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[precaud]

Some SMA adaptors and patch cables from china

I'm guessing your are happy with the quality, or you would have complained.

Who is the supplier? I'll be needing some SMA-BNC adapters soon.

[capt bullshot]

Some SMA adaptors and patch cables from china

I'm guessing your are happy with the quality, or you would have complained.

Who is the supplier? I'll be needing some SMA-BNC adapters soon.

They're from an ebay shop, areyourshop-003. Electrically the cables and adaptes look OK on the 1502C TDR. Mechanically, the BNC plugs leave some room for enhancement. When plugging or unplugging them, they often don't move easily. SMA connectors are good enough for me, not as nice as the real good ones.

[GreyWoolfe]

I picked a few things up from Banggood.  Another Wiha screwdriver set to put in my toolbag in my company van.  I really like this set and I bought the second set on sale for $17, which was quite nice.  The wire strippers work much better than the cheap crap I had, I haven't yet tried the crimpers--again, better quality than what I had and they are ratcheting.  I haven't yet tried the deburring tool but have wanted one and finally, a cheap stripped screw removal set.  If it works half way decently, I might spring for a better, locally sourced set.

[TERRA Operative]

Those screw extractors are good. I use them to good effect to remove stripped server mounting screws in server racks.

Saved me a couple times now when the derp who installed the equipment didn't know about the torque setting on his battery drill....

[GreyWoolfe]

Those screw extractors are good. I use them to good effect to remove stripped server mounting screws in server racks.

Saved me a couple times now when the derp who installed the equipment didn't know about the torque setting on his battery drill....

I am not too ashamed to admit that I have stripped a screw or 2.     Just saving me from myself. 

[Terry01]

More junk! 

The Mrs is correct! "i collect some junk"! 

[Terry01]

More junk! 

I found that getting some good (real copper, not phosphorus copper or copper cladded aluminum) jumper wires is actually hard these days from the bay or Amazon.
Adafruit is my current choice -- I know they have decent markup, but I don't want to wait for the month long shipping from a genuine Chinese seller, not do I want to pay $$$ for a Western branded cable.

I'll give them a look for sure! I agree getting decent stuff like that is becoming more challenging for sure!

Thanks for the tip! 

[Kjelt]

More junk! 

I found that getting some good (real copper, not phosphorus copper or copper cladded aluminum) jumper wires is actually hard these days from the bay or Amazon.
Adafruit is my current choice -- I know they have decent markup, but I don't want to wait for the month long shipping from a genuine Chinese seller, not do I want to pay $$$ for a Western branded cable.

Its even worse many are magnetic so they have crusty rusty iron in them 

[Terry01]

More junk! 

I found that getting some good (real copper, not phosphorus copper or copper cladded aluminum) jumper wires is actually hard these days from the bay or Amazon.
Adafruit is my current choice -- I know they have decent markup, but I don't want to wait for the month long shipping from a genuine Chinese seller, not do I want to pay $$$ for a Western branded cable.

Its even worse many are magnetic so they have crusty rusty iron in them 

Awe! Rust is never good! 

[deadlylover]

Got the Pressmaster crimper today, thanks @nanofrog I wouldn't have known to search for Pressmaster if you hadn't mentioned it in an old post when giving advice on crimp tools.

I still have trouble crimping AWG 22 wire to a red terminal (AWG22-18), but the specs mention 0.75mm^2 minimum even though it also says AWG22-10, go figure.  (it's only for DIY hobby stuff so I just fold over the wire if I have to)

It works BEAUTIFULLY with AWG 18 wire on red terminals though, I'm very happy with it especially because I practically stole the damn thing. For any Aussies out there you can find still it on eBay if you search 'pressmaster' but the price went up to approx 50 dollarydoos shipped.

The bottom corner has a non slip pad so you can press it against the desk and it won't budge, very useful if you have girly hands like me and you can kind of focus on positioning the wire and terminal instead of worrying about squeezing it hard enough.

Now I'll be on the lookout for used crimpers from this day on in case I find an old AMP one for cheap to slowly build the collection. 

[Zucca]

Had to hurry a bit before GB exits the EU to get it without having to pay customs fees..   
_{BTW: I'd like to see the Brits not leaving the EU, but that's only my point of view. Don't want to discuss politics here.}

Wow... drollll on the milliohmmeter.

I love the GB gents, I am sad too. Anyway if GB is out I don't have anymore to pay the VAT on TopLoser items. Don't know if the custom fee will be more thow....

[TERRA Operative]

Got some Deoxit fader today for the restorations of all the gear I find in Akihabara.
It's a little bit hard to find here and a little expensive, but worth it for how well the stuff works.
I already have the classic, fader and gold in spray cans, but this 100% dropper style will help me not make a complete mess of things all the time.

[Zucca]

An emergency button



Hopefully it's the last time I will deal unsafely with live 220Vac voltages... 

[Zucca]

Another Wiha screwdriver set

Very nice, also with the bastard infamous triangular security bit...

[TERRA Operative]

With all that bad luck with bad pixels, have you tried cleaning your glasses? 

[SeanB]

An emergency button



Hopefully it's the last time I will deal unsafely with live 220Vac voltages... 

Just remember those contacts in there are not rated for continuous operation at 10A, and also they are not fail safe when disconnecting into a high current. They tend to weld together under heavy load, so best used in conjunction with a sensitive 16A AC1 rated contactor. Those at least will, when paired with the appropriate overload, provide good protection. Hope you also got some LED power on indicators to go with them.

[PA0PBZ]

So that is why my box-o-magic has a relay

[gamalot]

My new ThinkPad X1 Carbon has arrived, ... with 2 dead pixels.
I didn't want to create more eWaste, so I decided not to return the entire unit, instead I ordered a service request for a screen swap.
Fingers crossed for the new screen, though I don't expect much on a single swapping.
My luck with LCDs are never great! I swapped 3 Surface Pro 1 units and 3 Surface Go units before, and I know my coming fate .

I think I should share my experience with you. Since I returned a Samsung monitor with thousands of dead points 10 years ago, I have never encountered the same trouble. 

[TheSteve]

My new ThinkPad X1 Carbon has arrived, ... with 2 dead pixels.
I didn't want to create more eWaste, so I decided not to return the entire unit, instead I ordered a service request for a screen swap.
Fingers crossed for the new screen, though I don't expect much on a single swapping.
My luck with LCDs are never great! I swapped 3 Surface Pro 1 units and 3 Surface Go units before, and I know my coming fate .

Yep, get that screen replaced. I assume you got the HDR model?

[TheSteve]

Yep, get that screen replaced. I assume you got the HDR model?

Correct.

Very nice, there seems to be some question on if it really is HDR on the Lenovo forums. It seems to depend on your definition of "HDR".
I was sad they stopped shipping OLED models so I'm sticking with my Yoga X1 gen II - I can't give up the screen.

[gamalot]

Yep, get that screen replaced. I assume you got the HDR model?

Correct.

I think I should share my experience with you. Since I returned a Samsung monitor with thousands of dead points 10 years ago, I have never encountered the same trouble. 

Did you mean a deal line or some tab/cog/tcon issues? If a panel itself has that many bad pixels, I wonder how on earth it did pass QC?

Thousands of dead points. I was told that it was because of the sealing problem at the time of manufacture. 

[gamalot]

A USB floppy drive and 10 diskettes. 

[Zucca]

Just remember those contacts in there are not rated for continuous operation at 10A, and also they are not fail safe when disconnecting into a high current. Hope you also got some LED power on indicators to go with them.

It's for a 450W 220VAC Max load, it should be safe. I did not know that thow... sometime I am lucky. Thanks I appreciate the advise!
Yes I have LED for it!

So that is why my box-o-magic has a relay

Oh oh, well done but for me too big and too heavy...
PS: They need to develop a new method to reduce the weight and dimension of a 3KW variable transformer..

[tooki]

A USB floppy drive and 10 diskettes. 

Of course, Mac OS X has been read-only for HFS floppies for many years now!

[gamalot]

A USB floppy drive and 10 diskettes. 

Of course, Mac OS X has been read-only for HFS floppies for many years now!

Actually I gonna need them to upgrade my TEK TDS3014B oscilloscope (still in transit).