Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Zucca]

Took me about 2 years - working 1-2 hrs 3-4x/week (while the kids were asleep). Hardest parts are planking the hull (each plank laid individually & boring) and the knot tying (so many

Is there space in the cargo hold? if yes retrofit some LiPo batteries, some sails/helm actuators and finally a remote control...

[ChrisLX200]

I don't know if it counts as woodworking, but ship modelling needs a lathe and a 3 inch long plane so I sort of think it does count.
Took me about 2 years - working 1-2 hrs 3-4x/week (while the kids were asleep). Hardest parts are planking the hull (each plank laid individually & boring) and the knot tying (so many knots and fiddly). Completed in about 2003. It is one of the few hobbies where drinking alcohol actually helps (reduces tremor)
Dimensions L~700mm, H~500mm, W~250mm, Wt ~1kg
Apologies for the photo - but it is in a glass case and hard to get out.

LOL - that looks like the Endevour. I started building that many years ago, maybe one day I'll get around to finishing it but I doubt it will ever look as good as yours!

[Mr. Scram]

I don't know if it counts as woodworking, but ship modelling needs a lathe and a 3 inch long plane so I sort of think it does count.
Took me about 2 years - working 1-2 hrs 3-4x/week (while the kids were asleep). Hardest parts are planking the hull (each plank laid individually & boring) and the knot tying (so many knots and fiddly). Completed in about 2003. It is one of the few hobbies where drinking alcohol actually helps (reduces tremor)
Dimensions L~700mm, H~500mm, W~250mm, Wt ~1kg
Apologies for the photo - but it is in a glass case and hard to get out.

That's some good ship!

[mnementh]

Holy ship that's some good plank!!! 

I don't think I'll ever be anywhere near that good... we have an honest to goodness luthier and miniature shipwrights among us!!!




This is probably the most involved woodworking I've ever done; you start with a pile of sticks and cut miniature plywood and plastic sheet and it eventually turns into this. I've sat in with some of the old plankers on the RC groups; listening to them talk of building from plans (and of building their own sets of plans); I just don't have THAT much patience.

Cheers,


mnem
Dammit, I ran out of sky before I ran out of mistakes!

[Cerebus]

I used to love making model planes when I was a kid. I could never get over the magic that happened when you covered a flimsy balsawood frame with tissue paper, slathered it in dope and somehow ended up with a relatively strong rigid waterproof thing that actually flew.

[rhb]

50+ years ago I got my first audio system, a well used reel to reel recorder.  I had two tapes, one with Bob Dylan albums and one with Leonard Cohen albums.  I would sit and listen to the songs and think about the details of the system from the tape and playback head to the speakers.  How they worked.  How they were made.  Everything I knew about the system.  I was enthralled. It was magic!

I said something about this to someone I attended classes with at university.  They responded, "What's the big deal? You turn it on and it makes music."  I was stunned.

The ignorant, for whom most things are magic, are blase.  The knowledgeable see the magic.  I still find it very strange.

I bought an HP 8356A today and am negotiating for an 8648C.  Brothers and sisters, will you pray for me?  I just need a few more pieces of test equipment, a noise figure meter and and a power meter.  I swear, that will be enough.  Can I have a witness?  Will you help me find salvation from my addiction? (I'm running out of room)

[Cerebus]

There's an art to retaining simple wonder while still being able to wonder at the workings of things.  So, sometimes it's good just to sit in awe of a sunset, other times it's good to be awed by the processes that make the sunset.

As to asking for prayers, you do realise that in the TEA version of a benediction you don't get splashed with holy water, but with the holy liquid nitrogen that's been blessed by contact with the Josephson Junction Array voltage reference apparatus? Be carefully what you ask for ... 

[Brumby]

I just need a few more pieces of test equipment ....  I swear, that will be enough.

Ah - the chorus!   Everybody join in!!

[med6753]

I bought an HP 8356A today and am negotiating for an 8648C.  Brothers and sisters, will you pray for me?  I just need a few more pieces of test equipment, a noise figure meter and and a power meter.  I swear, that will be enough.  Can I have a witness?  Will you help me find salvation from my addiction? (I'm running out of room)

Are you kidding? You want our help to convince you NOT to get more equipment? 

[tggzzz]

50+ years ago I got my first audio system, a well used reel to reel recorder.  I had two tapes, one with Bob Dylan albums and one with Leonard Cohen albums.  I would sit and listen to the songs and think about the details of the system from the tape and playback head to the speakers.  How they worked.  How they were made.  Everything I knew about the system.  I was enthralled. It was magic!

I said something about this to someone I attended classes with at university.  They responded, "What's the big deal? You turn it on and it makes music."  I was stunned.

The ignorant, for whom most things are magic, are blase.  The knowledgeable see the magic.  I still find it very strange.

'Twas always thus.

I have a book on how to make soap. My father had (has?) a book on how to make your own car; it starts by describing how to make the tools to make the car.

The best way I have of shocking people out of their complacency is to note that

• the people living in the depths of a rainforest know how to do everything they need to live and thrive in their environment
• most people in country X can't do simple things in their environment, e.g. change a fuse, find food, make some form of transportation

Now, tell me again - which is the ignorant savage?

Will you help me find salvation from my addiction? (I'm running out of room)

Yes, I'd be delighted to help. Send it all to me; despite having run out of rooms, I'll still help you out.

[VK5RC]

Thanks for the great comments re the model. ChrisLX200, you are over half way - keep going , just some spars, ratlines and other rigging. Modellers shipyard used to be the place but I think they are incorporated in Modellers central now.
I laughed about motorising it, you get so protective - they are so fragile , every 3-4 yrs I clean the inside of the glass (fogging) the family leave the house! HiHi

[nixiefreqq]

"I bought an HP 8356A today and am negotiating for an 8648C.  Brothers and sisters, will you pray for me?  I just need a few more pieces of test equipment, a noise figure meter and and a power meter.  I swear, that will be enough.  Can I have a witness?  Will you help me find salvation from my addiction? (I'm running out of room)"




easy there brother..........you are gonna' be ok.   a 20 lb 8648c is just youthful experimentation.  you are not hooked on the heavy stuff till you get your 2nd or 3rd 8660c.  you can consider yourself totally batshit lost if you start lusting for an ailtech 380.   the ups guy who dropped mine in the driveway cursed me before regaining his professional composure and asking what the hell was in the box!   (that actually happened.  next time will peek to make sure he is gone before opening the garage door)     

[xrunner]

Made this one for you guys ...

[bd139]

Hahahaha that happens with everything I buy.

Talking of which, what the hell has happened to eBay recently? There's bugger all on it!

[med6753]

She has not yet seen my new scope on a cart. I know as soon as she does I'm gonna get some smart ass remark. 

[nixiefreqq]

the eaton 380 is a real battleship at 90+ lbs. 

but in the spirit of full disclosure.......this little 6000mhz pocket sig gen gets a lot more use these days.

and my gonads are grateful.

[Specmaster]

Hahahaha that happens with everything I buy.

Talking of which, what the hell has happened to eBay recently? There's bugger all on it!

I know, Ebay has been quiet since Christmas, there a few items on it that I'm tracking however but so far they have been going for stupid money so I walk away at the end.

[neo]

If someone could be so kind as to explain this? Tek 2465B, starts up like normal until it just starts blipping it's lights.

[mtdoc]

If someone could be so kind as to explain this? Tek 2465B, starts up like normal until it just starts blipping it's lights.

Try running the self tests.  See here for the procedure. I think that should work for the 2465b as well as the a.

If that fails then I'd guess the next step is testing voltages, but others with more experience with this problem may have better input.

[tggzzz]

If someone could be so kind as to explain this? Tek 2465B, starts up like normal until it just starts blipping it's lights.

There are many other descriptions of this area of the 24x5 series, several on this forum. There is little point in poorly rehashing them in a thread about TEA.

If you want to start yet another thread on this subject, I suggest the repair subforum would get better responses for you.

[neo]

I looked for an answer for 20 minutes, then i asked. Guess i should of looked for forty minutes before asking, or better yet an hour. 

All i want is some clue, even being pointed to a specific place or being told what it is doing, that is to say something i could cross reference to existing knowledgeable posts (that i'm sure are there) would help. Blinking lights doesn't get me very far.

[Specmaster]

I think you did no harm at all in asking here, for all you knew there might well have been a fellow TEA suffer with some experience of this problem. If you don't ask, you don't get thats what I always say but I think that the same question needs to be asked in the Repair section as well, then you have covered the most likely places of enlightenment, good luck.

[tggzzz]

I looked for an answer for 20 minutes, then i asked. Guess i should of looked for forty minutes before asking, or better yet an hour. 

All i want is some clue, even being pointed to a specific place or being told what it is doing, that is to say something i could cross reference to existing knowledgeable posts (that i'm sure are there) would help. Blinking lights doesn't get me very far.

You haven't bothered to indicate what research you have done, nor why that hasn't answered your questions. That has the disadvantages noted at https://entertaininghacks.wordpress.com/library-2/good-questions-pique-our-interest-and-dont-waste-our-time-2/

And as I pointed out, there are better places to get a reply; only a small subset of readers still bother with this thread.

Don't forget that asking the same question in two places is, very sensibly, jumped on by the moderators.

[neo]

You haven't bothered to indicate what research you have done, nor why that hasn't answered your questions. That has the disadvantages noted at https://entertaininghacks.wordpress.com/library-2/good-questions-pique-our-interest-and-dont-waste-our-time-2/

And as I pointed out, there are better places to get a reply; only a small subset of readers still bother with this thread.

Don't forget that asking the same question in two places is, very sensibly, jumped on by the moderators.

I searched for;
Tektronix 2465 blinking front lights.
Tektronix 2465 startup errors.
Tektronix 2465 failure to start, and then i tried
Tektronix 2465 blinking front lights, about 3 more times before i gave in and asked the admittedly limited reader base who i consider friends in some fashion or another. Mostly because i don't even really know what i'm searching for.

[rhb]

I have done numerous searches and not found what I was looking for, just  pages of irrelevant stuff.  Ive tried to find the same link a few days later and either not found it, or found it buried many pages down.  I have searched eevblog.com using google for specific strings and not found anything, only to have someone post a link with *exactly* that string in the subject line.