Man you're lucky, wish I could find a scope to work on for $50
Hell I wish I could find ANYTHING to work on for free, that's not a blackbox like a hardrive or motherboard, or impossible to source chips, etc.
I live in Newfoundland, no one fixes anything. Soon I want to try some CRT TV repairs before they are all gone too. But even the free ones people give away usually work, and I'd have to through a glass of salty water on it to do mystery damage.
In the meantime I do have scopes to repair. I needs a new transformer or PSU I'd like to make. Another might have problems, very very soon I'll be trying that 1 again. My 2 working scopes could use a tune up. 1 is a black box of chips tho.