Great! It would be a shame if they had ended up being thrown away. Bob

Get a good vacuum heat gun type de-soldering tool. I got one recently as I also do a lot of PC motherboard and LCD monitor repair which are mostly hit by the capacitor plague problem. The gun works a

Although they are different, would those fiberglass rods so common in 7K plugins work? Bob

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/ele/3982309905.html no connection, just happend to be in town. Bob

yes, please end it. Bob

155-0080-00 U450 for older 7603s. they are available for a price. So depends on what he offers. Bob

Worked for me Bob

Unfortunately these wonder boards are not a very good substitute for a curve tracer. I have one of these boards and it sort of works. I just fixed a 485 that had a bad transistor in the intensity cont

Yes, get in the company. Then you can get to know people in that company. It worked for me. Bob

As a former manager, I agree with Dan. It's also how you say it. Personally I don't care how you learned what you know, but what you know and can do. My hiring interviews were mainly around skill, exp

Try Qservice http://www.qservice.tv/vpasp/shopexd.asp?id=1791&bc=no

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/ele/3922094710.html What a great day for somebody in the SF bay area. sigh, not me. Bob

OK, parts on order. will see how they fit. Bob

Even using the 1 meg input, doesn't that leave the 150V SMD resistors falling short? Bob

On page 1-2 of the manual it says 50 ohm over 50V gets disconnected but then shows 500V AC P-P. So what is the maximum input? Note: The SMD resistors I am looking at show 150V max or 200Max. Bob

The spacing is so close the leads are less than 1/8 inch. However this would be Ok for SMD soldering. Also these low wattage devices are like a kind of indirect safety fuse to protect against input ov

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/ele/3922816469.html wish I were closer

SMDs might work. I would need to put something underneath one them (R18) as it would be close to a surface ground plane edge. That resistor also has a 1.8pf cap in parallel. Maybe the cap body could l

Can carbon film resistors be substituted for carbon comp? I have a 485 with input issues due to burnt resistors, both 1/8 watt. (68 ohm R14 and 62 ohm R18). The carbon film seem to be more available i

humor: an attempt to get a UHF connector probe to fit? Bob