[Boatanchors] Question For Today

[Geoff]

I started small with the test equipment inventory with mil surplus back in 
the 60's. I never fell into to the low end stuff trap found in many TV/radio 
shops as coming from the USN to National gave be a strong appreciation for 
quality.

As my needs grew in the late 80's I started adding high quality from HP, 
TEK, GR, Boonton, etc and overhauled each piece before adding it to the 
bench.
I now have a decent vintage TE bench for working on boatanchors modeled on 
what I used at National in the Service Dept and R&D. Missing are the TEK 
heat generators and HP-524 counter!

I also have a more modern bench with SS gear to work on modern rigs and 
fairly complicated oldies such as the HRO-500, RA-17, etc.

What I have noticed is that once overhauled the vintage TE is solid, but the 
SS stuff has reached the point of a high rate of cap failures and out of 
tolerance resistors as well as several "should not occurs" with HP sig gens 
and spectrum analyzers in particular.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David C. Hallam" <dhallam at knology.net>
To: "Boatanchors-qth" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 6:53 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Question For Today


> Do you spend more time repairing your boatanchor test equipment or
> repairing your boatanchor gear?  It seems that every time I start to
> work on a piece of gear, I have to work on the test equipment first.
>
> Right now I have the following not working properly;
> HP 410B VTVM
> HP410C VTVM
> Eico 369 Sweep Generator
> and who knows what else.
>
> David
> KW4DH
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