In a way, no, you don't encourage it.  You didn't buy the connectors with a "ships in 10 days", which gives someone time to go out and *kill* the elephant.  Those connectors are going to be there

Hello; I'm doing a spot of clean up and downsizing and found a couple of Tektronix plug in extenders. - 013-0055-00 Quantity 2 according to TekWiki 530, 540, 550, 580 scopes - 013-013 (new #

Yes, Bob, I would go for one if you are willing to ship it for me. AZ 86351 KO3Y Kevin

Chuck Harris's advice is spot on, but the plastic collet around the motor shaft that attaches to the fan is old and very brittle, and it breaks easily. When mine broke, I ripped out motor and fan, and

Well, if you ever want to see Maine, bring your calibration stuff and I’ll give you a place to stay. I live on a lake! larry

Hi All,    Thanks for the advice.   Yes, it appears the Amphenol connectos in the 500 series are series 26 connectors.   Probably the *easiest* thing for me to do is to keep using them.   

Hi, I am Dutch, but I live in Spain.

I wish you were not in Europe (where?) as I’d like to calibrate my2445B and 2465DBM. larry

Hi all, since my number of 2465xx scopes is growing, and I just love to repair, restore and calibrate these, I now want to buy a SG-503 leveled generator. Being retired my budget is not huge, and

I would pretty much have to look at the actual connector to tell whether that is a trick of lighting or signs of damage. There are no "bendies" on the leaves of a GR-874 inner conductor, just on the

I did something similar back in 82 after thieves stole the radio from my 320 BMW....stuff originally used was from Haltek eons ago. I used (in fact just replaced the female 22pin card edge connector).

Yes, and sometimes the fake markings are better than the real parts.  Back in the late nineties a company I was working for bought a mixed lot of HEXFETS (as I recall) that we desperately needed from

FWIW a description of the 874 appeared in the General Radio Experimenter https://www.ietlabs.com/pdf/GR_Experimenters/1948/GenRad_Experimenter_Oct_1948.pdf The patent appears

Further to this- I think the ones Tek used are the 26-4100 series-the ones I have that are slightly different are the 26-4200 series. DaveB, NZ

IIRC, these are amphenol blue ribbon connectors.  You might want to consider centronics style connectors, which may work.  BTW: I think that old HP equipment used them too, so depending on the age

Yes and yes. Amphenol make 'em. Probably others as well? A local R/T manufacturer (Tait Electronics) used the red range a lot in their early VHF product so the radio could be just unplugged from the

Cinch card edge connectors with 0.156 or so spacing? I have some of those in widths like 8 10 12 pairs of contacts. Can you rig a card edge to stick out of your racks/boxes?

Hi all,    I have another slightly off topic but on topic question, again related to my car!  You can tell I've been working on and playing with my '67 Mustang convertible lately, and btw after

Bob (LA) if you really want it, my other Daughter has family down there and goes occasionally. Bob Anyone else also interested?

Come to think of it, my friend W6TOM in your area has helped me similarly in the past.  Maybe you can connect with him and see if he is planning to go to the hamfest Saturday in Santa Barbara.  If