UK - Donate Oscilloscope

[Aodhan145]

Hi,
  I'm sorry for you to see another "Donate Oscilloscope" thread. I am 14, I live in the North of Ireland inside the UK. I got into electronics about a year ago. I have been trying to build up a bench lately but I can't afford an Oscilloscope. I have had problems with a lot of my projects I have built up and I have no oscilloscope to troubleshoot them with so it would be a great help. If anybody in the UK has an old oscilloscope that they are willing to donate, I don't really care what kind it is Digital Analogue or PC based. I can offer £20 for it and I will cover the postage using the rest of my savings.
Thanks in advance

[Howardlong]

Aodhan

Can you give us some details of the problems you've had and why you think an oscilloscope will resolve them for you?

The reason I ask is that when donating equipment that has value, we like to know it's going to be used for the right reasons, and not end up on ebay next week. Regretfully I, and I am sure other well-meaning folk have been victim to this in the past.

[Aodhan145]

I understand your concern. I was given a lend of an oscilloscope recently from a local collage. I took the time to learn how to use the oscilloscope. It was very useful in troubleshooting my Zero Crossing Detector that I built recently, if you are unfamiliar with a zero crossing detector it detects the zero part of an AC phase and gives a pulse on the low voltage side. I connected it up to my arduino to find out it wasn't working I used the scope to probe around. I was eventually able to work out the problem was with the pull up resistor and I soldered a new one and it worked. I do think an oscilloscope would have been useful in fixing some of my older projects.

[Aodhan145]

shameless bump

[Towger]

Are you still looking. I have a Tek 2235 sitting here gathering dust. It works fine, but a little TLC cleaning one or two of the switches and longer term new caps might not go a miss.