[Boatanchors] [Hallicrafters] Fluke 6060a/an or HP 8640b ?

[Bob, W5UQ]

mine is on the frequency band change.... it slips and the ranges get off.
Bob  W5UQ

Michael OBrien wrote:
> Hi All
> How can you tell if your gears are broken while using it and how far do you have to open it up to see it
>
> Mike
>
> --- On Sun, 11/29/09, Greg Werstiuk <greg_werstiuk at msn.com> wrote:
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>> From: Greg Werstiuk <greg_werstiuk at msn.com>
>> Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] [Hallicrafters] Fluke 6060a/an or HP 8640b ?
>> To: W4AWM at aol.com, mikobrien at yahoo.com, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009, 3:00 PM
>> Per the last update on the HP/Agilent
>> test equipment group, Greg Bowne in
>> Seattle has completed tooling most of the gears and has run
>> pre-production
>> units.
>>
>> He is waiting on feedback from someone who is installing
>> and testing them
>> and then will run them in volume.  Once they have been
>> run, he will offer
>> them for sale.
>>
>> As I recall, he is addressing everything except one
>> specialty angle gear.
>>
>> -
>> Greg
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> On Behalf Of W4AWM at aol.com
>> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 8:56 AM
>> To: mikobrien at yahoo.com;
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>> Cc: national at mailman.qth.net;
>> hammarlund at mailman.qth.net;
>> hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] [Hallicrafters] Fluke 6060a/an
>> or HP 8640b ?
>>
>> I have never worked with the Fluke, so I am not in a
>> popsition to comment  
>> on that one.  There is one main problem with the HP,
>> and that is the  
>> failure of one of the drive gears. HP parts replacements
>> are no longer
>> available  
>> for that gear as I understand it, but the gear may be found
>> from another  
>> source. Someone listed that source on one of the reflectors
>> recently.
>> Possibly 
>>  that person could list it again. This time, I will copy it
>> which I did not 
>> do  the first time.  Also, someone had proposed
>> to reproduce the gear if 
>> there  was enough interest. I don't know what happened
>> with that.
>>  
>> I personally have a pair of 8640s and one has the gear
>> problem. I find that 
>>  if I am careful with it, it works. I tend to leave that
>> one on one band 
>> and use  the other one for moving around.  If I
>> can get those gears
>> somewhere, 
>> I'll  replace both of them.
>>  
>> Otherwise, I think the 8640 is a fine piece of gear. Not a
>> boatanchor tube  
>> wisem but certainly heavy enough to be used as one!
>>  
>> 73,
>>  
>> John,  W4AWM
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