[Boatanchors] Repair of Tektronix 2335

[Randy Berry]

It sounds to me like you've been robbed. $150 bucks and it's not even
repaired? $20 or so for a look-over service fee is adequate not $150.
Big red flag for Transcat.

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:38 AM, WA5CAB--- via Boatanchors
<boatanchors at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> I have a Tek 2335 that has given good service for years and is still
> perfectly adequate for anything that I need it to do.  Two weeks ago it was
> working fine.  I used it to fine tune a vibrator for a TBY 4V supply, and
> proceeded to close up the vibrator.  When I went to run a final test on the repaired
> vibrator, the 'scope had no trace.
>
> I don't have the service manual on it, nor the time to fix it myself.  So I
> did a little searching and came up with a company named Transcat whose
> local office is less that a mile from my house.  Their ads claimed that they
> worked on Tektronix equipment.  So I took the unit to them some time ago, and
> they accepted it.  Several telephone calls later, I get an email from them
> saying that the instrument is obsolete, unrepairable, and if I pay them
> $150.00 I can have it back unrepaired.
>
> Does anyone know of anyone preferably in the Houston area but lacking that
> anywhere in the USA who will actually fix it?
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
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