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EggertEnjoyer123:

--- Quote from: salvagedcircuitry on October 25, 2024, 09:36:25 pm ---Call me crazy, but does it make sense to purchase a broken E5062A and repair back to it's former glory? The E5062A is definitely showing it's age, but it's realistically ~$500 broken and is a good value proposition for my personal lab. For about double a broken E5062A, I can grab a SSA3021X Plus and convert it to a SVA1032X, but I think the E5062A may be a more well rounded instrument.

What do you guys think?  ^-^

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Get a LiteVNA

Vince:

--- Quote from: RolandK on October 27, 2024, 06:05:57 am ---The 556 is the ulitmative 500 series scope. Go get it :rant: :horse:, you will not regret it  :-+ and you will not part it out  :rant: - you will love it on first view :-* - believe me.  >:D

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Yes I hear you but really, really, it's too big for me. It's more than I can chew. It's just too big to fit on the bench, it would need a super large custom cart made, and I would not have space to have a cart sitting there. My lab is in the living room, I don't have the space. The scope would have to sit on a shelve, gathering dust, which is not the point is it...

Plus even if I could find someone to bring it to me, it would cost me 100 at least to pay for their service, so 139 total.. when my bank account is already negative and I need lots of money to fix the car, thanks to it failing the safety inspection last week, and I have only 2 months to do all the repairs...

My TE addiction does have some limits after all... the real gigantic massive boat anchors like the 556 just don't fit my TE "profile"... I am not " Paul Carlson's lab " with unlimited funds, a giant heated hangar dedicated to boat anchors, with 50,000 Euros worth of heavy duty shelving units, and literally a fork lift in the hangar to move the TE around !  :scared:

It really hurts not to get it but I just would not be a good home for it. I am tempted to get it but only to rescue it from the tube hoarders and the junk yard... but then what would I do with it once I have it ? Who would want it from me ? Nobody, so it would just sit there unused, a tragedy.

Sadly I just don't see a good solution for this scope  :(

I have already saved / rescued 20+ of these old Tek scopes and went to great lengths to rescue that 502 just the other day... I just can't save them all sadly  :-[


EDIT : remorse is eating me alive, trying hard to find a scenario for this scope now  :-\ ... maybe I can get it, to rescue it from the junk yard. Then once I have it, I will give it a good clean inside out, fix it electrically to make it all good, ready to go... then I can put it up for sale for a decent price, 150 or so, at least, so that tube hoarders don't find it economically viable/interesting to buy, but that it rather appeals to some collector somewhere.   I am trying hard, I am trying hard...

EDIT #2 : I just realised... with a 556, since it's got a dual beam CRT and two vertical plugins... one could feed the same signal to both beams, but one would go through a regular amplifier, whereas for the other beam it could go trough a spectrum analyser plugin instead, so you would get a display of the signal in the time domain and frequency domain at the same time... an MDO scope from the '60s, hollow-state !!!     :o

Hmmm..... that's quite something...

TERRA Operative:
Just buy it already! :-DD

Vince:
Buying it would be by far the easiest part of the story.... but then how would it magically traverse the country to get to me ? That's the hard, inextricable part....

wkb:
That is of secondary importance  :-// :-DD

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