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AVGresponding:
Recently scored an 8840A for the equivalent of around US$110, with the AC-09 option. Sadly no GPIB option, but meh...



The Micronta you see was my pride and joy, bought it new in '87 or '88, cost £70 which was half a weeks wage at the time, and added the shrouded sockets in '95 or so... safety first! 8-)

The Black Star is a recent add also, and has some issues... if there's anyone out there with good knowledge of the error codes on these, please pm me...

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: ThickPhilM on July 21, 2019, 03:55:23 pm ---The Micronta you see was my pride and joy, bought it new in '87 or '88, cost £70 which was half a weeks wage at the time, and added the shrouded sockets in '95 or so... safety first! 8-)

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I lusted after that thing back in the day!

smmi:
hey Dave Taylor (if you're reading or see this)... you told me I needed to recap my 8060A, as I do plan to pass it onto my son...  ;)

I must lead a charmed life... 8060A (original owner) purchased new, in 1984 - used exclusively in my studio for cal, db and repairs... god bless audio-head meter engineers like yourself...

Meter specifics:
30-84 date code on the MAC @ U3...
serial number 3890330...
pcb revision H on the silkscreen... H-1 brown-tagged on the board...
also, C28, 10uF - is NOT populated on this board (per the later component list and schematic)...

Knowing that I needed to re-cap it, just because -  I popped open the meter tonight (after ordering the parts) to see how many caps have let loose (assuming time did the inevitable) - and I'll be darned... not a single cap has leaked... still looks like a virgin... how weird...

In 35 years, this meter has never even looked at me funny... impressive... heck of a job...

btw, if you want to measure a set of intact 35 year old caps to see how much they've wandered (as these haven't imploded)... send me a pm and I'll send 'em to you...

you the man, Dave... Thanks...

ogdento:
Hey Smmi that is great luck... they're much easier to re-cap when they haven't already made an awful mess!

I just opened up this guy and was excited to find my first ceramic MAC... aaand it's got capacitor puke on a few pins.  I hope I don't wreck it pulling it out.

smmi:
hey ogdento...  sometimes we get lucky... sometimes we don't...

that's a big cleanup job on that meter... thank goodness for modemhead's blog and dave taylor's comments up here - for me anyway... and geez what happened to the alt-power battery eliminator jack's input cover? - is that from the spewed electrolyte?... that big blob of green on the MAC certainly seemed telltale...

after I recap this 8060A, I'm going to tear into my 87 (a knock-around spare I've had for years) and clean the display's zebra strips so it gets dark-dark again - I hope that's all it is... 99-isopropyl is our friend... good luck...

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