Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[djos]

Nice desk area, welcome to the afflicted, you'll fit in here perfectly, although you still have plenty of space to fill 

I'm having to add shelving already and I've barely gotten going!  I'm saving for a Scope atm (yeah I'm married, so poor by default ) and I think it a shelf below my soldering station should work nicely.

[djos]

Nice and easy to repair too. Some of the Chinese power supplies albeit cheap are made from jellybean parts and perform pretty well.

Some of them can have horrendous spikes on switch on which because they have no load switch, can damage delicate circuits / experiments I'm told. Seeing as I don't do that kind of thing, it doesn't bother me at all.

I plugged my Brymen 235 in and powered it up and thankfully there were no nasty spikes that it could detect. 

[Specmaster]

I really doubt the Brymen would detect it, it happens so quickly that a decent oscilloscope would be able to show it, one with storage to capture it and then zooming capability to be able zoom and really see the magnitude of if. Unless you work with very fragile circuits then I would not worry about. I have a switch mode and a linear power supply and have yet to experience any problems with either of them. I use them to power radios etc that I'm working on. 

[Fungus]

I'm having to add shelving already and I've barely gotten going!  I'm saving for a Scope atm (yeah I'm married, so poor by default ) and I think it a shelf below my soldering station should work nicely.

All those spanners and rulers will fit in a small toolbox. No need to waste wall space on them. 

[Mr. Scram]

All those spanners will fit in a small toolbox. No need to waste wall space on them.

What spanners?

[bd139]

Nice and easy to repair too. Some of the Chinese power supplies albeit cheap are made from jellybean parts and perform pretty well.

I don't quite like putting Chinese no-name stuff on mains. Some will be decently designed and built, but some will inevitably be dangerous junk.

It's part of the excitement finding out!

[djos]

All those spanners will fit in a small toolbox. No need to waste wall space on them.

I think there's maybe 3 spammers on the wall... But yeah half that stuff can be relegated if need be. 

[Specmaster]

I think there's maybe 3 spammers on the wall... But yeah half that stuff can be relegated if need be. 

Haha, I like the idea of those "Spammers"  being hung on the wall, then we can all throw eggs etc at them for filling up our inboxes 

[Fungus]

All those spanners...

What spanners?

I didn't want to get into an argument over what adjustable spanners are called in various countries of the world so I just said "spanners". Maybe I should have said "spanners and stuff".

[neo]

With the space, or lack there of, for "work shops" or "work benches" i have an area the size of a broom closet and yet i still managed to fit my long list of test equipment, an audio system and two laptops. Space is an illusion to those truly motivated.

My Fairchild 7050 is back in operation, originally it was just an intermittent open circuit cord however in my poking around inside the HV capacitor literally snapped off and almost turned to dust.

My Fluke 8200A also seems to be back in operation and mostly functional after a little contact cleaner to the switches.

[djos]

I think there's maybe 3 spammers on the wall... But yeah half that stuff can be relegated if need be. 

Haha, I like the idea of those "Spammers"  being hung on the wall, then we can all throw eggs etc at them for filling up our inboxes 

Lol, I need to check my text before hitting send. Dam auto spell! 

[xrunner]

All those spanners and rulers will fit in a small toolbox.

When I had a drafting class in Jr. High my teacher said a ruler was the head of a country and a scale is what you measure with - don't call a scale a "ruler"! 

[Cerebus]

I didn't want to get into an argument over what adjustable spanners are called in various countries of the world so I just said "spanners". Maybe I should have said "spanners and stuff".

Thanks to AvE, we now all know that the proper, universal, name for an adjustable spanner is a "thumb detecting nut ****er".

[Mr. Scram]

I didn't want to get into an argument over what adjustable spanners are called in various countries of the world so I just said "spanners". Maybe I should have said "spanners and stuff".

I'm not trying to start an argument either, it's just that I took a couple of long hard looks, could really only discover one spanner and started questioning my sanity.

[Fungus]

I didn't want to get into an argument over what adjustable spanners are called in various countries of the world so I just said "spanners". Maybe I should have said "spanners and stuff".

I'm not trying to start an argument either, it's just that I took a couple of long hard looks, could really only discover one spanner and started questioning my sanity.

I've been in that thread too many times. It's best not to go there.   

(even what you call a "spanner" will be be called a "wrench" by somebody)

[AF6LJ]

Bought an adjustable wrench this last weekend, turns out I have to take it back because it is metric. 

[ElektroQuark]

Bought an adjustable wrench this last weekend, turns out I have to take it back because it is metric. 

Is it not working?

Here both metric and imperial wrenches works as expected. 

[Fungus]

Bought an adjustable wrench this last weekend, turns out I have to take it back because it is metric. 

Here both metric and imperial wrenches works as expected. 

You jest but some of them do have scales on them.


Me? I've been looking for an adjustable wench since my student days.

[ElektroQuark]

Sorry Fungus, I was kidding.

[Fungus]

Sorry Fungus, I was kidding.

Yes, I know, but those "wrenches" do actually come in metric/imperial sizes.   

[Specmaster]

Combi wrenches by any chance? 

[SeanB]

I have them in a few sizes. Small, medium, larger and "One size fits all', which handles almost every bolt and nut I have ever worked with, though fitting the head into some areas will not work as it is larger than the object being worked on.

[tautech]

Who of you have the double ended Crescent adjustable wrench ?
I've only ever seen two, an 8" with a 6" head on the other end and a 6" with a 4" head on the other end.

My son inherited the 6" model from his grandpa.

Never found a job where you can use both ends at the same time. 

[bd139]

Had to cancel my new toy collection. Eldest managed to break a toe this afternoon playing netball so currently sitting in a hospital looking at things to buy on ebay instead

[Specmaster]

Oh dear, well just don't go bidding on anything I'm after this time OK?