Hi Guys, Would anyone by any chance happen to have any parts for a HP54111D scope? I need an input attenuator as I destroyed it by accidentally putting in too high an input thinking I had a divide by ten probe on, and an ADC board which went with it.
At the moment there are several complete scopes for sale on the bay some for just a couple of hundred dollars, but you wouldn't believe what these people are like. The cost of the complete scope is not a problem but paying nearly twice that to ship it from America is! so I contact them and say, "If I pay you the asking price for the scope, will you take out the nine plug in boards and the four attenuators and stick them in a cardboard box and send them to me. I will give you the simple instructions how to do it, they are all plug in, will take 15 minutes." then I tell them I will be quite happy for them to sell the three power supply boards and the mother board and the colour board and the colour tube and the tubes electronics boards on the bay and make themselves extra money.
Will they? Will they hell, it's all too much trouble, just give me the money and piss off, unbelievable. That or like on two occasions I get criminals and conmen who say they will but want to take the add down and deal outside of the bay, yeah right, I'm going to risk sending money for parts and postage without the security the bay gives. I really do lose hope for human kind sometimes.
I had one bloke who said he would do it, I sent him a clear concise single paragraph of instructions and warned him that if he didn't follow them he would break something. Then I got three messages in a row "How do you get the bloody covers off this thing?" " How do you get the plugs off?" "oh sod this I have broken the clips now, these boards don't unplug, I'm not doing this " Up to that point I had sent him five messages giving clear details of what I wanted and how to remove them, in some messages I would ask maybe three questions, Never would he answer them, all I ever got was a one line answer, he came across as devious and avoiding questions so I said to him that I wanted the four plastic feet at the rear, Which I do in fact as I broke one of mine,
He replied with one line there are no feet. I replied that the feet are clearly shown in the picture on his advert? no reply.
I asked again, no reply. I am worried now that instead of the scope I am seeing in the advert he is pulling some old scrapper out the back to bits so he can keep and sell the one I think I am buying and I had to know it was the one in the add as there is an older version than mine with boards that have no had mods done to them. I tried to ask for board versions and told him where to read it on the board, one line answer "Don't know"
Ok in desperation I give up and click on pay now and it informs me the add no longer exists, so again a devious git who want's to deal outside of the bay. could he not give me the board versions because he hadn't taken any boards out of anything, and was just talking me into sending him free money?
I couldn't risk it.
What the hell is it with these people? someone is advertising just an attenuator unit on the bay for would you believe $999, yes $999 I clicked on make an offer and offered $60 and pointed out that the scope is over 33 years old and you can buy a whole one for under $200 on the bay. He refused the offer. would rather be stuck with it and end up chucking it in the bin than get some money and help someone. Un be piggin believe a bull.
Right, that's my rant, as you can gather I have been trying for some time to get these parts, I even spent hours trying to repair them, but it always comes down to the thick film combo's the HP made for it and there is no way to replace them.
Anyone got any, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas
None of them will sell the scopes, most are advertised as only one channel working and the scope is 33 years old for gods sake! I have all the ones on the bay on "Watch" at the moment and I bet they all expire without being sold.
At the moment there are several complete scopes for sale on the bay some for just a couple of hundred dollars, but you wouldn't believe what these people are like. The cost of the complete scope is not a problem but paying nearly twice that to ship it from America is! so I contact them and say, "If I pay you the asking price for the scope, will you take out the nine plug in boards and the four attenuators and stick them in a cardboard box and send them to me. I will give you the simple instructions how to do it, they are all plug in, will take 15 minutes." then I tell them I will be quite happy for them to sell the three power supply boards and the mother board and the colour board and the colour tube and the tubes electronics boards on the bay and make themselves extra money.
Will they? Will they hell, it's all too much trouble, just give me the money and piss off, unbelievable. That or like on two occasions I get criminals and conmen who say they will but want to take the add down and deal outside of the bay, yeah right, I'm going to risk sending money for parts and postage without the security the bay gives. I really do lose hope for human kind sometimes.
I had one bloke who said he would do it, I sent him a clear concise single paragraph of instructions and warned him that if he didn't follow them he would break something. Then I got three messages in a row "How do you get the bloody covers off this thing?" " How do you get the plugs off?" "oh sod this I have broken the clips now, these boards don't unplug, I'm not doing this " Up to that point I had sent him five messages giving clear details of what I wanted and how to remove them, in some messages I would ask maybe three questions, Never would he answer them, all I ever got was a one line answer, he came across as devious and avoiding questions so I said to him that I wanted the four plastic feet at the rear, Which I do in fact as I broke one of mine,
He replied with one line there are no feet. I replied that the feet are clearly shown in the picture on his advert? no reply.
I asked again, no reply. I am worried now that instead of the scope I am seeing in the advert he is pulling some old scrapper out the back to bits so he can keep and sell the one I think I am buying and I had to know it was the one in the add as there is an older version than mine with boards that have no had mods done to them. I tried to ask for board versions and told him where to read it on the board, one line answer "Don't know"
Ok in desperation I give up and click on pay now and it informs me the add no longer exists, so again a devious git who want's to deal outside of the bay. could he not give me the board versions because he hadn't taken any boards out of anything, and was just talking me into sending him free money?
I couldn't risk it.
What the hell is it with these people? someone is advertising just an attenuator unit on the bay for would you believe $999, yes $999 I clicked on make an offer and offered $60 and pointed out that the scope is over 33 years old and you can buy a whole one for under $200 on the bay. He refused the offer. would rather be stuck with it and end up chucking it in the bin than get some money and help someone. Un be piggin believe a bull.
Right, that's my rant, as you can gather I have been trying for some time to get these parts, I even spent hours trying to repair them, but it always comes down to the thick film combo's the HP made for it and there is no way to replace them.
Anyone got any, pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas
None of them will sell the scopes, most are advertised as only one channel working and the scope is 33 years old for gods sake! I have all the ones on the bay on "Watch" at the moment and I bet they all expire without being sold.
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