That is: the active ingredient is same - made by Wright (audio type and inventor? discoverer? of the phenom) in Canada. Tweek was first and invented that ™. They fought, and Caig was enlisted to catch

Hello, Great story about FAA/gov't mindset. Reminds me of the story I heard about a company upgrading their servers and the sales guy recommended using linux and saving a big bundle of cash and improv

Hello, I am Jim Reese from Ohio. My father (Gus Reese) and myself have been using, restoring, repairing Tek scopes and other test equipment since the early 70's. We have a large selection of scopes, p

For many years we used a contact cleaner "Cramolin Red" which used to be distributed by Caig. I went searching for new supplies and discovered that Cramolin is actually German and that Caig's Deoxit i

I have a Tek 2232 scope and am looking to add the RS232 plot output. Tek apparently offered a field installation kit (Option F12) however apparently neither the kits or tech support is available anymo

Hi Doug, There is a photo of a T912 on ebay at: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1622982027 The style is similar on all the T900 scopes. Blue plastic case, tube to upper right an

I've followed this group for quite a while: what an incredible wealth of knowledge the contributors have! Following this has been very educational for me. I now have my first request for help: Recentl

Everybody seems to have missed the entire point of the 465M, it was designed specifically for a MTTR of 30 minutes, and the modular design makes that possible. The MTTR of a regular 465 is measured in

I'm late with this, but I found over the years the most effective cleaner for goo-like substances (i.e., label adhesive) is mineral spirits. It rapidly dissolves gummy substances without attacking pai

All the talk of sockets prods me to talk of my one big socket story. Around 1979 we started using Apple II computers in Display Research, Tek Labs, as they were more versatile and cheaper than the usu

All I'm getting when I click on a thread is: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01a8' Object required: 'Session(...)' /host/tektronix/forum/GetMessage.asp, line 10

Anyone out there interested in adding some vintage Tek scopes (50x, 53x, 54x, 56x series) to their collections ? I've been offered a bunch, essentially for free. There are too many for my already well

I have a tek 2215 on which both traces will not go lower than about 1/3 rd from the top of the screen. any help is appreciated WDJ

the 2200 series is notorious for leads popping off the neck of the CRT (deflection plates) when the bottom board is flexed, the unit is shipped or when somebody works on the scope. the symptom is defl

Please read below folks. Can anyone help out Will with a schematic ? Please reply directly to him. Sorry Will but I don't have a schematic for the 400E. Phil >Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 19:26:16 -0700 >Fr

I'll start a new thread since the 465M thing is getting a little diluted with everything else ... I certainly haven't helped! Yes, the 434 X1/X10 lamps were the worst, requiring complete removal of th

This one has bothered me for a while. Sometimes the height will be about 50% of normal on either channel. Very intermittent. If I put the unit in chop and run the other channels position to very high

I have a 7403N , 7603, and a 7904. All my A and B plug-ins work just fine in all my frames. The 7D01 works just fine in the 7603 and 7904 frames but I get no display at all in the 7403N. Does anyone k

Hello all, I have a DP501 prescaler, plus a TR503 tracking generator for use with a 496 spectrum analyzer. I understand that a DC503A is one counter that will hook up to a DP501, and with logic signal

Dean; I became aware of the disappearing contact leaf problem during one of the teardowns to try to fix the intermittent. Thot I finally had it fixed then. Did'n't, & still don't. Cute li'l bugger tho