On 03/09/2016 11:01 AM, Cecil Thomas wrote: > 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 Cecil,
That's pretty cool! I'm more of a solid state kinda guy, though I did work on a few tube radios when I was a Comm/Nav avionics tech in the USAF before I got commissioned and got my wings. Our shop in the maintenance squadron had only Tek scopes in it, and a bunch of them at that. Most of the scope gear I futz around with now is from the 70's through early 90's. Troubleshooting electronic problems is good for the mind. ;-) Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785111&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
