Good morning 🧵 @coyotescalling.bsky.social

British plugs are built different… special

Performing a health checkup on the U61B. Make sure there’s no excessive grid emission, red plating, stinkyness or anything. Restoration holding good

Tv10 analysis of the Hickok rfo-5 1 weak 5y3g, 1 weak 6ac7, 1 missing 884 thyratron

Vintage ventilator Drager Pulmomat c1963? Meant to fit machines like the Romulus. Totally mechanical. One of the many Romulus accessories. Still need a couple parts for it but does seem to work?? Will attempt to work on it in the future. Thank you blueberry yeen for this acquisition

Misbehaving at flea markets Late 30s / early 40s ??Hickok RFO-5. Great shape for 20 bucks.

Testing modified Em80 settings w/ the CT160 to test Soviet 6e1p tubes

Testing the big German land mass

Finnegan Friday / GA70 @coyotescalling.bsky.social

Today is international latex day. Although I don’t have much, the closest I have is: The wonderful and very heavy 1961 Drager Romulus. 🧵 @coyotescalling.bsky.social

Finnegan maxxing @coyotescalling.bsky.social

Good morning

The weekly French function test

Lazy sunday stroll

Does anyone know of any products to preserve / condition rubber? More hp garbage time. Forbidden bumblebitch capacitors

Mid 70s nilfisk ga70 cleaned up and good for another 50 years. One of the best built machines by far

When things are meant to be serviced: wonderful ga70

Suit Saturday Finnegan had too much Tylenol and lost 0.38 % of intelligence Rip sylvania 12ax7a. Mystery Japanese 12ax7 is NOS. Love the ct160 and HP122a recap in progress 🧵coyotescalling + 📸 Marsyips

Mail day best day. Recap time

One up dropper my lord and savior Good bye fox transfer pile of crap that never worked from the box 75 percent of the time

Matching fail because my låmpèß are 60 year old crap. New ecc83 on bucket list

Wheatstone bridges Wednesday Avo 🤌

When test gear used to probably cost as much as a house Preliminary cleaning time

The big fugly TV-2 has demanded more servicing To sacrifice more dollars to the needy and greedy box of ??? Engineering choices

Saturday Motoyote mode Fox transfer fails (again) Avo 6l6g stress testing @coyotescalling.bsky.social @foxfrommars.bsky.social

New shoe lace time for the esp

Avovovovo mkII done for now. Cleaned and recapped. Terrible aluminum wire cord replaced. ma/v pot seems toast so no point to do much more unless a replacement found. Slope equation suffices anyways. All other functions working

Avo analysis Greasy+ full of oil New panasonics installed. Avo further self reviving. All functions work minus set mA/volt pot. Further deoxit enema needed. Drilitic cap to be removed Fancy for 1949-1950

Telelelelelelelelelefunken ecc83 slope measurements Avo accuracy / condition inspection Exercising the U61 / TV10

A very filthy avo

First signs of life. 1959 HP 122A oscilloscope Needs total restoration (future problem). CRT is super healthy. Caps not so much

Fursuit Saturday Finnegan has evolved to at least open instruction manuals…. Sleeping on the job and reading the manual is still????… 🧵 coyotescalling

1929 still sucking

Cold war era test equipment Осциллограф с1-35 / oscilloscope s1-35. Year 1969. ( Radio Plant 🇺🇦??) 1966 HP 200CD Wide Range Oscillator (🇺🇸). Finally done working on this miserable thing

Time to start fixing and diagnosing 30 kg of Soviet spaghetti 1972 kalibr l3-3

Soviet solutions

Revived / first power on of the oscillator

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Lazy suit Sunday. Some more tries at plate curves w/ Tungsol 5881 🧵 @coyotescalling.bsky.social

Matching the 5881s with the Metrix U61B and tv10

Preliminary testing some nice tungsol 5881s and some of the earliest numerical display tubes E1T

National Yote day? 🧵 @coyotescalling.bsky.social

Refresh and retro modernization time. Parted out my other bike for the newer parts. Swapped back tech 3 brakes, X0 shifter/der, new chain, headset bearings done.

Purple glow of destruction Soviet 6p3s / 6l6 Gas analysis: very excessive plate current and G2 current. Junk tube now

Extremely delayed suit Saturday / Sunday, Finn turned 1 year old, some noodling, 6p3s analysis scheduled for tomorrow 🧵 @coyotescalling.bsky.social

On the list of procrastinations to work on finally…1950s/60s?? HP 200cd

Model m noise

Testing Soviet magic eyes (6e1p) with the Metrix. (More like testing the Metrix )

Turning on the substation

Spring cannot come faster. Late mx Monday 🧵 @coyotescalling.bsky.social