After seeing my fuel injector tester video, a viewer named Duncan heard me say, twice in fact, that I wanted to acquire an oscilloscope for my electronics work. Well it just so happened that he had a Tektronix 7633 hanging around that he no longer needed. Duncan sent me an email offering to give the scope if I would agree to pay for the shipping. Of course I said yes! How awesome! A free Oscilloscope!!!
So within a few weeks he got it all boxed up and shipped via Fedex. It arrived yesterday…
It seemed to be in one piece so I plugged it in and turned it on. I could hear the cooling fan and the reticule light came on but it made a strange arcing sound inside and the beam trace never came on the CRT. After several minutes I turned it off fearing the worst. I took into my lab and set on the bench to open it up and investigate. As I was removing the side panels a small piece of glass fell on the bench. Not good. Once the panels were removed, what I saw made me want to cry like a whimpering geek…
Sure enough, the thing had been dropped and the CRT was broken! Disappointment soon turned to anger towards Fedex and their lousy handling of a package marked “super sensitive electronic equipment”. It’s obvious by looking at the back corners of the box that it had been dropped and or handled in a rough manner more than once.
Back to the surgery… after removing a few more panels and screws, I was able to extract what was left of the poor CRT…
Sad… very sad
So FedEx gets a big THUMBS DOWN! Shame on you!
Duncan gets a big shout out for being a very cool, generous man. Thanks Duncan!
Dino