What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[McBryce]

Who in their right mind will pay thousands of $ for only a single pcb of many needed for a piece of computer antique ?

People will pay a lot of money for old computers if they want them bad enough: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-RARE-Commodore-65-Prototype-/223509001295

McBryce.

[rsjsouza]

People will pay a lot of money for old computers if they want them bad enough: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-RARE-Commodore-65-Prototype-/223509001295

McBryce.

Wow, that's... Wow. At first I thought the ended listing was closed by the seller, until I saw the bids...

[CJay]

People will pay a lot of money for old computers if they want them bad enough: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ultra-RARE-Commodore-65-Prototype-/223509001295

McBryce.

Wow, that's... Wow. At first I thought the ended listing was closed by the seller, until I saw the bids...

Yeah, but there were only a couple of hundred ever made so...

[TerraHertz]

An old HP 1630D logic analyzer.

Recently one of my lovable nearly-grown-up kittens discovered that the pod flying leads of my old 1630G were fun to cut with his very sharp teeth. I caught him after he'd neatly severed only two wires, but damn... Those wires are special. Fine, very flexible, with brightly colored teflon insulation. I repaired them, but this reminded me I have no spares for that machine, other than a small stock of ECL chips.

Ventured into ebay meaning to buy some spare pod-lead sets, but instead found a whole 1630D. Looking good, working. Got it for $15. But the shipping, arrgh!  Anyway, it's here now and works. It's amazingly pristine, for something so old. Very light dusting inside.  All metal inside and out still looks new.

Now where am I going to keep it?

[cat87]

I got this little thing,  mainly because it was there and it looked nice and it had the right price tag on it. Well,  ok,  I need it for that odd job or two that might pop up..
It's a Stahlwille  775a torque screwdriver. So what if it's in inch pounds... I still like it 

[maginnovision]

Some pictures of my volt-ohm box.

Edit: one more half cleaned.

[vk6zgo]

An old HP 1630D logic analyzer.

Recently one of my lovable nearly-grown-up kittens discovered that the pod flying leads of my old 1630G were fun to cut with his very sharp teeth. I caught him after he'd neatly severed only two wires, but damn... Those wires are special. Fine, very flexible, with brightly colored teflon insulation. I repaired them, but this reminded me I have no spares for that machine, other than a small stock of ECL chips.

Ventured into ebay meaning to buy some spare pod-lead sets, but instead found a whole 1630D. Looking good, working. Got it for $15. But the shipping, arrgh!  Anyway, it's here now and works. It's amazingly pristine, for something so old. Very light dusting inside.  All metal inside and out still looks new.

Now where am I going to keep it?

My cat did that to the silicone rubber insulated lead on my Weller TCPT iron.
It looked just like it had been neatly sliced through with a very sharp set of sidecutters!
My iron looked stupid for years, with a little terminal block halfway down the lead.

[Bud]

I love this thread. So many interesting things people buy 

[Housedad]

Just ordered a Tripp-Lite 24 outlet power strip ps7224.  I got real tired of all the smaller strips.  I'm going to mount it on the wall behind the bench.

[hugo]

A crimping tool made in Japan:

[beanflying]

A small stash of short 5V RGB strips and controllers to help me play with my Laser Cutter  eBay auction: #253895081804

Bright white is good but colour is more fun.

[xrunner]

Those are very nice beanflying. 

[djos]

Just ordered a Tripp-Lite 24 outlet power strip ps7224.  I got real tired of all the smaller strips.  I'm going to mount it on the wall behind the bench.

I really need something like that too! Currently, I have about 5 power boards daisy chained! 

[beanflying]

Those are very nice beanflying. 

Just about got it to where I am really happy with it. 3DP prototype behind has given way to a Five layer Laser cut stacked base which is heavier and much more stable (also much faster to make) so I have pumped up the blade height just a touch. Also redid yesterdays Tek logo with a slightly heavier engrave which sorted out the missing fine details.

[maginnovision]

Those are very nice beanflying. 

Just about got it to where I am really happy with it. 3DP prototype behind has given way to a Five layer Laser cut stacked base which is heavier and much more stable (also much faster to make) so I have pumped up the blade height just a touch. Also redid yesterdays Tek logo with a slightly heavier engrave which sorted out the missing fine details.

Those look great, what's the thickness?

[beanflying]

Those are very nice beanflying. 

Just about got it to where I am really happy with it. 3DP prototype behind has given way to a Five layer Laser cut stacked base which is heavier and much more stable (also much faster to make) so I have pumped up the blade height just a touch. Also redid yesterdays Tek logo with a slightly heavier engrave which sorted out the missing fine details.

Those look great, what's the thickness?

3mm Blades. 2mm would be harder to shove the light up and more fragile and 4.5 unless doing much larger panels would be OTT so I think it is about the best compromise.

[Wigo]

 Got my first O-scope today.

An Agilent 54622D. Found it locally and it needs a little bit of cleaning and some work for the carrying handle but it works fine.
And i only paid 150€

I just checked and it has the logic probes included 🎉🎊

[xrunner]

Got my first O-scope today.

An Agilent 54622D. Found it locally and it needs a little bit of cleaning and some work for the carrying handle but it works fine.
And i only paid 150€

I just checked and it has the logic probes included 🎉🎊

Great! I got one too a couple of years ago, but no logic probes. If your buttons aren't as responsive as you'd like, you can take apart the front pretty easily and clean the components. 

[bitseeker]

Hopefully, it doesn't also have blocked ports.

[beanflying]

A $100AUpeso Spraycan  Worth it or not time will tell 

[Mr.B]

A $100AUpeso Spraycan  Worth it or not time will tell

If it is anything like CerMark, that I have used in the past, it is absolutely brilliant on stainless steel.
To get very dark black images you need a reasonably good power. I have a 50W VersaLaser brand machine.

Product info: https://cermarksales.com/collections/lmm-6060/products/lmm-6060-black-for-metals-50-grams-liquid

edit: Added link to the 50g bottles I have purchased in the past.

[beanflying]

A $100AUpeso Spraycan  Worth it or not time will tell

If it is anything like CerMark, that I have used in the past, it is absolutely brilliant on stainless steel.
To get very dark black images you need a reasonably good power. I have a 50W VersaLaser brand machine.

Product info: https://cermarksales.com/collections/lmm-6060/products/lmm-6060-black-for-metals-50-grams-liquid

edit: Added link to the 50g bottles I have purchased in the past.

Made by the guy that founded Thermark so it has good parentage. It comes out on top over Cermark on a lot of materials. I have a tame sheetmetal supplier with CNC metal cutting abilities and I have the little Laser to finish them. I actually have a commercial job to do in Stainless and I also have one for me in Aluminium which will be interesting. https://lasersupplies.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/LaserBond-Technology-Flyer.pdf

[MrMobodies]

I brought some of these:



and some of these BGAF type SSD's:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fast-256GB-Native-SATA-III-2-5-SSD-550-420-MB-s-R-W-No-Case/292877541566?

And it seems to outperform a Kingston 400 in latency and Input Outputs per second on a USB 3 ASMT controller.

[McBryce]

My GS110EMX switch has arrived.



Hold my beer. Netgear has the world's best thermal design -- a blocked vent, and the world's best anti-theft design -- a blocked Kensington lock hole.

Is the case top perhaps on the wrong way around?
Not that Netgear aren't capable of such stupidity. My Netgear Nighthawk router had to be downgraded to a two year old firmware to get it to stay online and not keep disconnecting.

McBryce.

[rsjsouza]

Quick update on the GS110EMX switch. Its latest firmware doesn't work out of the box, and I had to downgrade to the previous firmware. And as usual, Amazon provided zero help other than return it and STFU.

I'm now really impressed by NetGear and its remarkable marketing team. It seems a good marketing team can drag a crippled engineering team out of death.

Interesting; I have a mixed bag of experiences with Netgear. Circa 2007 I had a printer server (USB-Ethernet adapter) that was a POS, but at more or less at the same time, their Wi-Fi router replaced a terrible WRT54G from Linksys that was plagued by constant disconnections and instability.

At work I heavily used both Netgear and Dlink - the latter had an edge over the former.

Currently I have their four bay NAS that works very well for me, but my dad's failed quite early.