[Boatanchors] Question For Today

[Pete Lancashire]

There there are some (one?) where the test equipment is the boat anchor. I
enjoy collection, restoring, and using such 'junk' :-).

-pete

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Geoff <geoffrey at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
> 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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