Hewlett Packard 3551A Transmission Test Set

Checking out a HP 3551A sold as “For parts or not work­ing, will not pow­er on”, that I actu­al­ly pur­chased for parts.
My orig­i­nal intent on pur­chas­ing this unit was to sal­vage the knobs and con­nec­tors for repair­ing some of my oth­er HP gear. I did man­age to swap out four of the knobs before my curios­i­ty got the bet­ter of me.

HP 3551A front pan­el after repair, quick cleanup, and knob swap
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Hewlett Packard 8012B Pulse Generator

Cleanup and repair of a Hewlett Packard (HP) 8012B pulse gen­er­a­tor pur­chased on Ebay as “Untested does not pow­er on, sold as is”.
The 8012B was orig­i­nal­ly pro­duced by the HP Gmbh Boeblingen Divison, Germany, but this lat­er mod­el was made in USA. It pro­vides vari­able tran­si­tion times down to 5 ns and the rep­e­ti­tion rate can be adjust­ed from 1 Hz to 50 MHz.

Hewlett Packard (HP) 8012B pulse generator
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