Some more lab tidying at 1AM and I will be done for today...
This morning along with the rolling chair, I also happened to receive the plastic " comb " thing used for routing wires in electrical cabinets... whatever it's called. " Goulotte de câblage " here...
Anyway, it's 2 meter long. Cut a 50cm piece and screwed it in place. Populated it with my new coax cables and all my 4mm leads. With some sort of order so I can find what I want quicker, and put it back in its proper place more easily as well. First the shorter coax cables, 50cm, then 100cm then 150cm ones. The 4mm leads sorted by colour and length. Long red then long black then short red then short black... looks like I have only one of the latter ?!
I guess I will find a few more over the coming weeks, as I keep digging deeper and deeper into my storage boxes. Can't believe I have only one... that's highly suspicious ! ![Grin ;D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xgrin.gif.pagespeed.ic.QVVz6XIT20.png)
That takes about half the comb's length. So with the other half I have space to put some more test leads. DMM leads, and I have a couple with a BNC on one end and god knows what at the other end, can't remember. Crocodile clips maybe.
The bench top runs all around the comb, so it's a back bending chore to stick the leads in place, not to mention the big parallax problems when trying to line up the top and bottom part of the comb... That's why I put the most used ones, ie coax and long 4mm leads, closed to me.
Think I might cut the lower half of the comb off. Not needed and just makes my life more difficult.
Of course that's not sustainable, it's only a first step... later I think I might mount the comb onto a long drawer runner so I can just grab the tip of the comb, drag it out over the bench top so that it's easily accessible, grab what I need on there, then push it back into place, out of the way. Much needed and shouldn't be too hard to DIY, so I think that will get done pretty soon.
That's it for today....
Whoa, now you woke my sense of pity (not known to stir in it's catatonic slumber normally).
Do you really have no other test leads than red and black?
No blue, green, yellow, white, brown and violet ones? And no 2mm at all?
Ok, send my a PM with your adress. I can at least send you a handful of SMA cables and I will look what else turns up from the reserves.
That bad ?!
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I was so proud of showing off my beautiful long red and black leads.... generously donated recently by a fellow TEA member ! Were it not for him, the situation would be a lot worse...
Fancy coloured 4mm leads ?! Wow now you are talking luxury !
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No none of that here for sure.... except for 2mm leads, I DO have some of those !
Never get to use them, but I have some. Nice quality silicon wires with gold plated plugs. Mostly tiny / short ones though, 20cm and up.
I have them because they are part of a brief case that my dad gave me 30 years ago when he left work and retired. He used these brief cases to teach his students / trainees digital logic. In the pouch inside the case, there are lots of TTL chips and all those cables. You could plug the chips in the sockets and wire everything up using those tiny cables.
I even have some plugs left so I can make new cables if I need to... assuming I can get my hands on 2mm silicon cable... I thought I had some left somewhere but can't find it right now. Maybe I will find it once I am done unpacking all my stuff / boxes.
While digging out these 2mm cables, I came across more 4mm cables as you can see ! Half a dozen of them.. but tiny ones, 30cm at first glance, so not very useful in practice.