Vintage Tek Restoration pictures by Martin

[crispy_tofu]

I love it  , great job, very cool!

[AF6LJ]

WoW, Just WoW...
Thank you Martin and everyone who shared.
Great way to spend a Sunday Afternoon.

[Radio Tech]

WoW, Just WoW...
Thank you Martin and everyone who shared.
Great way to spend a Sunday Afternoon.

Well Said Sue, and always good to see you here! 

His restores are awesome.

[AF6LJ]

WoW, Just WoW...
Thank you Martin and everyone who shared.
Great way to spend a Sunday Afternoon.

Well Said Sue, and always good to see you here! 

His restores are awesome.

They are Great!!
There is a guy here in town who has a number of Tek scopes including a 585 that was wonderfully restored.

[crispy_tofu]

There is a guy here in town who has a number of Tek scopes including a 585 that was wonderfully restored.

I would love to see a photo of that 

[AF6LJ]

There is a guy here in town who has a number of Tek scopes including a 585 that was wonderfully restored.

I would love to see a photo of that 

He shows up at the local ham swap meets I may have a picture of his gear.
EDIT:
I Thought I had a good picture but the ones I have are not that great.
He had several scopes and they were reasonably priced.

[Martin.M]

( off topic  )   Sue is a HAM?

one of this people who use some very glowing boatanchors to heat long antennas ?
I have there a restoration running just in the moment. See below, this old american worst case radio makes me bumping the head on the table 



greetings
Martin

[Martin.M]

comming soon: Restoration of a Rackmount scope Tek RM565 (Dual Beam)







this is a very heavy Tek.
It have special differents to the other scopes of the 56x series.
Normally they have a slot for the vertical amplifier and a slot for the time base, horizontal amplifier. This makes possible to use various time bases, and very special sampling sweep time bases for driving the sampling plugins. The 565, RM565 have own time bases, there is no slot to use another. There are only 2 slots (for each beam one), to insert vertical input plugins. So the large 565 can`t use time base plugins.

greetings
Martin

[Radio Tech]

Martin.M you are just awesome!

I love seeing you bring these oldies back to life 
You should do videos.

[nfmax]

You should do videos.

They would have to be 16mm movies though, wouldn't they?

[Radio Tech]

You should do videos.

They would have to be 16mm movies though, wouldn't they?

He He. you got it. And silent...

[Martin.M]

I have a bw video camera using a newicon tube, you means that? 

greetings
Martin

[Richard Crowley]

I have a bw video camera using a newicon tube, you means that? 

Do you mean a Newvicon (descendent of the original Vidicon)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera_tube#Newvicon

I once had the job of maintaining a couple of big, heavy Phillips/Norelco studio color TV cameras.
Each had three Plumbicon tubes (one for each additive primary Red, Green, Blue)

Each camera had a Camera Control Unit consisting of a short rack with >>100 adjustment knobs.
It took an hour or two to align the camera for use each time you powered it up.

[Radio Tech]

That would be interesting

[AF6LJ]

( off topic  )   Sue is a HAM?

one of this people who use some very glowing boatanchors to heat long antennas ?
I have there a restoration running just in the moment. See below, this old american worst case radio makes me bumping the head on the table 



greetings
Martin

Yes, and I love radios that glow in the dark.
Even more; I love old test equipment and the things engineers had to do to push the envelope. Before I lost part of my eyesight I owned quite a bit of old warm gear, I had tn HP 851/8551 spectrum analyzer, it was most interesting to see just how they did the stabilization of the BWO frequency. I had that, a calermetric power meter, several sig gens from audio to twelve GHZ, and a bunch of other stuff. Long story about the HP SA... I have told that story here once before....

The amateur gear is easy to deal with, not like tracking down screwy problems in old test gear. The amateur gear is easy to fix and fun to operate, I refer to it as Full Contact Amateur Radio.


Dace needs to set up an amateur radio sub-forum here. This group has a lot of hams and is a more polite place than QRZ.

[AF6LJ]

( off topic  )   Sue is a HAM?

one of this people who use some very glowing boatanchors to heat long antennas ?
I have there a restoration running just in the moment. See below, this old american worst case radio makes me bumping the head on the table 



greetings
Martin

I should point out I almost recognize that looks like an Lafayette or an Eico from the rear.

[Martin.M]

an old Eico, 753 + the PSU 751
I have some other nice radios also. Most amazing is the Collins Radio 51j4

greetings
Martin

[AF6LJ]

an old Eico, 753 + the PSU 751
I have some other nice radios also. Most amazing is the Collins Radio 51j4

greetings
Martin

I thought it was an Eico the funny shaped VFO housing gives it away.
As for the 51J4 

[Martin.M]

the adjusting of the slugs is not possible in one sunday afternoon 
This radio is one with the 3 mechanical filters, 1 - 3 and 6kHz. It moves  at minimum 15 slugs in the gear train.
A very good test field area for old Tek scopes 

[Radio Tech]

Beautiful!   

[retrolefty]

Dace needs to set up an amateur radio sub-forum here. This group has a lot of hams and is a more polite place than QRZ.

 +1 
WA6TKD

[Radio Tech]

Dace needs to set up an amateur radio sub-forum here. This group has a lot of hams and is a more polite place than QRZ.

 +1 
WA6TKD

 +2 

[AF6LJ]

Dace needs to set up an amateur radio sub-forum here. This group has a lot of hams and is a more polite place than QRZ.

 +1 
WA6TKD

 +2 

 

[Radio Tech]

Was thinking, I know that is dangerous.
But really does not have to be a ham radio sub forum. But perhaps a RF Engineers  Electronics sub forum.

RFEE for short   

[retrolefty]

Was thinking, I know that is dangerous.
But really does not have to be a ham radio sub forum. But perhaps a RF Engineers  Electronics sub forum.

RFEE for short   

 "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet".

 Just so it's a place where we can 73s, 88s, hi hi hi, CQ, and a minimum of QRM