ezdays Wrote:AF: neat scope. I wish I had that the last time I took a plane to a service call. I remember when scopes took two people to move around, and I thought I was lucky to have one that fit into a suitcase. When Tektronix came out with the first digital they were really expensive (well in excess of $1,000) and still a lot bigger than the one you have. Let us know how well it works, I just might buy one at the price they're selling at.

AF350 Wrote:

ezdays Wrote:AF: neat scope. I wish I had that the last time I took a plane to a service call. I remember when scopes took two people to move around, and I thought I was lucky to have one that fit into a suitcase. When Tektronix came out with the first digital they were really expensive (well in excess of $1,000) and still a lot bigger than the one you have. Let us know how well it works, I just might buy one at the price they're selling at.

Ezdays,

I will have to bake(opps should be brake not bake ) something so I can trouble shoot it with new scope Quite a difference between the old vacuum tube clunker with the olive drab case and my first modern O' scope. I have used a few scopes in school, college and on the job. At one job I had the supervisor hid all the DMMs (digital multimeters) and made use trouble shoot all day with just an O'scope I learned that a picture is worth a 1000 words as a voltage reading does not tell the whole story of what is going on in a circuit especially when dealing with very small signals in the mV and uA ranges. RF shielding of the circuit is a must to keep those signals from being lost in all the "noise".

I used to have a very basic test bench and I am trying to build up a collection of test equipment for electronics and even for some basic toy train maintenance(like E-unit, and other ancient electro/mechanical parts). I have 3 or 4 DMMS , a function generator it has sine, saw tooth, and square wave out puts, 2 Heath kit power supplies, half a dozen soldering irons and a soldering station(variable temp).

ezdays Wrote:I sold some test equipment on eBay about a year ago that included a Heath signal generator, a Heath DMM (bench) and one other that I can't remember what it was. Let's face it, if you can't even remember what you sold, you didn't need it in the first place. Yeah, I still use the old vacuum tube scope once in a while and I still have a number of DMM's, and somewhere plus 4 or 5 solder stations. I did save some equipment when we sold our business, but I can't see hanging on to some of it if I haven't used something in the past 14 years. Just like that old car you have stowed in the barn that keeps increasing in value as the years go by, I think some vintage test equipment does the same...I really hope so...

Running Bear Wrote:I still remember those old oscilloscopes that were the size of a medium sized water heater and about as heavy as one when it was full. I can still remember getting lit up by one too!

I have a pic or two that RB may find of interest, it is my new Digital storage O' siliscope I got from MPJA (marlin p. Jones assoc.) an electronic supplier catalog. Faraway found it a bit cheaper on amazon.

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I'd like to know where you found that.