Changes
- 2018-06-15: updated test lead listing
General
Manuals
- BAMA, the Boat Anchor Manual Archive
- Didier's site (KO4BB)
- Ebaman (registration required, but painless and no spam)
- Tubular Electronics
- Heathkit Schematic and Manual Archive
Books
- Alan Douglas, Tube Testers and Classic Electronic Test Gear, Sonoran Pub; First edition (August 1, 2000), ISBN-13: 978-1886606142
- Stan Griffiths, Oscilloscopes: Selecting and Restoring a Classic, Stanley A Griffiths (June 1992), ISBN-13: 978-0963307156
- Chuck Penson, Heathkit Test Equipment Products, self-published, First edition (2014), ISBN-13: 978-0615991337
- Arthur E. Thiessen, A History of the General Radio Company, General Radio Company, 1965
- Jeff Tranter, Classic Heathkit Electronic Test Equipment, self-published, First edition (October 28, 2013), ISBN-13: 978-0992138202
Fluke
Fluke electronic and mechanical parts
Fluke info, museums, and collections
GR (General Radio)
GR info, museums, and collections
- General Radio Historical Society, see also http://ietlabs.com/genradhistoricalsociety/
- Arthur E. Thiessen, A History of the General Radio Company, General Radio Company, 1965
- General Radio Experimenters
- General Radio Historic Manuals
- General Radio Historic Catalogs
- Dale Cook's General Radio collection (Star City Antique Radios and Test Equipment)
- General Radio Yahoo group
Heathkit
Heathkit electronic and mechanical parts
- Data Professionals Heathkit manuals and parts
Heathkit info, museums, and collections
- Heathkit Virtual Museum
- Nostalgic Kits Central Heathkit Test Equipment Matrix
- Chuck Penson, Heathkit Test Equipment Products, self-published, First edition (2014), ISBN-13: 978-0615991337
- Jeff Tranter, Classic Heathkit Electronic Test Equipment, self-published, First edition (October 28, 2013), ISBN-13: 978-0992138202
HP (Hewlett-Packard)
HP electronic and mechanical parts
- Sphere Research HP parts
- Kiss Electronics has HP-410B and 401C probe parts and triax cable. Also replacement boards for HP-410C.
HP enclosure parts
- Brettuns Village handles
- leather handles for HP tube gear: SCH-32?, SCH-201, SCH-202 (can anyone confirm if the SCH-32 fits an HP-410B, etc?)
- plastic strap handles for HP solid-state gear: SCH-09? (can anyone confirm if the SCH-09 fits an HP-400E, etc?)
- J Allen Call <w7ksg@q.com> has "NEW replacement black colored leather handles for the 410B. They are $19.95 each. New leather with stitching. You have to remove the metal holders that the handles fit into and slide the handles into the new holders then reattach the holders to the 410B."
- Kiss Electronics "Leather handle replacement kit" for HP-410B's
HP info, museums and collections
- HP Journal online issues
- HP Archive
- HP archive Yahoo group
- HP/Agilent Test Equipment Yahoo group
- Vintage HP catalogs
- Kenneth Kuhn's Online HP Museum
- Barrytech's HP page
Hickok
Hickok info, museums and collections
- Hickok, Inc. is still in business, although they no longer manufacture tube testers or other electronic test equipment.
- Steve Johnson's Hickok test equipment collection
Hickok tube tester info, museums and collections
- A recommended list of Hickok tube testers
- Padgett's Hickok page
- Tone-lizard Hickok page
- Nolan Lee's site
- José V. Gavilla's TV-7 Tube Tester page
- JAC Music's Hickok Tube Tester info
- Radiola Guy's Gallery of Hickok Test Equipment
- Kenneth Kuhn's Online HP Museum
- Barrytech's HP page
Precision
Precision info, museums and collections
- Chris' Old Radios Precision tube tester data and other test equipment data.
Simpson Electric
Simpson electronic and mechanical parts
- Simpson Electric may be able to supply replacement parts for current products.
- Simpson has sometimes suggested Scherrer Instruments as a supplier of replacement parts for older Simpson products.
- Instrument Meter Specialties may be able to supply replacement parts for Simpson products.
- Among other parts, IMS has Simpson 260 battery clips, both the D-cell/AA-cell end clips (left in photo), Simpson P/N 03-811310, and the corner or J-clips, (right in photo), discontinued Simpson P/N 03-190012, replacements fabricated by IMS.
Simpson info, museums, and collections
Supreme
Superem info, museums and collections
- Steve Johnson's Supreme Instruments information, manuals, and collection
Tek (Tektronix)
Tek electronic and mechanical parts
Tek info, museums, and collections
- vintageTek Tektronix museum
- Tek Wiki
- Barrytech's Tektronix Vintage Equipment page
- Bill and Stan's Tektronix Resource Site
- Julian Bunn's Collection of Tektronix Oscilloscopes and Plug Ins
- Richard Heming's Museum of Classic Tektronix Scopes
- Stan Griffiths, Oscilloscopes: Selecting and Restoring a Classic, Stanley A Griffiths (June 1992), ISBN-13: 978-0963307156
- tekscope Yahoo group
- TekScopes2 Yahoo group fork of the tekscope Yahoo group
Other
Test leads
- Sadly, Oldaker shut down due to a fire. They made nice test leads in a variety of styles. They were the OEM leads and probes supplier to Triplett for many years. They now sell Probe Master and Mueller probes through their USProbes.net web-store, and it looks like they may still have a few of the Oldaker leads left.
- Probe Master
- Mueller
- Test probes
- Threaded alligator clips – thread on to probe tips
- Spring clip alligator clips – slip on 0.080” tip plug or probe tip
Other enclosure parts
- Brettuns Village leather handles
Other info, museums and collections
- Ron Lawrence's Clough-Brengle collection
- Steve Johnson's Supreme Instruments collection
- QTH.net Test-Equipment email list
- Vintage Test Equipment Yahoo group
- Test-Equipment Yahoo group
- Chuck's Vintage Radio & TV Vintage Test Equipment page
Repair services
- TV-7 tube tester repair - Daniel Nelson, email: djn@ieee.org
- Instrument Meter Specialties - Simpson (and some Triplett) VOM repair.
- J. Allen Call <w7ksg@q.com> repairs Simpson VOMs
- Atlanta Tube Amp - tube tester repair