Browsing the bay the other day I came across this little piece of equipment that I always wanted even before I had a soldering iron: A simple signal generator.
It was sold for parts only, but looked like even I could comprehend the circuit and repair it if necessary.
A quick test shows it is working:
(Yes, I used the 475 on purpose.
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The only problems it has are scratchy potentiometers.
Some pics from the inside - even within the benign housing there's lots of spare room:
And all the 'lytics are still fine!
50 kΩ wire wound potentiometer. I just have to see that (the hair-like wire won't show up on the picture, I'm afraid):
No way to get at the second pot in front, no opening at all. I cleaned the inner wiper contacts as good as I could and reinstalled it.
Upon turning the signal amplitude doesn't stay constant, but there are no dead spots.
Cleaned up the case and am happy with a nice and easy low frequency generator.