Re: Cossor CDU150 rescue
The place I worked at in the mid 70s had a CDU150, it was the most unreliable piece of equipment ever and seemed to spend half its life back at Cossor being repaired. They even replaced the CRT after about 3 years. I think the mains transformer was replaced under warranty.
Our accountants regarded it as capital equipment that could not be scrapped and happily kept on paying for repairs. After five years its value had been written down and I bought it off the company for a song. In those days there wasn't much time for hobbies and it probably only got used for a couple of hours a year but that didn't stop it playing up from time to time. The last time it broke down, a large EHT decoupling capacitor had gone short and I successfully used the scope for a while with this disconnected. In the end it went to the local dump and I was glad to replace it with something reliable.
Len
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