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

[Michael OBrien]

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:

> 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
> 
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> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 8:56 AM
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> 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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