$30 from Craigslist
$30 from Craigslist
I got this through Craigslist yesterday:
(Of course I had just bought a new SWR/Power meter...but one of the new/old ones has filed strength reading.)
Can anyone direst me to where I might buy a schematic for this Heath/Bell and Howell clunker? There is no horizontal sweep...Thanks!

(Of course I had just bought a new SWR/Power meter...but one of the new/old ones has filed strength reading.)
Can anyone direst me to where I might buy a schematic for this Heath/Bell and Howell clunker? There is no horizontal sweep...Thanks!


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Is that a toledo type lantern to the rear of the O'scope?
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http://www.radiolaguy.com/Manuals/manuals_Test_Equipment1.htm#Bell%20&%20Howell
Did a quick online search. Might this be it?
Did a quick online search. Might this be it?
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Oh thanks! Yeah that looks like the schematic!
Yup, thats and old highway warning torch from the days before the yellow blinking baracades.
Yup, thats and old highway warning torch from the days before the yellow blinking baracades.
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The torch looked familiar. When I was little, you would see them in highway emergency kits, before Olin's fusees caught on.
http://www.oldengine.org/members/betz/338302894ooePNq_ph.jpg
http://www.oldengine.org/members/betz/338302894ooePNq_ph.jpg
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Cool!
They were a little before my time, I guess. I saw them on old cartoons first.
They were a little before my time, I guess. I saw them on old cartoons first.
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I can remember the street departments using them at night, but they were more like a cannon ball and painted black
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Resistance is Futile wrote:I can remember the street departments using them at night, but they were more like a cannon ball and painted black
This is the type I remember also!

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http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4783911697516998&pid=1.7
I saw plenty of them too!
I saw plenty of them too!

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I saw one of those cannn ball ones for sale, but it was too rusty. That's the kind I want.
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Make sure it's a torch!
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/cannonball-found-in-downtown-atlanta/nYwKC/

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/cannonball-found-in-downtown-atlanta/nYwKC/
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Yikes!75X11 wrote:Make sure it's a torch!![]()
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/cannonball-found-in-downtown-atlanta/nYwKC/
Darn yankees leaving their junk around. (I'm a yankee...LOL)
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Got the scope working.

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Score one for the yankee workshop!

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Heehee.
Dirty pots, I thought...but it stopped sweeping again later, and I found the center wire of a small shielded cable shorted to another shielded wire on the horizontal sweep board. As soon as I separated them, it instantly began to work and has ever since.
Dirty pots, I thought...but it stopped sweeping again later, and I found the center wire of a small shielded cable shorted to another shielded wire on the horizontal sweep board. As soon as I separated them, it instantly began to work and has ever since.
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They're a handy instrument, good luck with it!
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Thanks!
I have ordered a Tektronix 15 MHz dual trace from a brick and mortar recycling store on ebay that is supposed to be technician tested and has a warranty. The old B&H may be a spare soon.
I have ordered a Tektronix 15 MHz dual trace from a brick and mortar recycling store on ebay that is supposed to be technician tested and has a warranty. The old B&H may be a spare soon.
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