Fixing an HP3455A multimeter

Probably some ignorant person was bored enough to go buy a new cap and decided to terminate a well working unit.

I would also check the same cap on the other unit also just out of curiosity.

 

This is the way my company does it:
Some production-line will shut down. The test instruments involved will be 'surplused', meaning anybody else anywhere in the company can ask for any of the instruments if any of them are something they also use. Anything
not claimed in-house, gets sent to a liquidator.
The up-and-running production-lines also occasionally will shut-down one line of production, usually keeping the
un-used instruments for their other operational product lines. If I need a part, I can try to buy a new one, OR, I
can go into those unused instruments and salvage parts out of them. Depending on company rules, I MAY be able to just replaced the broken unit with one of the working ones from the shut-down production line; or I may be required
to salvage parts from the instruments from the shut-down production line. Why? Because my company owns some
of the instruments used in production, and some other company or the gov't may own other instruments, and there
are rules about 'sharing' the instruments or parts. I don't make the rules, but you can bet your life I gotta follow them.
Some test equipment cannot be salvaged (rules), some can be 'kept for parts' units, and some can have their ownership 'transferred' (more rules).
You got, by one rule or another, an instrument that was 'kept for parts', which was apparently originally working, but
could not be placed back into service. Somebody like me salvaged the shield and the cap to repair another instrument, and when we ran out of room in our 'kept for parts' salvage yard, surplused it to make room for other
incoming production-line-shut-down instruments.
Just buying the shield and cap is a bugaboo all buy itself. There are rules for purchasing parts too. If somebody has a production-line shut down and it's critical to get it back up running again ASAP,
we have to follow the rules to do whatever we have to do to put the instrument back into service ASAP.
It doesn't makes sense sometimes, but the rules is the rules.

 

Ok. I think i understand.

 

Hellas Techn, YOU DO?????
Please explain it to me. What they make me do at my job has NEVER made any sense to me.
They tell me I'm just a tech, and management sees the 'big picture', where everything is clear to them(?)

 

Or, as they say in the McChicken business: parts is parts.

 

I'm sure management at the companies that helped supply your needs, were happy to rid themselves of their
surplus items. The 'big picture' after all for management, is NEW sales.