Hello everyone! Looks like this'll be my first post on this place, hopefully not the last.
Here's the low-down, I got actually 2 heathkit oscilloscopes a while ago from the trash, from what I can tell the particular one is the older of the two. It dates from around 75, while the other dates from around 1980. I only took pictures of the internals of this one unfortunately.
I was only able to test the older of the two, the newer one is missing it's mains cord, and I will 100% need help identifying what kind of cord I need to buy down the line. The older one did turn on, though, the only thing that came up on the screen was what looked like a very blurry, flipped over, left half of a bell curve. I twisted *ALL* the nobs, and none of them made a difference. Most likely broken.
So today is the day I decided to pop it open and start de-soldering some things. Before that, I have a question as to what the hell these things on the side are. Are these some bigass capacitors? I notice that the metal bits don't actually connect to each-other! This looks very similar to the layers in a ceramic capacitor, just in a much larger and much more low-tech format! (IMG1.jpg)
So, I de-soldered the big cap that you can also see just to the right of the transformer in IMG1.jpg, I also got to remove a resistor in that process as well. It was quite well out of spec, 47k with a 10% tolerance, it was at 63k. More than likely caused by my hamfisted soldering with my fixed heat 40w Weller. (Massacre me) Anyway, i got the big cap out, and using the capacitance tester built into my Fluke 115 I was able to find that pretty much all of the caps in this were off. the two 100uF leads were at 150ish-uF, the 300uF cap was all the way up at 590uF (though, it seems unlikely a cap would GAIN capacitance over time?) so, this will need to be replaced. Suffice to say, googling 25-228 got me diddly squat, so I'll need to find some other replacement option. Any advice on what to replace it with? (cap pictured in IMG2.jpg)
If you have any questions or general advice, please, let me hear it. Hopefully I got this post in the right spot.
Thanks.