is the crystal in ? Thanks -- Cheers Attilio
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Attilio
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Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
Maybe I should draw up some 3D files for 3D printable chassis parts. :D
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Jared Cabot
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Re: Spectrum analyzer Tektronix 7L13 on mainframe Tektronix 7603
Hi Jim, I did find the data in the Common Design Parts catalog (thanks again!), but I didn't see anything about the crystal being an SC-cut. The reason I'm so interested in this detail is that an
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Tom Lee
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