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Hi Ben, I have just got back from the best ewaste pick up I have ever had. A guy called me earlier to arrange collection of what he described as cabinets. He was traveling up from London, I arranged to meet him at a location in my city Norwich. when I arrived there were giant communication type servers already out in the car park, hundreds of slot cards and giant cast ally cooling systems. He said everything was from mid to late 1980s and that it was his job to decommission all the sites around the country. He filled his van with all kinds of gooodies, massive copper bus bar, cable, boards and some very strange looking stuff. when he got to what he thought was his 1200kg weight limit we then started to fill mine. I will try to send some pictures in the morning.

That is a valuable piece of test equipment, in any condition. Put it up for sale and you'll save yourself a lot of work and make a lot more money.

That was fun to watch, thanks for sharing

I absolutely love tektronix. Great video Ben.

Ben, you need to hook up with Dave Jones from EEVblog; he must be swimming in e-waste from his mail bag segments.

very riveting video! keep them coming Ben. nothing like dismantling an unfamiliar component. like a treasure hunt.

Jeez, I remember actually repairing these as a computer / electronics engineer back in the early 80's

I just scrapped out this same piece of equipment that I picked up at my local scrap yard. On my piece those white ceramic squares were loaded with heavy gold traces.

when I saw the other side of the second module I jumped that is a very great board.

your videos are so satisfying

Wow! I remember this vid!! It's was even better the 2nd time. Really AMAZING to see 3 CPU's on one thing, especially of that quality, not to mention the IC chips!!!!

Awesomenisss video mate, these videos are like game of thrones for me to watch. Btw the wife leaves the room when i watch your video's THANX 4 THAT!

Fun scrap Ben - as always thanks for sharing. I frequently monitor the scientific and lab equipment forums in the hopes of scoring some of these.

Sweet scrap out mate. I enjoyed that! 👍

Go for Gold!! Great video

That wad awesome. Hope you get more like that. Heck, hope I can get one like that lol. Best of luck.

Very very cool indeed

Hey Ben, what is the large square blue parts on some of the boards from the first scrap out? Thanks

I'd love to have an oscilloscope!

Tektronix no matter what are not trashed they are repaired.

Yeah some people collect these CRTs, but what an amazing video, very nice

Go Ben go !

Oh, what have you done ! You should not scrapp this nice 2440 Tektronix scopes, I could cry. Even a dead 2440 is worth a whole lot more than whatever gold dust one could get out of it.

Ben, you might want to list for sale all the plastic parts like the feet and the plastic pieces on the back that hold the power cord. Also the knobs and plastic push buttons as an entire lot. People that are refurbishing the scopes might need these pieces. I really enjoy watching your videos...

I kid you not... right after i watch this video i came across an oscilloscope in a pile the same day! I wouldn't even have known what it was if i hadn't just watched your video. I brought it home and ripped into it right away, but it was no where near how good yours was. Mine was a 1997 and it didn't have any CP chips. Only a few medium grade boards and one decent board. The CRT had a huge copper yoke for how small the monitor was but i think the pre-90's are the good ones.

hey Ben 7:55 o believe you mean transistors 38:28 red one look for me like diodes but I'm not 100% sure 39:22 i had one like that in my collection as well nice score mine is from 82 and made by intel 45:34 i seen them before and just waiting until you spot the same kind of heatsink lol 57:00 that is something new for me cool nice scrap have a great one

32,28 that reaction 😂😂

Hello! You disassembled a cool oscillograph, it cost a lot of money, it could be sold on ebay in any condition for 300-500 dollars

Do you know what's in beryilium oxide? The withe IC that you are broken in you video?

Awesome video Ben! You need to purchase some cheap nut drivers for those pesky risers

The control knob sets sell on ebay also, as well as feet etc.

The IC's at the end of the video are Custom hybrid Peak detect IC's

Can you do a follow up video on your findings after you research the chips?

you show how to take them apart, but what are the components worth? In scrap? what kind of $$ could i get from a 20 MHz BK Precision Model 2120 Oscilloscope?

What kind if oscilloscope what is model number?

Are those capacitors silver plated?

Very interesting 😳🇺🇸

If you ever visit holland then come to me i have some nice vintage things for your collection nice relaxing scrapout btw keep going

Careful with some intensifier tubes and CRT tubes with green glowing screens as if you break them it releases Cadmium, Cadmium compound is put on by brushing.

You should be selling those online if you can! Unless they're completely ruined, many of us would pay decent money even for an older one, as new ones are VERY expensive...!😉 The exception, I suppose, is if they're so old as to be broken from use, making them functionally useless. And for parts, they could also be quite valuable to people!

cool you have l would be in Belorus so much eguipment ofher than zanatta and to work a good pair netbukov will try to see all the interesting as vozmozhnosti

Thanx Ben for this intensely fascinating video and for sharing with us your enthusiasm for discovery of these very fine and densely populated boards; reminds me of similar ones in early Hewlett Packard computers...Cheers to you Aussies !

When the 2440 came out in 1988 it was worth $11,500USD. If you get any more oscilloscopes in good physical condition do some research and check the current prices. Even a broken one of these goes for $75-150, maybe more. A working one goes for $500-800. It was still cool watching it getting taken apart though, good stuff.

i need dat Tektronix 2440. voor fixing mijn end i need ef rieting vrom dat

Hey Ben you think maybe they used white gold on those chips they make jewelry with it

Good luck.

Can't wait to see the military eletronics, because nobody never takes apart military electronics on youtube... except me :-p

I suggest inviting some electronics hobbyists in to peruse any test equipment before you scrap it.

Tek. 300 MHz, 4 channel oscilloscope, about $100 as is, but $800 repaired. Unserviceable does not mean it can't be fixed, it just means it is not working. It can also mean it is beyond economical repair for a commercial workshop compared to its value today. Amateurs will spend hours on such stuff. Put it on ebay for $200.

Eph Payne, I'm 1st!!!! Between us!! Haha, talk to you later

usually have some mu metal in them Ben good money

first nice video love it

If you want to find more gold in laptops the touch pads have gold under them

You can sell scopes to ham radio blokes for $75 to 150. They are. GOOD at teoairs

Cool odd chips

👍

The patience of a fruit fly

Those Tektronix CRTs are different from other brands, they’re specially made and are part glass and part ceramic. The long neck where the guns and everything are located is clear glass, then there’s a ceramic middle section, and then a thick leaded glass plate is attached to the front where the display actually shows up. That whole middle ceramic section is painted on it’s inside with gold (or possibly a gold/palladium mix according to their production video). So if you’re just recycling the Tektronix CRT’s and not getting the PM value from them, then you’re throwing your money away. Also all of those 3-pin components (both the metal can type and the little black plastic ones) are transistors, not resistors. Some of the metal can type will actually have six or more legs such as the one you unplugged in the video, and those are actually IC’s.

They are transistors Ben

Aaaah thats a pity

I've done a lot of these , there is no danger with the CRT , and there is commonly a lot of gold in the CRT , many of the electron gun is gold plated , and the inside of the glass on screen end can be gold washed , if not there are silver washed --- SO DO NOT JUST scrap . I break up the glass tube and make collection of tube with gold & glass , and silver & glass .

1:02:18 is BeO, is safe until is broken...

looks like they wanted to not use some the pins

Who else got the Tektronix ads running through this video? Just me?

You could have got more selling AS-IS on eBay for those, or for parts, as that Tektronix 2440 alone goes for $130 plus AS-IS that not including shipping, as people charge separate for that. Worth way more then scrapping it for gold/copper recovery. Most test equipment goes for decent bucks, I usually repair them and then resell them. Sold a couple 2440 for $550 each that I refurbished. I pay usually around $75 to $90 for them, even if they don't power on, so long it intact broken as well as a few other engineers and techs do, as worst case we just scrap them for parts to recovery cost, if not worth repair. Granted you probably didn't know any better, but best not to scrap everything and look up going sold listings before scrapping it. I can get scrapping it if to far gone and corroded, or damaged beyond repair?

Sell those CRTs

Man this is depressing. But i guess its the circle of life.

The find are heat sinks to keep them cool. They amplify signals to make them more powerful so use electrical power tondo that

Electronic enthusiasts are crying atm watching the destruction of a $500 piece of gear.even tho it was,nt working.

military places dont repair, they replace. im dubious those were completely not repairable.

lol your going on about them dammed chips the machine was worth more as it was than anythink you get for the chip mr destruction fingers how many chips like that did you melt to get that lump of copper and gold rubish you mixed the cope was worth more to a collector i fecking cringe watching you sometimes