Nice.
You have one of the classic Teks, look after it.
Always use only enough trace brightness (Intensity) to do the job at hand and then adjust out of Focus if there is more to do.
This will preserve the CRT for a long time.
But do remember to use her every month or two to keep her in good shape.
Thanks, yep it's in a good home now. I'll give it a clean and do some calibration at some stage, but first I have to have something to calibrate against.
I quite like my 465M, the crt draws a nice sharp trace. No fans, little weight, it just works.
So it was the cap I suggested you look at?
Yep, the cap is the only thing I've changed, hasn't blown a fuse yet.
It needs a bit more work though, still have to replace that burnt resistor. Also, the red 'VAR' on the right side has been pushed in (the metal plate it attaches to inside is bent), it must have been dropped at some point. It's missing a bunch of little things too, rubber foot, plastic cover on handle pivot and even some screws that hold the emi shield.
The horizontal TIME/DIV knob is a little intermittent too, sometimes when turning it the waveform is shown at the wrong frequency. For example I think it selects 5uS divisions when the knob is set to 1uS, but then you turn it again and it goes back to being correct. I need more time to test it further though.
Also, it's got 'VP-24' written on the top, could mean anything, but being the military model I like to think it was used by the
US Navy VP-24.