Thanks people for your replies, much appreciated.
Glad to see the LA probe/cable is neither impossible to find nor mega expensive, that's cool... will be searching for one then, but not now, bankrupt. Was already before buying the scope, now I just made things worse...
time to start job hunting I guess.... if just to pay the bills and food. Been out of employment for long enough now, next week that will be spot on a year since I got fired at my request. Done the work I needed to do inside the house to make it livable. Garage foundations done as well, just need to pour the concrete for the slab (need 1500 Euros for that...). Front yard has been transformed too, and I just seeded the lawn. Now I am penniless and getting bored... time to get back to work
As for the knob, had a quick look on ebay, found a guy selling 3 of them for ... 25 bucks !
I need 9 knobs...
OK, xrunner you win, I lose... maybe some 3D printed knobs would be good as a temporary solution, until I can afford to get a cheap broken bottom of the barrel 54600 scope for parts.
If there exist readily available 3D models of these knobs, have fun and tell me how it's going.... Dwagon I am sure you will excell at it, won't you...
hopefully you have the proper shades of grey to match the OEM knobs.. if you have only pink or bright yellow, that's fine too, I guess I can do like xrunner and just go get some model paint of the correct colour, and go painting....
Geez looks like this 546XX HP series is quite a lucrative business.... it's out of my league for sure, can't compete in this arena. Will be fixing this one and that will be my first and last, won't be collecting them like I do Tek scopes...
Looking at the video Dwagon posted of this amateur, I see there are no I/O connectors at the back like on Tek scopes... instead just a single general purpose expansion connector that's useless in itself, unless you plug an I/O box in it. So... that means these scopes didn't have a whole lot of I/O then... ranging between zero, and one or two, depending on what extension pack the scope came with.
Obviously mine will have zero extension, seeing as the guy stole the knobs, it's hard to believe he would have left the extension at the back !
I see there is a GPIB extension for sale here, for 60 Euros... no, no money, that won't be mine.