Via EBay, I bought a somewhat beat-up (well aren't we all) 2445b from a wonderful retired tech in Milwaukee. Got it home and after reading the operating manual cover-cover, gathered the nerve to fire

I'm thinking about opening up my new 2445B and having a look at the capacitors. Guessing that I'll want to replace the four SMDs on A-5, i started to worry about getting them off. I have pretty good e

Many thanks for the advice on how to remove the caps. It had never occurred to me to add solder. The Weller WTCP has three temperature range tips. I'm sure 600f doesn't make sense, but would you use 7

Thanks David, I guess I imagined that the lead-free madness had started by 1990. I don't have a 600F tip, but Mouser has them, so .... john [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Hi Tom, I like this better because it doesn't strain the tab you're not trying to unsolder. I've gone through my junk and the only thing I can find from the early '90s is a Sun IPX motherboard. I repl

Thanks again, Tom I try to buy everything I can from Mouser, after all, they gave me a very nice catalog, and they fill my little, probably at a loss, orders without a whimper. They really are heroes.

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Hi Mitch, I don't do much rework, and not because I get stuff right the first time either. Getting the Dallas NVRAM off though is a challenge because it has to survive the removal. Can you remember ap

I apologize for developing my line of attack on fixing the things that could go wrong on my 2445B in public, but you guys have provided really useful ideas on dealing with the cap issues. The NVRAM lo

Thanks you so much, Mitch I think I've figured out what I'm going to do - still a couple of loose ends. john

I checked a couple of the Exer locations on my new-to-me 2445B. on Exer 05 I saw Hours On: 58989 ON/OFF 790ii. Sounds like they left it on most of the time. or ?? on Exer 02 I saw 00 00AB. It didn't c

Hi, I didn't know what to expect on Exer 02. now that I know that it shows 2 bytes per address and after a lot of experimental button pushing, I found the two that I needed to step through the RAM, So

Chuck, I have both the operating manual and the service manual for the 2445B. I confess to not having divined the right button to push to step through the cal memory. And I suppose in my haste to see

Thanks much Chuck, you are right, i hadn't found it and it confirms what I'd discovered by trial and error. I have graphic scans of the manuals which sort of thwarts doing text searches. Thanks again,

I suppose I will soon learn what a naive question this but here goes anyway. I'm setting up a shop, bought a 2445b and am prepping to do the usual things to it. Now, I see that Tektronix built a line

Well Stefan, I sensed it was nuts, but then these things are so slick and dare I say, tidy. This stuff can be pretty cheap on Ebay. It's a little hard to think standalone could be less expensive, but

Thanks much for this Dennis, and to the others that confirmed that filling the holes in TM506's might become an obsession. Elderly woman asks her psychiatrist "Doctor, do you like pancakes?" "Yes. In

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While we're on this subject, should the tip of a desoldering -suction tool be tinned? I bought one of the Chinese ones. It works wonderfully well but the manual is in what looks like Chinese instead o

Sockets?