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Locked Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound? FOLLOWUP
I de-pot epoxy potted assemblies frequently, and I use heat. First, I put the device in my environmental chamber set for 150C. When it is good and hot, I bring it to my bench, and use a combination of
By Chuck Harris <cfharris@...> · #179174 ·
Re: What years were tunnel diodes designed into Tek instruments?
Brooke Clark on his PRC68.com website reminisced about his days working for Aertech testing tunnel diodes. This excerpt is gratuitously stolen from his website: "Early tunnel diodes were made by hand
By Chuck Harris <cfharris@...> · #179173 ·
Re: 465B strange ripple
Hi all, I still wasn¡¯t able to solve the ¡°ripple¡± issue of my 465B. Apparently, as someone mentioned at some point, there is effectively 2 triggered traces. I could clearly see them. I have no
By Stephen · #179172 ·
Re: PG506 of solid gold
Nenad Filipovic If you are interested I have some working units available for sale. Contact me off list for details. Craig
By Craig Cramb · #179171 ·
Re: PG506 of solid gold
I own a pg506 taken as broken (really broken, no powers up) for about 80 euros 5 years ago. Repaired, ii works since then. It's the only TM500 plugin I have, and I use it to calibrate 7000 mainframes
By unclebanjoman · #179170 ·
Re: PG506 of solid gold
Hello all: PG506 are tricky to buy on epay: hard to fix as cleaning the switches or replacing certain ICs is not easy. Virtually no sellers on epay can properly test all the functions. So expect
By Jean-Paul · #179169 ·
Re: 2N3904 B-E junction as fast diode substitute?
C-B junctions can often be used as low-leakage diodes... I'm surprised that E-B are also considered low-leakage, given the low breakdown. Must do a comparison some day :-)
By Michael Dunn · #179168 ·
Locked Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound? FOLLOWUP
Dennis, A friend of mine is always disassembling things and reverse engineering them so I sent your message to him. He replied and that me that one of the guys that he used with work with at Litton
By - · #179167 ·
Re: PG506 of solid gold
- wrote: I was at an auction years ago, and won some equipment. The guy I beat was mad. The next item up for bid was used IBM banking equipment. I bid $1 for a Gaylord full of assorted tiny monitors
By Michael A. Terrell · #179166 ·
Locked Re: Slightly OT: How can I dissolve Potting Compound? FOLLOWUP
Hi, Epoxies are thermoharders, which means that, once set (from mixing 2 base components) , you cannot melt them any more (unlike thermoplast e.g. poly ethylene, PVC, Polypropylene), see also
By Redguuz · #179165 ·
Re: What years were tunnel diodes designed into Tek instruments?
Great, Jeff. It looks like we¡¯ve managed to narrow the window considerably. So it¡¯s looking like the Age of the TD started around 1961 and ended almost exactly 20 years later. Not a bad run for an
By Tom Lee · #179164 ·
Re: What years were tunnel diodes designed into Tek instruments?
Tom, Concerning the last use of tunnel diodes: The 465B, introduced in 1980, uses tunnel diodes, the 2215, introduced in 1982, does not. Is that merely a result of the lower bandwidth of the 2215
By Jeff Dutky · #179163 ·
Re: Modifying W Plugin to use 6DJ8 Tubes
By Bill Perkins · #179162 ·
Re: Modifying W Plugin to use 6DJ8 Tubes
I wouldn't, those parts aren't even remotely alike. The 'DJ h
By Bill Perkins · #179161 ·
Re: PG506 of solid gold
I meant an alternative to a PG506, not an alternative to eBay...
By Stephen · #179160 ·
Re: TM500 Mainframe Tester construction master thread.
I was reporting the diode designator was incorrect in the "customer reference" field of the DigiKey BOM (which gets printed on the component bags), not in the manual. Minor typos/copy-pasta in manual:
By Andy Warner · #179159 ·
Re: PG506 of solid gold
The same alternatives that existed before E-bay. Garage sales, thrift stores, networking with similarly minded people, government surplus sales, surplus stores, etc. Due to the higher prices that
By - · #179158 ·
Re: PG506 of solid gold
You mean other auction sites?? Not any that have a lot of traffic.? There is a auction house near me that used to do sealed bids on everything. (mostly electronic gear and scrap from local
By Dave Seiter · #179157 ·
Re: (Solved) Re: 7854 - No RO in SCOPE + WF modulates RO in STORED
And, finally, here is the solution to the missing readout in SCOPE mode and the acquisition warning which were tied to the same cause. I am documenting some insights for posterity and for the benefit
By Ram · #179156 ·
Re: PG506 of solid gold
While it hasn't happened to me in a long time, there is nothing more fun than watching two or three of those morons bidding on something you're selling!? There was even an occasion when I bunch of
By Dave Seiter · #179155 ·