Notes on bringing up an old Tek 570
A friend of mine just purchased an old Tek 570 Vacuum Tube Curve Tracer that hadn't been used in decades. He is a competent technical guy, but wasn't too familiar with old tube scopes. I made up a
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John Atwood
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Re: Tek 422 ac/dc power supply issues
"glad to hear the DC/DC converter is working that should be a relief.
so why is the Ac-Dc linear causing an issue??"
I found out it's not. It's the voltage.
"The Chopper xsistor is not too
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Jeff Urban
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Re: 465B won't trigger
I popped out the transistor pair in the downstream A trigger view circuit and the voltages didn't change, so that leaves out that circuit as causing problems.
So I did like Fabio said and pulled out
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blackholenulled
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Re: Nuvistors
I think this one is 6CW4 , if interested where do I mail it?
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vaclav_sal <vaclav_sal@...>
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464 intermittent trace / sweep
I would like someone to help me to figure out why my trusty 464 won't keep the sweep going.
I do have shop manual.
The scope been sitting on my desk , unused for over two years.
As far as I can
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vaclav_sal <vaclav_sal@...>
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
That's the same one from the ebay link - same vendor and manufacturer too.
Vince.
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Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/
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Vince Vielhaber
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
First find from my friend Google.
https://www.amazon.com/BNC-Tool-Connector-Tightening-Wrench/dp/B00MEW0SCM
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Glenn Little
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
And here's one covering the installation tool.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4759122A
Vince.
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Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/
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Vince Vielhaber
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Re: Eli Heffron's electronic junkyard
Just wanted to contribute to this compilation of long-gone electronics
surplus dealers.
From the late 1960s through the early '80s, I knew of three such stores in
the northern Virginia suburbs of
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Albert LaFrance
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
I just stumbled across this about BNC repair:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4416143
Ed
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Ed Breya
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
Tek had a very strong "do it ourselves" attitude. Since they had to make
many jigs and tools they made many of the tools even one could buy them I
use to have a small collection of parts used to make
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Pete Lancashire
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Re: 465B won't trigger
Lorn...
Ah, in time... about your writing:
Since between pins 2,3 and pin 1 there's only the base-emitter junction of the IC's input transistor... if the input is at 0,7V or so, it's expected that
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Fabio Trevisan
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
A quick search found this in a few
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Ed Breya
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
Dennis guesswith the pictures is correct.
It was made by Tek. Tek had (when I was there) part of it's model shop a
tool modification and manufacturing department. There was at one time a
catalog of
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Pete Lancashire
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Re: 465B won't trigger
hi Lorn,
On your previous writing:
Look carefully... it's more likely it's socketed than not.
Tek used a lot a kind of socket that is made of individual socket pins that go directly on the board...
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Fabio Trevisan
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#147209
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
Hi Larry,
I just uploaded some pictures of the tool. They are at
/g/TekScopes/album?id=45980
Dennis Tillman W7PF
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Dennis Tillman W7pF
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#147208
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
If I'm not mistaken, 1/2" 6061-T6 aluminum tubing with two slots cut in it 180-degrees apart would do just about as nicely as anything for that.
Thanks,
Barry - N4BUQ
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n4buq
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#147207
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
Yes, that BNC T-wrench on ebay is yet another form of installer. I have two different kinds from long ago, both commercial tools, but I have no ID or source info. One is made just like a nut driver,
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Ed Breya
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Re: 2445a wide trace until warmup
Hi Peter,
Besides the check to the power supply's capacitors, as Chuck noted and, as you will notice follwoing up the threads, is a kind of "standard" advice for all equipment of this vintage...
It
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Fabio Trevisan
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Re: BNC Installation Tool
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Larry McDavid wrote:
Here you go, works like a charm:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/260762732798
I bought this exact wrench couple of years ago and very happy with it.
> Someone
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Sergey Kubushyn
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