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PaulAm:
I'm not sure this qualifies as a score, but I just picked up a Tektronix 555 dual beam scope, complete, for free.  I'm not a big fan of the 500 series and stay away from vacuum tube equipment, but this was something special.

I don't know of any other scope that had to separate the power supply from the main unit to keep the pieces to a reasonable weight.  It also consumes > 1KW so I can use it to heat my shop in the winter.  And it has all that lovely ceramic strip construction.  Now I'll have to see if I can find one of those SA plugins for it.  Clearly a project for next winter

Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: PaulAm on May 06, 2020, 07:57:56 pm ---I'm not sure this qualifies as a score, but I just picked up a Tektronix 555 dual beam scope, complete, for free.  I'm not a big fan of the 500 series and stay away from vacuum tube equipment, but this was something special.

I don't know of any other scope that had to separate the power supply from the main unit to keep the pieces to a reasonable weight.  It also consumes > 1KW so I can use it to heat my shop in the winter.  And it has all that lovely ceramic strip construction.  Now I'll have to see if I can find one of those SA plugins for it.  Clearly a project for next winter

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Nice score - that's one on my list for some day.  There were a few Teks of that era that had separate power supplies - the 551 is another just off the top of my head.  Congrats on your new beast; take good care of it!

-Pat

cdev:
OMG, thats a hell of a good deal for that!


--- Quote from: najrao on November 26, 2019, 08:33:55 am ---I had to pay a princely 250 rupees ($3.45) for this gem. Just needed going over with isopropyl to make it gleam. Perfect!

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Please stay safe!

0culus:

--- Quote from: PaulAm on May 06, 2020, 07:57:56 pm ---I'm not sure this qualifies as a score, but I just picked up a Tektronix 555 dual beam scope, complete, for free.  I'm not a big fan of the 500 series and stay away from vacuum tube equipment, but this was something special.

I don't know of any other scope that had to separate the power supply from the main unit to keep the pieces to a reasonable weight.  It also consumes > 1KW so I can use it to heat my shop in the winter.  And it has all that lovely ceramic strip construction.  Now I'll have to see if I can find one of those SA plugins for it.  Clearly a project for next winter

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PaulAm:
I am NOT hauling it out to take a pic of the insides  :-DD

This thing has something like 110 vacuum tubes.

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