Re: There are lots of PDF service manuals available at...

From: Thomas P. Gootee (tomg_at_fullnet.com)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: 2 Aug 2004 07:54:32 -0700

"Ed Price" <edprice@cox.net> wrote in message news:<NjkPc.28758$mg6.15754@fed1read02>...
> "Thomas P. Gootee" <tomg@fullnet.com> wrote in message
> news:11915d6.0408011202.5096cf5b@posting.google.com...
> > Service Manuals, in PDF format:
> >
> > There are lots of SERVICE MANUALS, for electronic test equipment, and
> > comms radios, etc etc, in PDF format, available at:
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
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> > http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/manuals.htm

> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> > There are hundreds of FULL SERVICE MANUALS
>
>
> At $5 to $15 each, right Tom?
>
> A frugal person might try this first:
>
> https://www.logsa.army.mil/etms/find_etm.cfm
>
> or
>
> http://bama.sbc.edu/
>
>
>
> Ed
> WB6WSN

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Ed,

Actually, they range from $3 to $38, usually with shipping and
handling additional (although the higher-priced manuals are mostly the
ones that I sell for someone else, who works hard to create them).

Sure! LOGSA and BAMA are well known by those in the sci.electronics
groups, although I doubt that many others can mine LOGSA as thoroughly
as I have. I spent a huge amount of time and effort, and money,
developing and applying technicques for finding obscure manuals there,
and identifying the commercial model designations of the equipment
that they cover.

You needn't worry, though, Ed. Your "frugal types" are usually
hobbyists or students. For them, I have often just GIVEN away the
URLs for manuals (including many of the "unfindable" ones that I
worked so hard for), not to mention at least many hundreds of hours of
free help, advice, and technical consulting. [Of course,
unfortunately, I'll probably have to suspend those policies, for a
while, now that I've had to state them publicly.]

By the way: I buy and resell surplus and used test equipment and
electronics, too. And I also always try to make sure that I have
good-quality student/hobbyist-priced scopes, etc, in stock, even
though they are not profitable. (And, if I have the PDF manuals for
them, I throw those in.) I have spent hundreds of hours educating and
helping newbies who were trying to choose test equipment, and, for
example, parents of very young enthusiasts, who were buying their
first test equipment for their budding hobbyists and scientists.

I have loved electronics since I was a very small child. So I like to
encourage and help others who are interested in it, especially if
they're young, or just need the help.

So: selling manuals and equipment, while necessary for me for the
income it generates, also enables me to provide free help to those who
need it, and to help and encourage those who are just entering or
re-entering the field.

Nevertheless, I still deeply resent the "socialist types" who seem to
think that everything should be "free", or at cost. If that were the
case, I couldn't BE here, and wouldn't HAVE the MEANS to provide the
"newbie help" and the hobbyist/student deals, etc. (Moral: "Be careful
what you wish for. You just might get it.")

Thanks for the reply.

My used-equipment-for-sale pages are at:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/gooteesu.htm

(Tektronix, HP, and many other makes)

I also have FREE on-line plans for the cheapest and easiest-to-build
decade resistor box "ever", which I designed, at:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/gooteedr.htm

And I have complete details of a truly-great method for making printed
circuit boards (pcb's), at home, the cheapest, easiest, and fastest
way, which are the product of many years of work and many dollars, on
line for FREE, at:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/gooteepc.htm

I also sell the excellent curve tracers that I designed, AND KITS for
them, at:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/gooteect.htm

And I have some free on-line service/maintenance tips:

My page about simple repair of vacuum tube equipment (aka "It's the
capacitors, stupid!") is on line for FREE, at:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/tuberep.htm

My page about in-circuit testing of the ESR (equivalent series
resistance) of electrolytic capacitors, without buying an ESR meter,
using just a scope and a square-wave source, is on line for FREE, at:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/esrscope.htm

(Anyone doing much electronic repair work should have an ESR Meter,
though!)

I also have posted the final recipe and procedure, the product of
years of intensive research, on line for FREE, for those wanting to
make a REALLY-GOOD PIZZA CRUST (and pizza) at home, at:

http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg/pizza.htm

I have also collected a huge time-saving resource, which I have put on
line for FREE, that resulted from thousands of hours of my on-line
research, which should save countless hours for other people who are
interested in finding on-line information about things I have been
interested in: Electronics and Its Applications, Tektronix, Computers
and Programming, CNC Machines, Robotics and Control Systems, Classic
Audio, Antique Radios and Vacuuum Tubes, Searching the Web and Usenet
Newsgroups, HTML and Webpage-Publishing Tutorials, Homebrewing: Making
Beer and Wine, Astronomy, Gold Prospecting and Geology and Topography,
Classical Music, Books, Camping and Travel, Weather Forecasts and
Weather Radars and Satellites and On-line Imagery, Cooking and
Recipes, Auto Repair, Catalogs and Sources of Merchandise, Gardening
and Growing Plants/Fruits/Vegetables/Herbs, Postage Stamps and
Stamp-Collecting/Philately,
Shipping/Mail/Zipcodes/Costs/Customs/Import/Export/Supplies, Banking
and On-Line Payments, Cancer/Medicine/Health/Drugs,
Writing/Editing/Style/Grammar, Surveillance and Forensics, and other
stuff.

Regards,

Tom

Tom Gootee
tomg@fullnet.com
http://www.fullnet.com/u/tomg

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