Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[med6753]

Edit: @med that looks really good. It would scare me having an unenclosed CRT with vacuum on display though. Buggers go with quite some force if you break 'em!

Definitely a concern. Since it's just me here I'll risk it. If there were others in the house then yea, I'd have to enclose it in plexiglass. Problem is I don't have the right tools to properly cut it and it would look like crap. I'd have to get a glass place to do it which would be big bucks.

The alternative is to deactivate the CRT's by snapping the exhaust tips which would let in air slowly. I really don't want to do that. First, the 3 inch CRT is still good. It was just in the wrong application. Second, the getters on all 3 would turn from shiny silver to dull gray and start flaking off and it would look terrible.

[tggzzz]

Edit: @med that looks really good. It would scare me having an unenclosed CRT with vacuum on display though. Buggers go with quite some force if you break 'em!

With mine I broke the nipple in the end, then a friend chopped it as in https://entertaininghacks.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/rescuing-a-broken-tektronix-465-crt/



Now I've got a better camera, I ought to update the pictures.

[bd139]

The alternative is to deactivate the CRT's by snapping the exhaust tips which would let in air slowly. I really don't want to do that. First, the 3 inch CRT is still good. It was just in the wrong application. Second, the getters on all 3 would turn from shiny silver to dull gray and start flaking off and it would look terrible.

Yeah also the phosphor goes horrible super quick.

[Mr. Scram]

Easier and safer be blowed! A thermal camera offers far more opportunity for the indulgence of TEA 

I thought that goes without saying. Do you need one? Probably not. Is it a good excuse to purchase one? Of course? How else would you find that short?

[Mr. Scram]

@med, very nice but I agree with bd139, those buggers can release shards of glass in all directions should an accident occur that I would be looking to provide some sort of cover for it just in case the unthinkable should happen. Personally as nice as it looks, if it were mine, it'd be at the bottom of dustbin with a brick dropped on it for safety, but each to their own, just hope nothing goes wrong when you're in close quarters to it.

You have no trouble dowsing your workbench and live board with flammable liquids but worry about some glass being strewn about?

[Specmaster]

What also holds my fascination with pipe organs, besides the lovely rich sounds and really deep bass that you can actually feel in the pit of your stomach, is the engineering that goes into each one, and no two are alike, they all vary but this one in the link here is possibly the most unusual I have come across in the way that the key board controls the sound. Take a look and see for your self the level of engineering and attention to detail that has gone it, bloody amazing.

[med6753]

Here's the display in the far corner of the bedroom away from any activity. I'll just have to inform Jo Ann (Lady Copper) not to mess with it when she visits.

[ArthurDent]

When I'm fiddling around with electronics (with the tongue at the right angle), my prefered music in the background is (in no particular order)
- Pink Floyd
- The Alan Parsons Project (from "Tales of mystery and imagination" up to "Vulture Culture")
- Kraftwerk
- Jean Michel Jarre (occasionly)
- Barclay James Harvest (preferred "Eyes of the universe")
- Jeff Wayne's "War of the worlds"
- Ganymed "Future wolrds"
- to be continued ...

For background music I prefer something soothing like this:

[med6753]

I can listen to metal....but not as background music. 

[worsthorse]

I imagine that like time and volt nuttery, weather observation obsessions are common in this august group. I have been, for years, tracking lightning strikes (having high-in-the-open-wires connected to electronics in the house makes one interested in such information) at blitzortung.org.  Plus it is kind of soothing, in a nerdy way, to watch lightning storms develop in real time.

After a two year wait, I got one of their "system blue" lightning reporting systems, which I will put together next week:



You all want to see the build/test/install for this project or should I put it on one of the other forums? Is so, which one?

[Specmaster]

I imagine that like time and volt nuttery, weather observation obsessions are common in this august group. I have been, for years, tracking lightning strikes (having high-in-the-open-wires connected to electronics in the house makes one interested in such information) at blitzortung.org.  Plus it is kind of soothing, in a nerdy way, to watch lightning storms develop in real time.

After a two year wait, I got one of their "system blue" lightning reporting systems, which I will put together next week:



You all want to see the build/test/install for this project or should I put it on one of the other forums? Is so, which one?

You are so right, I often watch that myself, especially if there is a storm happening near me, I like to see where the strikes have taken place against the Satellite maps and see just how close they are to my house.

[med6753]

You all want to see the build/test/install for this project or should I put it on one of the other forums? Is so, which one?

Do it here. I also like to track/watch weather although I do detest thunder storms.

[Specmaster]

You all want to see the build/test/install for this project or should I put it on one of the other forums? Is so, which one?

Do it here. I also like to track/watch weather although I do detest thunder storms.

I don't particularly like them either because they have such destructive powers like the whirlwinds and typhoons you get over in the states, you just never know where and when they will strike with their deadly power. 

[mnementh]

How to enrage a Bean.... just mention this:  "Blend 43"


.... Then run like hell.

When people go and stay there their taste buds are beyond salvation, only pity applies.  Drinkers of $tarchucks do at least have some hope of redemption 

I grew up on the GP's farm; gramma made Chock full o' Nuts ranch-style or in an old Pyrex percolator. My mother took that recipe with us, only substituting condensed milk for the real fresh-from-the-cow cream she used.

I developed a taste for it iced with a chunk of Abuelita or a packet of cocoa mix dissolved in it as a teen. Aside from the quality of the brew being several notches below hers, their bottled Mocha Frappucino reminds me very much of that over-sweetened concoction. As long as you don't expect it to taste like coffee, it isn't a half-bad caffeine/sugar fix. And since you can get it at almost any convenience or grocery store, you don't have to buy into the "6bucks coffee" hype-ecology. 

I play the bagpipes - people either really love them or really hate them. But so loud, you have to practice with ear plugs otherwise your ears ring.

Maybe it would stop screaming so loud if you weren't squeezing it to death... 

      It's done.     I've been thinking of plans for building up a display for the 465 and 7904 CRT's. Obviously that's going to be much more complex.

Nice. 90% of the way to a CRT clock, too.   

mnem
*waiting for med to take a hike down to Houston just so he can put the boots to me* 

[mindcrime]

UUgh. Remind me to never buy a home coffee roaster.  I'll just keep buying my beans pre-roasted and pre-ground. Better yet, I'll just swing by Starbucks and buy coffee pre-made, and ready to drink! 

Heathen  Charbucks isn't coffee and preground isn't fresh. 

Meh... if  it's brown, hot, tastes vaguely like coffee, and has the elixir of the Gods (aka caffeine) in it, then it's "coffee" in my book. 

[tautech]

Problem is I don't have the right tools to properly cut it and it would look like crap.

Yeah you do !
Done a Lexan windshield with just a layer of protective tape so not to scratch it and a jigsaw with a new, sharp wood blade on medium speed then tidy up with a block plane and fine sandpaper for the bits where the plane isn't right then propane flame burnish the edge for a perfect finish.

[Neomys Sapiens]

I quite like the sound of a full pipe band, I'm also quite partial to some pan pipes as well.

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How's this work out for you:



 

No, I don't consider it a suitable replacement for THIS:

[bd139]

I want one 

Plus when you're bored of it; bacon sandwiches.

[mnementh]

www.dresdencodak.com


mnem
*impairing productivity since nineteen mumblety-mumble*

[0culus]

I had a good property auction score...Tek 7104 and plugins for $100  It has a nice sharp trace on the mcp crt. May need a bit of work...but for that price can't go wrong.

[VK5RC]

Life is too short for bad coffee (or women)!

[mindcrime]

Life is too short for bad coffee (or women)!

Meh... coffee is like sex, or pizza... "even when it's bad, it's good".   

[bd139]

Life is too short for bad coffee (or women)!

Meh... coffee is like sex, or pizza... "even when it's bad, it's good".   

Hmm. Try a pizza from camden market. That will crush your soul. And your immune system.

Anyway I digress. Going to take an amble to the science museum in London next week, lazily driving in, followed by bad pizza, bad coffee and no sex. Will look out for things of interest to TEA participants.

01:15 here. Going to drown all the day’s sorrows in some Nick Cave (song: Oh My Lord) and pass out and dream of my capacitors arriving tomorrow which I will inevitably put in backwards again.

[med6753]

I had a good property auction score...Tek 7104 and plugins for $100  It has a nice sharp trace on the mcp crt. May need a bit of work...but for that price can't go wrong.

Well? I'm waiting. Stamping foot. 

[med6753]

Life is too short for bad coffee (or women)!

Meh... coffee is like sex, or pizza... "even when it's bad, it's good".   

Bullshit...nothing but the best for this dude.