HP 141T teardown, they make those caps impossible to read and seemingly impossible to remove.
Anyone enjoying these?
enjoying? well those pics sure are bringing back lots of memories (and may lead to nightmares). spent waaaaaaay too much time inside those things.
but when you get it working you will appreciate why 40 years ago we all drooled over them. so many knobs to fiddle with!
takes a while to get used to the implications of harmonic mixing, but after you get used to flicking the "signal identifier" switch to prove you are looking at the correct peak it stops bothering you that some signals you can see do not match the band switch setting.
playing with the storage settings is almost more fun than a video game.
AND if you really like fixing things they are a gift that keeps on giving. (zoooooorrrrrrch!)
edit-- but they were and still are good instruments, and very very useful tools.