I came home one day to find *that* smell in my workshop. It turned out to be my HP 3325B. It had been on for ages and it had also been a warm day. I looked at the back and found the intake completely blocked up with dust.
It seems to still work, but I need to open it right up and check it out properly. So, yes, in conclusion air flow is important! Jim 2009/5/22 Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com> > > A8? Reference buffer? Gee, I thought was the electrostatic dust magnet ;-) > That puppy can grow more fuzz than a sheepdog. In all the machines I > have worked on, it was utterly disgusting. > > BTW, the best way to locate where to drill the access hole for the > oscillator tuning pot is to look on the underside of the top cover. The > oscillator compartment will be outlined in dust. Measure the tuning screw > location from the sides of the oscillator compartment with calipers and > transfer the measurements to the dust outline... it's more accurate than > measuring from the edges of the box. > > ---------------------------------------- > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. > > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009 > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
