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grizewald:
Greetings TEA folk!

It's been far too long since I was here last, mainly due to a serious lack of time due to work pressure. As I'm on a nice long vacation from work at the moment, I spent a few days catching up on things here (as best one can for 2000+ pages) and have thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Despite having been pretty much overloaded with work, my GAS problem has continued unabated.

The highlight of my acquisitions since I was last posting here has to be the Datron 1071.

I found this rather sad looking specimen below on eBay and before I knew it, BCCS hit and it was on the way to me.



The rear view contributed to the urgent need to hit the "Buy" button as it showed a fully optioned machine!



I have no idea how the front panel had ended up the way it was. I suspect the use of acetone or IPA. Thankfully, the discolouration was finally solved with the application of some magical "Renaissance Wax". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Wax)



A full teardown and more pictures will follow after I've had some brunch.

Anyway, it's nice to be back and to see that you are all just as certifiable as ever!

edit: images shrunk to 500 pixel previews - clickable for full size

bd139:

--- Quote from: med6753 on July 17, 2022, 09:58:03 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 17, 2022, 09:10:09 am ---Ok on way back from hamfest now.

That absolute turd arrived at 08:30 and emptied it again  >:(

Did manage to grab a manky tek 465, a solartron 7150, some 10 turn pots, TO18 heat sinks and a book to sell. And I still have change from £25  :-DD

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Do you still need some parts for your 465B? The 465 that you grabbed today may not have those same parts. And did you finally get that IC?

If you need something let me know.

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Yeah the 465 today is useless for repairing this. I'm semi hoping it works as well  :-DD. I'm after the timebase ROM on the vertical board. I will PM you - any help appreciated!

bd139:

--- Quote from: Robert763 on July 17, 2022, 09:29:13 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 17, 2022, 09:10:09 am ---Ok on way back from hamfest now.

That absolute turd arrived at 08:30 and emptied it again  >:(

Did manage to grab a manky tek 465, a solartron 7150, some 10 turn pots, TO18 heat sinks and a book to sell. And I still have change from £25  :-DD

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Is the turd a dealer?

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Yes. Same one I mentioned to you last time. He waltzed off with a pile of kit and left the trash for everyone else. Turns up as a seller but doesn't set up, goes round and empties everything off and that's it.

bd139:
Right junk time. Spent hardly anything!

Firstly Tektronix 465. Cruddy and gunky but after poking all the controls it is just dirt. This should clean up and look fairly good. There's no sign of corrosion on it in the usual places at all and all controls are intact. Usual feet disintegrated. £20



The bag contains as always, a quantity of trash  :-DD



Now a Solartron 7050, not a 7150 as I previously said  :palm:. Seller says it mostly works but has some issues with auto ranging on volts mode. Sure I can work through that. Is almost a 5.5 digit meter. Yes the price ticket is right. That cost me an entire £1.



Another bargain. 12x National Semiconductor and Motorola LM317T's for 50p:



Now this was a really good one. 5x 100K and 5x 10K Spectrol 10 turn pots ... for 50p!



I never have any heatsinks. These are usually 50p each online. I haven't counted them but it's a butt load of TO18's for 50p:



And a book to bounce. This one is a relatively rare one. Paid £2:



So spent £24.50 in total!

What did I not buy:

1. PM3217. I did consider it as it was near mint.
2. Lots of tube boat anchors. Just nope
3. HP 141T mainframe with 110MHz analyser plugin. When I've moved!!!!
4. Probably loads of stuff that Robert would have found  :-DD

bd139:
465 should clean up nicely. Wonder if it works. Plug was cut off everything on the stand

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