Hi everyone, About 20 years ago I needed to replace a step recovery diode in a piece of (non Tek) equipment. I had to test an assortment of diodes for this function and managed to achieve it with a pu

good morning to the whole group I ask for help because I'm not understanding anything anymore .... I have a pg506a that makes a strange defect I turn on the pg506a and connect an oscilloscope (I have

Hi, Need to give my 7003 and some plug ins a good going over. Is there anyone in the Cotswolds area (U.K.) who has an extender that I could borrow for a couple of days ? TIA Robin Birch

Just got a nice looking 7904A. Plugged it in with sufficient fear and trembling, exc. for noisy controls, seemed to work OK. Got trace and sweep and expanded sweep. Didnt put any signals into it. I di

Very silly question but can anyone tell me which way the impeller type fan in a 2465 is mean to rotate; I have rewound mine and realise I don't know this vital piece of information for phasing the coi

my Tektronix 496 Spectrumanalyzer suddenly doesn't make any digitally work, some key-LED's light and a very slow analog sweep can be seen on the screen. According to the servicmanual i first tested th

I hope this is the right forum for this message. If not, I apologize and please point me in the right direction. I have been acquiring tek equipment for some years but it's time for me to pass these a

I can obtain a Tek 453A locally, but it doesn't show a trace, so I have no idea yet what is broken. What would be a good offer for it, and is it usually repairable? - Maurice

Fellow techies, I'm pleased to announce I've fixed the problems with the Blue Feather file library. It's back up and operating as normal. For those who have requested the login info, please continue t

Since Sunday when I picked up 106 of Peter Keller's books we have spoken by phone. During our conversation Peter mentioned a few things I thought I should pass along since I thought he may have reache

I raised a 549 from the grave and it is now working well, except for the memory function. The storage board is of version 'E' (actually indicated as HE, what must stand for Hoogeveen, The Netherlands

Hello, Could anybody please advise me if the TEK 1A7 and 1A7A plugins are similar in design and could you use the 1A7 manual to fault find the 1A7A plugin? If not, is there a downloadable version of t

Hi all, I have a PG502 TM500 module here I'm poking away at, and although the capacitors all test better than the datasheets in all respects (Those Vishay 30D caps are pretty good!), some of the old b

Our stuff season is getting its last additions today, there's still one hard to find 149-0035-00 fan motor (465/475), some blue CRT filters, and some interesting Tek internal bits including a 2335/6/7

Gentlemen, My 465 has a stuck coupling switch - it developed during a project that I am working on. It's stuck in the AC position. I don't want to force it. I haven't taken the unit apart yet but with

Hi all, I just picked up a 067-0508-00 Amplitude Calibrator and I believe it was rack mounted. It doesn't have the outer cabinet. I don't know much about the interchangeability of mounting and cabinet

I have been recovering a set of Tektronix 4041 tapes that I received from Stan Griffiths in 2000 in a box with Tektronix 4051 tapes. The 4041 tapes included EZ-TEST Volume 1 and Volume 2, but the firs

There have been quite some discussions about missing posts regarding the fabulous Tek 500 series...https://groups.io/g/TekScopes/message/175302 ... to show that the matter is still alive, here a recen

Bonjour a tous: Have some 2465B that are out of VCAL only or HCAL perhaps a few percent. Been a while since did cals on these. Do it with case closed after warmup 30 min to stabilize? Are the only CAL

Hi Simon, Yes, I got your info and added you to the list. I will keep everyone posted via TekScopes on what comes next once the orders stop, Peter runs out of books, or I stop accepting orders in abou