Thanks to those who responded to my requests off-list for details on correcting a partially functional HP 3586b. Here is where I am at with it; Replaced the incandescent lamp inside of the 5060-0329 rotary encoder for a white LED with a resistor to work at 5VDC. Ordered a 75 ohm BNC chassis jack Installed two BNC-SMB cables for the 50 MHz connections that are normally covered with blank plugs on the back panel Removed all of the buttons and soaked them for a few hours in a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and oxy-clean to remove the brownish oxidation (in the process) of pulling the little wafer springs out of each switch and rotating the metal around 180 degrees so the buttons do not need to make a hard "click" replaced the NiCad battery with an NiMH The unit already had the 10 MHz precision oscillator module (thanks to Perry Sandeen for that). I have a couple of Rb standards that are already used for metrology (spec-an's, tracking generators, R-590 and a couple of other receivers). I will probably stick with those as frequency references as they are usually running for days at a time. *Ms. Tisha Hayes, AA4HA*

Tisha, Magnus encouraged me to share my "Happy Easter" with you, or at least this demo that's kinda like an easter egg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MZpnVs6CWc Enjoy, all. On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks to those who responded to my requests off-list for details on > correcting a partially functional HP 3586b. Here is where I am at with it; > > Replaced the incandescent lamp inside of the 5060-0329 rotary encoder for a > white LED with a resistor to work at 5VDC. > Ordered a 75 ohm BNC chassis jack > Installed two BNC-SMB cables for the 50 MHz connections that are normally > covered with blank plugs on the back panel > Removed all of the buttons and soaked them for a few hours in a mixture of > hydrogen peroxide and oxy-clean to remove the brownish oxidation > (in the process) of pulling the little wafer springs out of each switch and > rotating the metal around 180 degrees so the buttons do not need to make a > hard "click" > replaced the NiCad battery with an NiMH > > The unit already had the 10 MHz precision oscillator module (thanks to > Perry Sandeen for that). > > I have a couple of Rb standards that are already used for metrology > (spec-an's, tracking generators, R-590 and a couple of other receivers). I > will probably stick with those as frequency references as they are usually > running for days at a time. > > *Ms. Tisha Hayes, AA4HA* > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. >

Bob, Thanks so much, as soon as I saw the key sequence I knew where that was going! If only more manufacturers had a sense of humor. We had a test-jig in our development lab that would go through a repeating sequence and spit out a text string for each step it completed; "It slices" *BEEP* "It dices" *BEEP* "It will cut a cow in half" "BEEP,BEEP* -ad infinitum After that ran for a couple of days straight our engineering manager made us move the jig to a room far far away from his office. Tisha *Ms. Tisha Hayes* On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Bob Darlington <rdarlington@gmail.com> wrote: > Tisha, > > Magnus encouraged me to share my "Happy Easter" with you, or at least this > demo that's kinda like an easter egg: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MZpnVs6CWc > > Enjoy, all. > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks to those who responded to my requests off-list for details on > > correcting a partially functional HP 3586b. Here is where I am at with > it; > > > > Replaced the incandescent lamp inside of the 5060-0329 rotary encoder > for a > > white LED with a resistor to work at 5VDC. > > Ordered a 75 ohm BNC chassis jack > > Installed two BNC-SMB cables for the 50 MHz connections that are normally > > covered with blank plugs on the back panel > > Removed all of the buttons and soaked them for a few hours in a mixture > of > > hydrogen peroxide and oxy-clean to remove the brownish oxidation > > (in the process) of pulling the little wafer springs out of each switch > and > > rotating the metal around 180 degrees so the buttons do not need to make > a > > hard "click" > > replaced the NiCad battery with an NiMH > > > > The unit already had the 10 MHz precision oscillator module (thanks to > > Perry Sandeen for that). > > > > I have a couple of Rb standards that are already used for metrology > > (spec-an's, tracking generators, R-590 and a couple of other receivers). > I > > will probably stick with those as frequency references as they are > usually > > running for days at a time. > > > > *Ms. Tisha Hayes, AA4HA* > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. >