Vlog 16Oct11: A few Pickups, Trades & Update on the EICO Oscilloscope

Pickups and trades at the beginning and an update on the oscilloscope.
***Went to get my vacuum tubes checked, had 2 tubes that were bad and he had replacements. It now works great! :D
Will do a follow up video shortly.
Thanks to CoachMillsBlog:
http://www.youtube.com/user/coachmillsblog
Thanks to LoricElf:
http://www.youtube.com/user/LoricElf
I will do another update on the oscilloscope when it's up and running :)
Thanks for watching

Category:

Gaming

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• Game
• Gaming
• Colecovision
• Nintendo
• SNES
• N64
• Pickups
• Trades
• work
• restore
• EICO
• Oscilloscope
• DC
• Wide
• Band
• Vacuum
• tube
• Coachmillsblog
• Loricelf
• thomas3120

[TheDamoMonster]

Hey mate, you got some really awesome pickups there :) and that scope is looking just awesome !! Can definitely appreciate the effort that goes into a restoration like that! Excellent work mate :)

[thomas3120]

@TheDamoMonster Thanks Damo! :D Fixing the outside/rust, cleaning it up and adding the new caps wasn't too bad. Just hope one of the guys I'm meeting up with has the part(s) I need.

Kinda funny hehe, I'm still a novice at electronics, but when it came to vacuum tubes, I know even less lol

[Kankki1]

Very good job! You have previous experience restoring cars or something?

Blue gel would have looked really sharp on the screen though :) And interesting that even the aluminum had corroded.

[thomas3120]

@Kankki1 Thanks Kankki :) No, not really...I did restore an old VW beetle maybe 15 years ago.

lol ;) I was actually thinking about using the blue gel, but decided to keep it stock for now. I could always pick up a blue gel filter, they are really easy to swap out.

[thomas3120]

@Kankki1 Yeah the aluminum (in this case brushed aluminum) over time tarnishes and forms aluminum oxide. Unlike rust though, It's just on the very outside layer. Annodized aluminum helps as well as some aluminum rims on cars that have some kind of special clear coat.

[FritoFredrik]

You got the Oscilloscope really nice looking. it reminds me of that i need to try fix mine, its an old Philips PM3260.

Also nice pickups :D

[thomas3120]

@FritoFredrik Thanks Fredrik! :D it's getting there. Hopefully not too much to get it up and running.

Nice on the Philips PM3260...I'll have to google it and see it :) Is it a vacuum tube osc.?

[OldSchoolNYCGamer]

Is there anything Thomas can't do? Can't wait to see the working product finished. = )

[hessrf1981]

Awesome man, You did a great job.

[youtubasoarus]

@thomas3120 - Thanks Thomas. The oscilloscope looks amazing!

[jboypacman]

Very nice work Thomas! You just can do amazing things buddy. : )

[TheBladeJunker]

Another Coleco huh, some of us find many of something while others live in deserts. ^_^ $30 with the expansion, pretty good deal. 3D huh, do you have the glasses? Diddy Kong Racing, great game I wanna get. SM64, man that looks mint. Neat stuff, I wondered how one could neutralize rust. Looking really good Thomas, that Oscilloscope looks like it came through a time portal. :D

[Kankki1]

@thomas3120 That's interesting, didn't know that :)