Yeah, OK, I wondered what you meant by "worse." Usually when checking a cap for ESR you're looking for a low resistance value and a higher resistance value is "worse" and indicates the cap is failing.

I'm far from the sharpest tool in the shed here on this stuff so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't resistance in parallel become lower with two resistors than just one? So, if you added ano

I tried one with Foxit 7.2.8.1124 and was able to print to CutePDF. PDF-1.7 format so older Adobe and non-Adobe PDF software can't open them. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

No, it's not you. I've found the same smell in the two items I've ordered too. It's pretty bad. John Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. From: Malcolm Hunter malcolm.r.hunter@... [TekScopes]

Oh, no, they're not mine. I just saw them pop up on Craigslist today. John To: TekScopes@... From: TekScopes@... Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:46:40 +0000 Subject: Re: [TekScopes]

Anyone in Charleston, SC area need some 453's? $150 for 5 of 'em. http://charleston.craigslist.org/ele/5417533394.html http://charleston.craigslist.org/ele/5417533394.html

There appear to be a few on eBay. Most are listed as service manuals even though they say "instruction manual" on the front. However, looking at listing pictures item 271658505408 looks like the same

Oh nice! I looked all over for something like this a while back but couldn't find it. $5.95 with Amazon Prime free shipping solved that problem. Thanks a million, Dennis! John To: TekScopes@yahoogroup

You've obviously never been hit with the $25,000 price tag for an aircraft microwave or coffee maker (or any other aircraft part for that matter.) $600 for an aircraft toilet seat doesn't seem like ve

My Type 184 has that same mains plug on the back. I was considering removing it and installing the newer connector like is commonly used on computers and newer Tek scopes. I don't really want to chop

I did just recently notice an old Tek scope on the WZUP radio station set on an old episode of Martin. I'm not sure how many here are familiar with this old sit-com that ran from 1992-1997. Never noti

Paul, thanks for this tip! That's the first install of modern snap caps I've seen that I thought looked presentable and reliable. My own 475 will likely need the filter caps replaced at some point but

I thought that too but there are artist's initials in the drawing. John Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. From: David davidwhess@... [TekScopes] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 10:50 To: Te

Must have been! That's hilarious! I didn't even notice that. There are artist initials in the drawing so it's not like it was printed backwards. John To: TekScopes@... From: TekScopes@yaho

I've seen a lot of manuals on eBay but this is a first! It might be worth the $15 to read it and then scan it in for the rest of us to read. "Tektronix and You" Item: 351627434756

I have two very lightly used P6149, 50Mhz, 90 degree BNC connector, probes that I was going to put up on eBay in the next few weeks. However, if anyone here is interested I'd much rather help out some

I just looked over that nicely-put-together list. I sure wish there was a better repository for this type of information for other scopes. I know there have been plenty of recapped scopes out there. I

It looks like there are two styles of these covers...not sure which one is the new and which is the old but on some 314's the front cover has metal hinges on the bottom and snaps on the top. On others

For sure! This is asking a bit...Does anyone have one of these that they could measure the panels of the shell and give me some dimensions? That would at least give me a place to start. John .

Yeah, I figured it was abused. The two bent knobs on the front were a pretty good indicator. I'm no expert but the heater looks to be the least fragile of everything in there. It looks similar to a ca