I spotted this one in a local ads, the seller had no idea what he was selling or is it working. I decided to take the risk, it was cheap anyway.
Well on my surprise it works quite nice. However it came much dirty so lets make it better:
When you open it you easily realize there isnt much inside. But what is there is built with great attention to details and all screws nicely secured. The big air capacitor determines the frequency and features a small capacitor for calibration. Rest of calibration is done on small mainboard where every pot has its function on the silkscreen (oh good old times!)
The panel was quite dirty i guess the instrument was used by smoker who breathe on it cigarette fumes or something else, this rag is from single pass!!!
The banana sockets were very bad so i replaced them with new and gave the knobs a nice long ultrasonic bath. Later i repaired the knobs pointers with black sharpie.
After assembly looks nice, works nice (actual maximal frequency is 1.5 MHz)! and regarding the precision, 100 KHz on the analog display with give out 100.10 MHz out, amazing precision after these years.
Actually i dont need it, but could not resist to have it on my bench. This old equipment has something that todays Rigol or Atten will never have, a soul!
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