Wow thanks for that, that was a cool repair and experiment ! You only post once a yer but when you do it's juicy 
Never noticed the buzzer ticking, but now that you mentioned it I am sure I will start hearing it now, "of course" 
Cool screenshots, what scope is that ? It looks like a combiscope but it does not look like a Fluke/Philips, based on the CRT surround that's a lighter colour on your scope.
I think it would however fit better a Hameg combiscope... is that it ? I quite like them and would not mind one, to enrich my scope collection, but they are not anywhere as plentiful / common as the "regular" Hameg scopes on leboncoin.fr.
Don't say a word, I am sure you got yours for 20 Euros and fixed it in 5 minutes for 50 cents, as per usual. I hate you 
To be fair you really have to know what you're listening for to notice the buzzer noise, no trouble really. It got me worried because I've had Flukes before where the buzzer drive was "shorted" and current consumption was sky high with a still working meter. That and the LCD being a little faint on some segments despite the zebra cleaning made me want to look if I could correlate current spikes with what I was hearing.
Now you know, have you heard it?
No, can't hear it....may it long continue that way !!!
You're right it's a Hameg, I caught it on Leboncoin of course, a decent catch at 90€ shipped and working, not worth any hate tough 
Oh, so you paid more than 10 Euros for a piece of TE for a change ?!
OK, no need to hate you on that one, I agree...
It's a HM1508 (First version - no USB) I'm still not sure how long I'll be keeping it... I do like the analog / digital, 150MHz, 1MB, 1GS/s but considering all the hardware is there it leaves me the impression of an incomplete product. It has been the scope getting the most attention for several months now and some of the UI just doesn't feel intuitive for a quite basic scope - but maybe I change scopes too often.
Another deception is the very limited amount of on-screen simultaneous measurements you can display for a scope of its age, I'm forgiving for the mid '90s Fluke / Philips Combiscopes to be limited, not here.
My main grunt is the component tester, my motivation to buy this (other than the price and possibility to make some benefit when letting it go) was to have analog / decent digital figures and the component tester which is something I use a lot. IMHO they completely ruined that:
You cant switch to and fro component tester in one key press, it brings up a menu then 2nd press enables C.T.
Worse you can't zoom x10 horizontally the component tester at all, that's something I like to do regularly when quickly checking electrolytics.
Thanks for the summary !
I didn't realise they were so recent that they had so much memory and sampling rate !
WANT !
And if I can find one with a USB port at the front for screen capture... WANT EVEN MORE !
All the other down sides you mention, are no worse than my Tek 2232 or Fluke/Phlips, so that's fine.
My first combiscope was my Tek 2232 Like any Tek 2000 series, I love them for their ergonomic and intuitive interface.
But the 2232 is one of the oldest combiscopes, so its internal construction is a bit dated, makes it temperamental / unreliable.
Plus, cursors only work in digital mode, not analog. Only 4K memory as well, and no automatic measurements. And the dreaded "singing" SMPS that pierces my ear drums...
Then I have my Philips/Fluke combiscope. A bit more modern so overall much better, which is why that's my daily driver. However the downside is a disaster of a user interface, so much so that even though I have been using for 5 years now, I still have to search the front panel for seconds un til I can find the push button that I need, and in some cases some more seconds to remember how to work it to achieve the desired result. enabling/disabling the x10 sweep speed being one of them. To mention just one example, but there is so much more wrong in this UI... I still often want to throw it out the window in anger and frustration...
The Hameg can't possibly have a UI worse than the Fluke, be it the H/W part (front panel/ switches/knobs), or the S/W part (the menu system).
The much higher sampling rate and memory and USB in some, of the Hameg, make it a no brainer for me....so I think I will keep an eye out for one.
The only advantage maybe for the Fluke over the Hamed, is that the bandwidth is better at 200MHz, and it's got switchable 50R inputs which the Hameg might not have (don't know), since this feature tends to appear starting at the 200MHz B/W mark.
Also, my Fluke is the 4 channel version, which can be handy at times... when you need it, you need it, no substitute...
So the conclusion is I need at least: 1 old Hameg for the component tester, the Micsig for the serial decode, a LeCroy for the advanced math and statistics, a battery powered and isolated scope for those rare occasions. (Of course that's a bare minimum, always have some backup !)
Same here. The perfect (BENCH, not USB/picoscope) scope does not exist. I have countless scopes and I like them all for this or that reason.... be it factual/technical, or subjective/emotional...
At the very least I wand a combiscope, best I can find (the Hameg fits the bill here, by a long shot) for general purpose work.
Then I want also my HP 54645D MSO for it's megazoom goodness and overall great user experience, I just love this thing.
then a more capable, "bigger" digital scope. That would be my Tek TDS544A which yuo know very well
which I hope to replace with a Japanese import, Aussie revisited TDS 784D fully optioned up.
Then for high-speed fun my TDS 694C , 3GHz, 4x10GS/s.
Then nearby, my countless older, purely analog CRT scopes from the '50's to the early '90's, mostly Tek.
I just love all my scopes, I don't want to have to chose !
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