[Milsurplus] "Milking The Controls"

[Peter Gottlieb]

I have a couple 7000 series mainframes and a pile of plug-ins, a couple 
of 485's and a 2246 - all acquired surplus from DRMO.  All were marked 
as condition code "A" yet all required repair to function.  I cleaned 
most of the switches (very time consuming and delicate work, to say the 
least) with 100% isopropyl or TF and except for the unavailability of 
certain parts these are all great scopes.  I had more but gave most of 
them away over time.

Peter



Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
> 
> There is a wonderful story about the time "Dave and Bill" came through 
> the HP Loveland division line and found that all the scopes on the line 
> were Tek scopes ("because they trigger right"). The story goes that the 
> result was that *alll* the Tek scopes were gone by the end of the week.
> 
> There are pretty good examples of both HP and Tek products in the 
> surplus channel. I'm not at all sure which one has actually passed the 
> test of time better. No matter who made them ( including Dumont ) the 
> switches seem to be a weak point.  Certainly anything related to the Tek 
> 7000 or worse yet the 5000 series is suspect in this respect ...
> 
>     Enjoy!
> 
>         Bob Camp
>         KB8TQ
> 


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