Fluke (Wavetek) 9530 Active heads-how to?

[Bryan]

How do you open these up, have a wire making intermittent contact and I need to get inside, as best as I know there is no screws holding it together since Fluke has serviced them without damaging to old Wavetek labels.
Is there a best place to pry on them or some sort of tool?
TIA

[mdbuike]

Well, I looked at ours, and there appears to be 2 slots at the base where a tool could be inserted..be warned, I have not done this since ours are still under warranty..

I'd also ask, are you sure it's not the BNC connector wearing out..I had one go intermittant, and after looking at it, I feel the weight of the head vs. some of the old crap we maintain (465/466, etc) and the 30 year old connectors could have contributed to this.  My solution was to build a BNC female to BNC male cable (just 6 inches) so I can lay the head on the bench and still connect to the 'scope.

I hope this helps,


Mike

[Bryan]

Thanks,
Got new BNC connectors installed last year.  It's the lower cable that goes to the SMA end on the mainframe near the head that's acting up.

We have right angle adapters on ours to save the connector and also so they don't lean so hard on input connectors

[Bryan]

update for board knowledge-I found there are screws under the label on the serial # side of the thing.  Use a sharp tool to get started and carefully remove the label so it can be reused.
Splits right open.