Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Specmaster]

Err, no, I can't see any such link in your post at all 

[tggzzz]

I wouldn’t want to stop too quick with that load 

Think of it as a humane killer, cf how you are supposed to kill lobsters/crabs with a pick.

Alternatively, remember that the "shared space" road enthusiasts (who remove signs and kerbs etc) trumpet the mantra that "very dangerous is safe".

[Robert763]

Why not is only a slightly crusty Anchor 

Seems I added one to my lot eBay auction: #133645371427 I hold no real hopes for it. Worst case is is an expensive Fluke Box Might be some hope it is some Black wire cancer under the hood.

The IR link cable and software added to the case make it at least break even

[Specmaster]

This is a pretty awesome 4x4 bus, it would make the basis of a wonderful camper as well.

[bd139]

Oh great another eBay fucknugget.

So buys a motherboard off me for £10 off the price, I ship it UPS 24 which is better then the specified 2 days dispatch followed by “packlink generic 2-3 days”. UPS has taken one extra day so far and he’s opened a case against me because he couldn’t build a PC with his son this weekend. Boo fucking hoo. You’re getting a second hand motherboard via economy delivery which I upgraded FOC from a private seller and are complaining. Cunt.

[Robert763]

I've always Fancied a 101" FC Radio Body

Immediately made me think of Terrängbil 11, or as its known globally, Volvo C303:

How about something with ground clearance due to interesting axles: the UniMog...

The C303 has portal axles, just like the Unimog (it's in the Wikipedia article I linked  ):

The C3 series feature portal axles with locking differentials resulting in very high ground-clearance (similar to the Unimog) and outstanding performance offroad.

As does the Pinzgauer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinzgauer_High-Mobility_All-Terrain_Vehicle

[AVGresponding]

Oh great another eBay fucknugget.

So buys a motherboard off me for £10 off the price, I ship it UPS 24 which is better then the specified 2 days dispatch followed by “packlink generic 2-3 days”. UPS has taken one extra day so far and he’s opened a case against me because he couldn’t build a PC with his son this weekend. Boo fucking hoo. You’re getting a second hand motherboard via economy delivery which I upgraded FOC from a private seller and are complaining. Cunt.

fleabay need to add a filter so you can exclude entitled millennials from buying your stuff.

[DC1MC]

Something for German voltnuts:
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/fluke-5200a-ac-kalibrator-5105b-dmm-5215a/1648283804-168-8132

[Robert763]

For those that don't know, a portal axle has a pinion and gear wheel in the hub. Advantages are high ground clearance, lightweight (high speed, low torque) driveshfts and differentials and high wheel torque. Disadvantages are high unsprung weight, high center of gravity, mechanical complication, high mechanical losses, high maintence costs. Great for off-road, no great for high speeds. or fuel consumption.

[med6753]

Who pissed in your cornflakes then 

Has your Cavalier even got ABS on it? Mine didn't. If any of the things on my car packed up, I'd still be able to drive and handle it, when I did my apprenticeship on the buses, it was company policy that anyone who would ever have to drive a bus for what ever reason, had to go through their driving school for training. When it was time, I had to go out for a day with a load of other trainees who were being trained to be full time PSV holding bus drivers. They all took a turn in the driver's seat of a double-decker while I sat and waited. We pulled into Braintree depot and had lunch, after which the instructor said it was my turn in the seat and I got to drive back from Braintree to Chelmsford depot in the snow. The instructor went straight to my mechanical superintendent and asked him what was the big idea of sending me over to the driving school, he said that he had never seen driving skills like it and that I from that point on cleared to drive  . When there was a broken down bus and the mechanics were already out in the breakdown truck, I'd get sent out with a replacement bus so that the driver could transfer his passengers to it and continue the journey. I'd have to effect whatever repairs were needed to get the broken bus driveable and limp it back to the depot. I never failed to get back unaided.

The Vauxhall Cavalier I owned in the late '80s indeed predated ABS.

And you are only proving my point; you were taught how to drive without all the modern crap, as was I. Consequently we do know how to react when things go wrong. Modern drivers, for the most part do not, and frequently only find out that fact at speeds we would have struggled to reach in similar conditions, in the vehicles of the day.

Ditto. And you would be surprised how many Americans, even folks my age, have absolutely no clue how to drive a manual gearbox. Present a typical driver with a vehicle with 3 pedals and it's total panic. Automatic transmissions really started to take over in the 1960's and many folks never had to drive a stick and never learned.

My father was "old fashioned" and all his vehicles were manual gearbox. So it was either learn how to drive it or walk. I learned and initially I hated it and wanted a car with an automatic but found out in due time that automatics were unreliable and not much fun to drive.

So...fast forward to today. There's only a select few cars in the American market that offer a manual transmission. The Civic still does. And if I happen to have someone in the passenger seat who never learned they are fascinated watching me row the gears but also remark that they want nothing to do with it. Can't drink coffee and eat a donut if you have to change gears. 

And....no one EVER asks to borrow your car.     

[capt bullshot]

Something for German voltnuts:
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/fluke-5200a-ac-kalibrator-5105b-dmm-5215a/1648283804-168-8132

This combo has been seen here before, can't remember ATM where. Wonder if someone bought it from ebay and tries to re-sell.

[beanflying]

Something for German voltnuts:
https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/fluke-5200a-ac-kalibrator-5105b-dmm-5215a/1648283804-168-8132

Forklift both ends and reinforced floor needed Not sure about the 5105B (haven't looked) but the 5102B I have is really only good for 4 1/2 toward maybe 5 1/2 digit gear.

[med6753]

So I fall back to sleep and wake up about 2 hours later and here she is, sitting in the chair doing her knitting and watching Law and Order - UK. I don't get this fascination with British TV. 

[bd139]

Oh great another eBay fucknugget.

So buys a motherboard off me for £10 off the price, I ship it UPS 24 which is better then the specified 2 days dispatch followed by “packlink generic 2-3 days”. UPS has taken one extra day so far and he’s opened a case against me because he couldn’t build a PC with his son this weekend. Boo fucking hoo. You’re getting a second hand motherboard via economy delivery which I upgraded FOC from a private seller and are complaining. Cunt.

fleabay need to add a filter so you can exclude entitled millennials from buying your stuff.

If only!

[beanflying]

So I fall back to sleep and wake up about 2 hours later and here she is, sitting in the chair doing her knitting and watching Law and Order - UK. I don't get this fascination with British TV. 

Trust me it can get a whole lot worse. My Ex Red Headed Pom developed a horrible addiction to Aussie trash soaps prior to arriving from Lincoln. 1 1/2 hours 5 nights a week of dribble with religious like fervor as Australia was supposed to be just like that IRL. Failed to heed the warning bells in my brain way to long

[med6753]

So I fall back to sleep and wake up about 2 hours later and here she is, sitting in the chair doing her knitting and watching Law and Order - UK. I don't get this fascination with British TV. 

Trust me it can get a whole lot worse. My Ex Red Headed Pom developed a horrible addiction to Aussie trash soaps prior to arriving from Lincoln. 1 1/2 hours 5 nights a week of dribble with religious like fervor as Australia was supposed to be just like that IRL. Failed to heed the warning bells in my brain way to long

Oh I hear you. My Puerto Rican ex used to watch those Spanish "novellas" or soap operas and I couldn't understand a word of it. But it did have a lot of damn fine looking babes running around acting stupid.   

[Specmaster]

Who pissed in your cornflakes then 

Has your Cavalier even got ABS on it? Mine didn't. If any of the things on my car packed up, I'd still be able to drive and handle it, when I did my apprenticeship on the buses, it was company policy that anyone who would ever have to drive a bus for what ever reason, had to go through their driving school for training. When it was time, I had to go out for a day with a load of other trainees who were being trained to be full time PSV holding bus drivers. They all took a turn in the driver's seat of a double-decker while I sat and waited. We pulled into Braintree depot and had lunch, after which the instructor said it was my turn in the seat and I got to drive back from Braintree to Chelmsford depot in the snow. The instructor went straight to my mechanical superintendent and asked him what was the big idea of sending me over to the driving school, he said that he had never seen driving skills like it and that I from that point on cleared to drive  . When there was a broken down bus and the mechanics were already out in the breakdown truck, I'd get sent out with a replacement bus so that the driver could transfer his passengers to it and continue the journey. I'd have to effect whatever repairs were needed to get the broken bus driveable and limp it back to the depot. I never failed to get back unaided.

The Vauxhall Cavalier I owned in the late '80s indeed predated ABS.

And you are only proving my point; you were taught how to drive without all the modern crap, as was I. Consequently we do know how to react when things go wrong. Modern drivers, for the most part do not, and frequently only find out that fact at speeds we would have struggled to reach in similar conditions, in the vehicles of the day.

Ditto. And you would be surprised how many Americans, even folks my age, have absolutely no clue how to drive a manual gearbox. Present a typical driver with a vehicle with 3 pedals and it's total panic. Automatic transmissions really started to take over in the 1960's and many folks never had to drive a stick and never learned.

My father was "old fashioned" and all his vehicles were manual gearbox. So it was either learn how to drive it or walk. I learned and initially I hated it and wanted a car with an automatic but found out in due time that automatics were unreliable and not much fun to drive.

So...fast forward to today. There's only a select few cars in the American market that offer a manual transmission. The Civic still does. And if I happen to have someone in the passenger seat who never learned they are fascinated watching me row the gears but also remark that they want nothing to do with it. Can't drink coffee and eat a donut if you have to change gears. 

And....no one EVER asks to borrow your car.     

Well I don't know about the US but over here we have 2 types of driving licences, A/ Manual boxes and B/ Auto transmissions. Type B is only allowed to drive AT's but pass the type A driving test, and you're OK then to drive both classes and I think it is true to say that today more people hold type B licences.

In the early days auto boxes were not only expensive, but they were unreliable, so most people went for manuals, these days the cost of an auto is less and so autos used to be the domain of big luxury barges, but they have come full circle, they are generally more or at least as reliable and in some cases the manual versions are sold at a premium. With the modern DSG autos, they are faster and just as fuel efficient as a manual box variant. As mentioned in an earlier posting, I'm used to driving big buses and also trucks when the used to have crash boxes and were much harder to change gear than modern synchromesh boxes as this short film shows. It was also possible with care to change gears without using the clutch on them, but it took a lot of skill, and you had to listen to the engine note, something which I did with the older buses. While I was working on the buses, they introduced the semi automatics that needed a different style of driving as this film shows.

[Robert763]

All hybrids and electrics are classed as autos so eventually the basic test will be auto only with a special for manuals / commercials. I took my test long enough ago I can drive minibuses (>8 seats) and commercials up to 7.5T etc. That stopped a while ago.  A modern basic licence won't cover you to drive a S3 LWB Station Waggon (12 seats, you can drive one in the bus lanes in Cambridge ) or Ambulance bodied 101" FC (>3.5T).

[bd139]

Jan 1997 that stopped. Got in before that as well. 

[mansaxel]

Err, no, I can't see any such link in your post at all 

The picture of the tgb11 is a link. Eeeevil, right? 

[mnementh]

Why not is only a slightly crusty Anchor        
Seems I added one to my lot eBay auction: #133645371427 I hold no real hopes for it. Worst case is is an expensive Fluke Box Might be some hope it is some Black wire cancer under the hood.

Feeling quite 9th Law today, ehhh, bean? 

If we don't hear from you in 2 days, I'll send the Rescue 'roos after ya.

mnem
Creamed-spinach screens make me go

[mansaxel]

Oh great another eBay fucknugget.

So buys a motherboard off me for £10 off the price, I ship it UPS 24 which is better then the specified 2 days dispatch followed by “packlink generic 2-3 days”. UPS has taken one extra day so far and he’s opened a case against me because he couldn’t build a PC with his son this weekend. Boo fucking hoo. You’re getting a second hand motherboard via economy delivery which I upgraded FOC from a private seller and are complaining. Cunt.

fleabay need to add a filter so you can exclude entitled millennials from buying your stuff.

If you have children you can have such interaction with ("because he couldn’t build a PC with his son this weekend") you're probably not millenial. What Ebay might need is a "stupid filter" but that would probably be bad for business. People not understanding things as they're seen by others are simply too common, ageistic labels aside. The "me first, consider others never" modus operandi has existed for ages. And it's not going away.

[mansaxel]

Jan 1997 that stopped. Got in before that as well. 

Here, if you took "car" (called "B" in our system) you got motorcycle too. That stopped in the 80s. If you took "Bus" (called "D") you got Lorry (C), Heavier trailer on car (BE) and bus (DE). That ended in 1994. I took mine 1993, so I have *BEC*DE and the basic taxi level, which today is useless.

[tggzzz]

Who pissed in your cornflakes then 

Has your Cavalier even got ABS on it? Mine didn't. If any of the things on my car packed up, I'd still be able to drive and handle it, when I did my apprenticeship on the buses, it was company policy that anyone who would ever have to drive a bus for what ever reason, had to go through their driving school for training. When it was time, I had to go out for a day with a load of other trainees who were being trained to be full time PSV holding bus drivers. They all took a turn in the driver's seat of a double-decker while I sat and waited. We pulled into Braintree depot and had lunch, after which the instructor said it was my turn in the seat and I got to drive back from Braintree to Chelmsford depot in the snow. The instructor went straight to my mechanical superintendent and asked him what was the big idea of sending me over to the driving school, he said that he had never seen driving skills like it and that I from that point on cleared to drive  . When there was a broken down bus and the mechanics were already out in the breakdown truck, I'd get sent out with a replacement bus so that the driver could transfer his passengers to it and continue the journey. I'd have to effect whatever repairs were needed to get the broken bus driveable and limp it back to the depot. I never failed to get back unaided.

The Vauxhall Cavalier I owned in the late '80s indeed predated ABS.

And you are only proving my point; you were taught how to drive without all the modern crap, as was I. Consequently we do know how to react when things go wrong. Modern drivers, for the most part do not, and frequently only find out that fact at speeds we would have struggled to reach in similar conditions, in the vehicles of the day.

Ditto. And you would be surprised how many Americans, even folks my age, have absolutely no clue how to drive a manual gearbox. Present a typical driver with a vehicle with 3 pedals and it's total panic. Automatic transmissions really started to take over in the 1960's and many folks never had to drive a stick and never learned.

My father was "old fashioned" and all his vehicles were manual gearbox. So it was either learn how to drive it or walk. I learned and initially I hated it and wanted a car with an automatic but found out in due time that automatics were unreliable and not much fun to drive.

So...fast forward to today. There's only a select few cars in the American market that offer a manual transmission. The Civic still does. And if I happen to have someone in the passenger seat who never learned they are fascinated watching me row the gears but also remark that they want nothing to do with it. Can't drink coffee and eat a donut if you have to change gears. 

And....no one EVER asks to borrow your car. 

Now try it wit a gearbox that doesn't have synchromesh. They were called "crashboxes" for a reason.

Knowing how to double declutch can, very occasionally, be useful.

[tggzzz]

Jan 1997 that stopped. Got in before that as well. 

Here, if you took "car" (called "B" in our system) you got motorcycle too. That stopped in the 80s. If you took "Bus" (called "D") you got Lorry (C), Heavier trailer on car (BE) and bus (DE). That ended in 1994. I took mine 1993, so I have *BEC*DE and the basic taxi level, which today is useless.

I got my manual licence in 75, so I automatically got an automatic licence and, ISTR, a motorcycle licence. Can't be bothered to go and look at it to check

I've also driven a double-decker bus, without a licence. So did my 16yo daughter; she didn't realise how powerful airbrakes are, and her "instructor" almost went through the windscreen