Hi Ya'l!

I wonder if anyone here has already jumped through the hoops to
configure the test fixture input connections, build a socket switcher,
filament + screen supply etc. for a Tektronix 576 for use as a tube
c-tracer? (I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I can avoid it,
needless to say I'd like to save time/frustration...)

Thanks go to Mr. Alan Douglas, whos' (sp?) book* I bought through AES
for tipping me that the 576 would be one to have, w/1500KV available
stock for PlateV. Got one yesterday recently retired in GWO. I'm
preparing to gut a guitar amp chassis for use as my tube test fixture,
both 9pin min and 8octal for common preamp/power tube testing/matching.
Maybe two chassis's, one for each purpose?

(*'Tube Testers and Classic Electronoc Test Gear', what a great
compendem! I didn't realize other folk could be a geeked as I am about
old test gear!)

If anyone has done this before, any thoughts/guidance things-to-avoid
will be greatly appreciated, I'm anticipating that stray capacitance,
shielding, wiring layout could be issues... ...and that I'll have to
'trick' the HV interlock...any reversable mods to a stock 576 that would
make it more suitable for vacuum tube use?

Thanks very much in advance,
-Robert
QTS
http://www.Braught.com