Mark,
This is completely off topic but I thought you might be interested.
I have a Tek 511-AD (Tek's first model) vintage somewhere around 1950 
or 51 that I managed to rescue from an outside pile of electrical 
scrap at McConnel AFB in Wichita Ks in 1971.
It had been laying outside in the rain and snow for at least 3 months 
if not longer.

I replaced the smashed CRT and made new shafts for a couple of 
control pots that had been sheared off when it was tossed of the 
truck and moved with the other trash in the bucket of a front end 
loader.  I went to the Base Precision Measuring Equipment Lab and 
asked if they still had the manual and they did.  It was they who 
surplussed the scope.  They didn't need the manual any more so they 
tossed it as well (to me).

I brought the caps up slow with a variac and it fired right up.

I can't think of a much better testimonial for a quality piece of 
equipment.  During that time period they used nothing but the best 
components and if no one made one good enough then they made it themselves.

By the way, it still works.

Cecil


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