Fw: Oscilloscope Recommendations

[Malcolm Leonard]

Oh boy!As a lover of tubed,kit built,relatively low priced vintage test gear
and a Heathkit fan to boot,I can't help feeling that I ought to speak up in
behalf of Heathkit and kit built scopes in general.
So far,everybody has tried to discourage the poster from getting a Heath
scope.
Look,Teks are very well made but I had one that literally took two good men
to lift up and place on the bench.
In some cases you will need to purchase a separate cart or reinforce an
existing bench or shelf to support one of these monsters.

Furthermore,the Tek internal ceramic parts supports requiring the use of
silver solder are not funsville to service for the average hobbyist.

And maybe the guy posting this has a feeling for the nostalgic value of old
Benton Harbor stuff.

Furthermore,thousands of service shops happily used Heath scopes and made
lots of money with them for many years.

For servicing *digital*equipment will a Heath scope do?No,of course not.But
for general,vacuum tub era servicing Heath scopes are fine.I'd choose a
later model,perhaps to get the advantages of changes and improvements but
unless you are designing rockets to the moon or doing digital work on a
serious basis
Heath scopes wiil still serve as they did for so many years.
Malcolm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Goss, Ed" <Ed.Goss at JHUAPL.EDU>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:27 AM
Subject: Oscilloscope Recommendations


> All,
>      What would you folks recommend in the way of a used Heathkit scope?
> I'd like to pick up something for general bench use, alignment of
> boatanchors, etc.
> --Ed G--
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heathkit Owners and Collectors List
> [mailto:HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV]On Behalf Of Ron
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 9:48 AM
> To: HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> Subject: Re: FA: Heathkit meters
>
>
> These meters are for Hethkits made in the UK. Scales do not
> look the same as US made Heathkit meters. This, of course,
> may be a concern for collectors. Functionally, the meters
> should be identical to the US meters and work just fine.
>
> I ordered one for an IM-38. Paid with cash through mail.
> Norman was very responsive and above board. The meter looked
> new, but had the mounting nuts missing. The studs are NOT the
> #6-32 size used on the original. Norman sent nuts, that turned
> out to be #6-32, of which I have plenty... I finally found
> metric nuts (4 x 0.7) that, while not a correct fit (kinda
> loose, were good enough to secure the meter.
>
> -- Ron
>
>
>
> G. Beat wrote:
> > I noticed this evening that a number of Heathkit Meters (e.g. VTVM and
> > Audio
> > meters)
> > Heath part numbers: 407-22 ; 407-62 ; 407-75 ; 407-8A
> >
> > have appeared from the eBay seller:  normalservices
> >
> > Might be an opportunity to pick up a meter in the UK for that VTVM.
> >
> > w9gb
> >
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