[sdiy] O'scope recommend - remove the graticule

[Tom Bugs]

Cheers Tom, but I think that's a step too far for this project!
It is for one of the well known Bristol bands and we need things to be 
stable/reliable/not-cobbled-together.
Cheers, Tom

On 23/08/2011 16:56, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> Could you modify an old CRT telly or monitor?
>
> There are loads (skipsful) of nice large CRT screens kicking about for no money (=very cheap experiments) and I've seen various sites with mods to make them into oscilloscopes. After all, the guts of it is a ramp for horizontal scanning and a signal amplifier for vertical deflection - not beyond the likes of us, I'd have thought. Just be careful not to zap yourself.
>
> I remember seeing such a thing at the Exploratorium in San Francisco back in 1989. It struck me then as a pretty cool thing to do, and given that memory has remained with me whereas most of last week is a blank, it must have made quite an impression ;)
>
> T.
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> On 23 Aug 2011, at 10:01, Tom Bugs wrote:
>
>> Hiya,
>>
>> I'm looking for recommendations on oscilloscopes which have removable graticules (the grid lines over the display).
>> I'm helping a friend put together a video synth system, beginning with vector rescanning and the results would be best without lines over the screen.
>> Many modern scopes have the lines actually etched into the display tube, but I'm sure that quite a lot of older 'scopes may have removable graticules - basically we don't want to go purchasing 'blind'.
>>
>> There was a thread started about such things at the MuffWiggler site - http://muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29973
>> - here the Tektronix T-922 was recommended but these seem to be US models in general. And there's not much more for suggestions..
>>
>> On a similar note - does anyone know a good 2nd hand 'scope shop in the UK?
>> I know there are always lots on Ebay, but so many of them are being sold by people who don't know how they work - it is hit&  miss as to whether you'll get something any good.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Tom
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