Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Martin.M]

of coarse at first sucking the dust, all over !

There was a defect illum pot, replacement by another..
Then, close the cover, done. dust sucker TEST...

[mnementh]

Dat been MacGyver-fied! 

Well done... earns the Ugly Engineering seal of approval!

mnem

[Martin.M]

best engineering of scopes I have ever seen is british: The Cossor 1039M 

https://www.thevalvepage.com/testeq/cossor/1039m/1039m.htm

[bd139]

I did my work experience with Cossor. They had some of their stuff on display. They made some really nice kit back in the day.

[Martin.M]

@ tautech

[tautech]

@ tautech

Oh, so they will play together after all. 

[med6753]

My bench project is at last complete. The lamp I ordered from Banggood on December 22 finally arrived today. It was scheduled to arrive on January 2nd but obviously that didn't happen and I was beginning to wonder if it would ever show up. I even paid for expedited shipping but there was no tracking.

It's the same good construction as my other two lamps. I checked it for safety and it's fine. Just one problem. It's HALF the height of my other lamps. It's a miniature version! D'OH!  Somehow I missed that. My first thought was shit....this won't work but I installed it anyway. Turns out it's fine and provides light where I need it. So I'm happy with my new midget lamp.   

   

[med6753]

@ tautech

Oh, so they will play together after all. 

Would be excellent companions to my mini lamp. 

[med6753]

best engineering of scopes I have ever seen is british: The Cossor 1039M 

https://www.thevalvepage.com/testeq/cossor/1039m/1039m.htm

Yea, what happen to British engineering? Pre- WW2 between you guys and the Germans you had leading technology.  With some exceptions most of our stuff here was still stone age. And you were more than willing to share that technology with us. Two examples I can think of are the Whittle jet engine and the magnetron. Post WW2 it seemed to go into the toilet. What happen? 

[beanflying]

That workspace is far to neat @Med 

My ADF4350 based RF Sig Gen rocked up today, I will have a look around for a thread to maybe add a teardown and testing there instead of lose it here. Wonder how much of a discount a cracked fascia is worth    the '600mA' plug pack is already in thew circular storage device and was only floating 15Vac above ground but still

[med6753]

That workspace is far to neat @Med 

I cleaned it up for the glamour photo shoot. 

[Inverted18650]

what´s about dust sucker restoration?   

PLEASE do it! thats vintage and everyone over 40 has seen one...someone may even pick it up for their newly pimped out RV.

[Inverted18650]

Does anyone else just sit and read the threads and laugh their asses off when these guys go at it for three or four pages? I love it! I have no idea if they even know each other but they go back and forth like college roommates or old army buddies. What a great (and expensive) community to be a part of, even though I don't get to talk much here, I need my daily dose.

[mnementh]

   @ tautech

SQWEEEEEE!!!

A two-Sqweee! day! Can't ask for more than that!  

mnem
So-o-o-o cute... now I have a craving for cupcakes and chocolate milk! 

[neo]

@M&M sent you the model.

Keeping this tea related. My 8660C let me use the knob when i got it, now it won't allow the knob to alter the frequency 

[Specmaster]

Seeing that photo of the Cossor 1035 reminded me of my first scope and first real boat anchor, a Cossor 1049 https://www.thevalvepage.com/testeq/cossor/1049/1049.htm I purchased it from a little shop called Radio Service in New Street, Chelmsford sometime around 1966, it used to belong to Marconi, a factory just a few yards away from the shop and was a clear out when they switched over I believe to Tektronix scopes. I those days my bench was an old dining table in one corner of my bedroom.

I was a spotty teenager, doing an electrical engineering apprenticeship and dabbling in electronics in the evenings and weekends with a TMK500 meter, this Cossor 1049 and a very beat up but still working Advance signal generator (with a magic eye) and a Eagle signal generator and I was playing around with radio, TV and audio and I took out subscriptions to two magazines for the weekly service charts / manuals that they used to publish, one was called ERT (Electrical and Radio Trader) the other was called Wireless and Electrical Trader, but everyone called it Trader. I built up quite a collection of service manuals but then later I discovered girls, interest in electronics waned, 1049 suffered a burnt out mains transformer and the a replacement transformer would have to be custom made and was about 6 months wages back then so it went off to the dump along with the service manuals and signal generators went up in the loft and became rusty. 

[Specmaster]

   @ tautech

SQWEEEEEE!!!

A two-Sqweee! day! Can't ask for more than that!  

mnem
So-o-o-o cute... now I have a craving for cupcakes and chocolate milk! 

A match made in heaven, sweeeet.

[mnementh]

   what´s about dust sucker restoration?   

PLEASE do it! thats vintage and everyone over 40 has seen one...someone may even pick it up for their newly pimped out RV.

When I was like 15 I picked up an Electrolux "50th Jubilee" edition canister vac off a neighbor's curb; it looked exactly like that one only was metallic gold. One of the first with the "bag-minder" that would pop the front cover open when the bag got full. Took it apart and found the cord retract had a broken/burned up connector in the plug to the main switch. Scraped the lug clean and soldered/heat-shrink, and used that dirt sucker for 20 years... then gave it to a friend of the family who was starting up a "Merry Maids" cleaning business when we were moving. Long after I gave it away I found out it was only a year or two old when I got it, and was a $1200 bit of kit with the floor nozzle, power nozzle and upholstery scrubber I got it with. 

I wouldn't be surprised if she's still sucking dirt widdat thing...

mnem
SUCK THIS EXCLAMATION POINT!

[Brumby]

I'll have to go diving in my garage... I have a Siemens vacuum cleaner that comes in its own carry box.  It was my grandmother's and would have to be circa 1930's vintage.  The last time I looked, it seemed in pretty fair physical condition - but some of the wiring had rubber insulation that is hard and cracking.  That would need to be replaced - but I've always thought it would be a good restoration project.

Might see if I can find a couple of minutes this weekend to dig it out.

[bitseeker]

I received another of those brown box today 

Was described by the seller as "It powers on but there is a burning smell very quickly". That's probably why I got a good deal. Anyway, anybody got some spare triax cables ? 

Will soon be able to measure pico amps and Tera Ohms 

Welcome to the Triax club! And it's not the regular club either, with these brown boxes, but the even-more-of-a-headache two-lug club. Say goodbye to the wallet. The boxes are just accessories by comparison.

[Inverted18650]

I stuck a tentative deal for a lot that will make your mouths water...more details Sunday after I pick it up. T.E.A....

[bitseeker]

what´s about dust sucker restoration?   

Ah, very nice vintage vacuum tube gear. It's even got a bit of Tek blue-green to it.

[bitseeker]

@ tautech

Aww! How adorable! A mini frequency counter would play nice up there, too.

[bitseeker]

Does anyone else just sit and read the threads and laugh their asses off when these guys go at it for three or four pages? I love it! I have no idea if they even know each other but they go back and forth like college roommates or old army buddies. What a great (and expensive) community to be a part of, even though I don't get to talk much here, I need my daily dose.

LOL! Sometimes it's all I can do to keep up. Definitely fun in many ways.

I stuck a tentative deal for a lot that will make your mouths water...more details Sunday after I pick it up. T.E.A....

Don't get to talk much, eh? But you tease real good.

[Inverted18650]

Pm sent.