Hickok 209a v.t.v.m.

[Tubejunke]

Just wondering if anyone here has one of these and/or has brought one back from the dead. I am lucky enough to have one decent shape with both the AC probe and the correct DC probe as well. That's a HUGE plus from what I hear.

Anyway, nobody has been inside the thing as far as past repair other than changing the twin D cells for resistance measurements. But the meter is frankly all out of whack. I haven't seen a function yet that it is even able to begin to take a measurement as some functions and ranges cause weird mid scale meter deflection or like the +DC function slams the meter to the left. I did find a questionable rectifier between the two that it has, but adding a better one didn't change anything.

I'm guessing that like most things that old (early 50s I think), the caps have got to go. That's probably what it will all boil down to. Luckily, there only seems to be a few caps in the unit. So maybe it won't take much to bring back what is supposed to be one of the best bench VTVMs ever made.

B.T.W., I have downloaded the user and repair .pdf files. I don't think that they have calibration instructions which I would like to get if anyone has them.