Hello all,
First of all, thank you to everyone taking their time to help me. I've always dabbled in electronics but only recently starting diving deeper - which was triggered by the community here and a newly sparked interested from Dave's videos.
Anyways, I picked up this Hitachi v212 oscilloscope (first scope - analog as recommended by Dave) from an auction a few hours away. I got it with a function generator for $31.00 - I figured it was worth it to drive and get it at that price.
To cut to the chase, the trace rotation is off - it stays too far rotated left (trace heading to upper right edge of tube). At first I found the trace rotation pot had come un-soldered on one of the pins (probably from someone jamming too hard on the pot). I resoldered the joint, checked for shorts, etc. Now I can adjust the trace rotation but not to the place it should be. Its like I'm able to adjust it within a range but the range is off in the first place?
I started to take it apart, looking for any other obvious damage - so far the back of this board (as seen in picture below) seems awfully crusty.. problem is the whole board has that. Old age? I've done some searching online but have yet to find a more obvious issue.. I did gently attempt to rotate the tube as one post stated some older scopes had this option but I couldn't seem to rotate mine. At least not with the force I was comfortable exerting on it.. I'm hoping it isn't a faulty amplifier as I read in one post..
I have checked for magnets around it and that doesn't seem to be the issue. I stopped digging deeper into it so I could hook it up enough to get pictures of this issue for this post. Please disregard how rough it looks at the moment.. :/ The picture with the solid line as the trace show the rotation pot turned all the way the right - this is as close as adjusting the potentiometer will get it.
Again, I appreciate all of your help. I also have the service manual but aside from the obvious (adjust trace rotation) I haven't found much more related to the trace rotation in the manual. Not to mention, I'm new to reading circuits and this scope goes a bit over my head.
I really hope I'm just missing something obvious.
-Adam
Note: I can submit links to higher quality pictures if needed