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bd139:
Yeah exactly. They are latching changeover switches so the switch travel and alignment has to be spot on otherwise they'll stick out too far or be impossible to unlatch.

Credit to VK3BHR here though. It's their design. I'm just repackaging it as I wasn't happy with the board layout, enclosure and lack of gerbers etc. Which is fine as they nicked it off AADE's manual :D

PedroDaGr8:
Picked up a for parts/as is BK 9310 on eBay, for dirt cheap. Mainly because I wanted a three channel supply, plus I wanted a new project to try to fix. As they indicated a single channel worked, I figured  there was a decent chance to revive the device. While they wanted way too much, I was able negotiate them down to $150 shipped. Received the item and while notably damaged (stand was cracked, knob and bezel missing, and dirty as all get out) after resetting the settings it worked perfectly. A new stand, bezel, and knob set me back $35 plus shipping and now it looks great! Well worth the $180 that I paid IMHO.

Next upgrades, routing sense and power out the back and adding a bluetooth TTL bridge to allow for wireless control.

Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: PedroDaGr8 on May 07, 2018, 04:20:51 pm ---Picked up a for parts/as is BK 9310 on eBay, for dirt cheap. Mainly because I wanted a three channel supply, plus I wanted a new project to try to fix. As they indicated a single channel worked, I figured  there was a decent chance to revive the device. While they wanted way too much, I was able negotiate them down to $150 shipped. Received the item and while notably damaged (stand was cracked, knob and bezel missing, and dirty as all get out) after resetting the settings it worked perfectly. A new stand, bezel, and knob set me back $35 plus shipping and now it looks great! Well worth the $180 that I paid IMHO.

Next upgrades, routing sense and power out the back and adding a bluetooth TTL bridge to allow for wireless control.

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Nice score! Does BK sell spare parts like that?

PedroDaGr8:

--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on May 07, 2018, 05:02:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: PedroDaGr8 on May 07, 2018, 04:20:51 pm ---Picked up a for parts/as is BK 9310 on eBay, for dirt cheap. Mainly because I wanted a three channel supply, plus I wanted a new project to try to fix. As they indicated a single channel worked, I figured  there was a decent chance to revive the device. While they wanted way too much, I was able negotiate them down to $150 shipped. Received the item and while notably damaged (stand was cracked, knob and bezel missing, and dirty as all get out) after resetting the settings it worked perfectly. A new stand, bezel, and knob set me back $35 plus shipping and now it looks great! Well worth the $180 that I paid IMHO.

Next upgrades, routing sense and power out the back and adding a bluetooth TTL bridge to allow for wireless control.

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Nice score! Does BK sell spare parts like that?

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They do! That's where I got my parts from. In fact, the purchasing agent was VERY helpful considering I didn't even know the actual part numbers and they had to go by rough descriptions. For the stand, I ended up sending a picture so they could know exactly what I meant, turns out they call it a handle. ;D  Considering this instrument has been End-Of-Life'd (replaced long ago by the 9130B), I expected to be SOL on parts. So the fact that they even had everything in stock was a nice surprise.

Honestly, even better, the prices were very reasonable in my opinion. The tilt stand/handle was $20, the blue rubber bezel/surround was $10, and the knob was $3. The only downside was shipping added on another $10, but it was FedEx and only took a couple days to get to my place.

 

GerryBags:
Wow, well done B&K! If only more companies had that attitude to keeping their OOP gear in service. Especially with TE, these companies must accumulate masses of parts for those models which could still make them money if they didn't just offload them in job lots, and the sort of people who are going to be trying to fix up old gear are highly unlikely to be in a position to buy a new model instead. It's a different market that could be served by a simple warehousing operation from anywhere.

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