Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[tautech]

How ya going with that glowing Tek Med ? 

[med6753]

How ya going with that glowing Tek Med ? 

Funny you should ask. Since Tuesday I've been sick with a nasty cold that settled in my chest resulting in lots of coughing. No fever, just a cough and stuffy head. Been taking appropriate medication and it's helping but still not 100%. This is the first time in over 10 years that I've had anything resembling a cold or flu. It sucks and I want to get over it. The lady cop was supposed to come up today for the weekend but I'm cancelling that.

So I haven't been working on the 535A. I need to get it up on the kitchen counter so I can flip it on it's side and remove the bottom plate and clean it. But with all this coughing my belly muscles are sore so that's all I need to do is try to lift 65 pounds of dead weight. Once the bottom is cleaned I'll attempt the first power up.

Maybe today, but I doubt it. Perhaps tomorrow. 

[BU508A]

Funny you should ask. Since Tuesday I've been sick with a nasty cold that settled in my chest resulting in lots of coughing. No fever, just a cough and stuffy head. Been taking appropriate medication and it's helping but still not 100%. This is the first time in over 10 years that I've had anything resembling a cold or flu. It sucks and I want to get over it. The lady cop was supposed to come up today for the weekend but I'm cancelling that.

So I haven't been working on the 535A. I need to get it up on the kitchen counter so I can flip it on it's side and remove the bottom plate and clean it. But with all this coughing my belly muscles are sore so that's all I need to do is try to lift 65 pounds of dead weight. Once the bottom is cleaned I'll attempt the first power up.

Maybe today, but I doubt it. Perhaps tomorrow. 

Take care and get well soon.

[Martin.M]

535A is a fine Classic Tek Restoration for beginners.
the next interesting one can be a stereo system, 556



the HP scopecart is better then the 205 bec. it can store 6 Plugins,
also it have a larger junk box

 

[med6753]

As it is I barely have enough room for the 535A. If I got a 556 I'd have to move. 

[Martin.M]

the 556 is the perfect place to store a 565, on Top of the 556

[Martin.M]

if you want watch the most cute scope ever ask madao for pictures from the Tek 567
it`s a sampling system with digital readout.

[tautech]

How ya going with that glowing Tek Med ? 

Funny you should ask. Since Tuesday I've been sick with a nasty cold that settled in my chest resulting in lots of coughing. No fever, just a cough and stuffy head. Been taking appropriate medication and it's helping but still not 100%. This is the first time in over 10 years that I've had anything resembling a cold or flu. It sucks and I want to get over it. The lady cop was supposed to come up today for the weekend but I'm cancelling that.

So I haven't been working on the 535A. I need to get it up on the kitchen counter so I can flip it on it's side and remove the bottom plate and clean it. But with all this coughing my belly muscles are sore so that's all I need to do is try to lift 65 pounds of dead weight. Once the bottom is cleaned I'll attempt the first power up.

Maybe today, but I doubt it. Perhaps tomorrow. 

Oh dear, sorry to hear that.
Does the appropriate medication come in a 40oz bottle ? If not maybe you've been taking the wrong stuff !
You know, for medicinal purposes only, right. 

Probably you just need my wifes motivational remedy....she starts polishing a bullet ! 
Luckily the guns are all in MY cabinet ! 

Anyways it's best the glowing Tek waits until you're back on your game. 

[nixiefreqq]

if you want watch the most cute scope ever ask madao for pictures from the Tek 567
it`s a sampling system with digital readout.

all hp here......not a single piece of tek.


BUT DAMN......that sure is temptation on a stick.


(you are an evil evil person.  will now be glued to ebay for a while.)

[VK5RC]

'Tek for scopes, HP for everything else'. 😁

[bd139]

After fighting that 1740A recently, you are right

[kj7e]

If someone is wants an HP 53310A Modulation Domain Analyzer, here is a deal;
https://www.ebay.com/itm/C164946-HP-53310A-Modulation-Domain-Analyzer-w-Opt-001-Exp-Mem-030-Channel-C/293402608912

[bd139]

 Right off on holiday here for a day walking in Cotswolds. Overnight illegal camping tonight which will be fun  . May return with a Tek 453 if all goes well!

[mnementh]

WHAT THE  FUCK are you wing-dingles all talking about...? It sounds like some narcotic snuff or essential-oil-infused personal lubricant, or maybe a particularly noxious venereal disease of some sort...

mnem
smeg.

Skegness is a traditional seaside holiday town, that hasn't adapted to cheap flights to Spain. Think of a US town pop. 20k, in the middle of a prarie, surrounded by trailer parks, only occupied in summer and by the lomg term unemployed. Coney island writ small. Google streetview shows it in all its glory. It is bracing (the best that can be said about it) because easterly winds come straight fom Moscow.

The first poster was one of many produced by train companies, and fondly remembered. https://railwayposters.co.uk/

Thank you! I was really beginning to think it was some Brit counterculture pop reference that we 'merkins just "dinnae git the memo", or some rhyming slang or summat... 

mnem

[mnementh]

How ya going with that glowing Tek Med ? 

Funny you should ask. Since Tuesday I've been sick with a nasty cold that settled in my chest resulting in lots of coughing. No fever, just a cough and stuffy head. Been taking appropriate medication and it's helping but still not 100%. This is the first time in over 10 years that I've had anything resembling a cold or flu. It sucks and I want to get over it. The lady cop was supposed to come up today for the weekend but I'm cancelling that.

So I haven't been working on the 535A. I need to get it up on the kitchen counter so I can flip it on it's side and remove the bottom plate and clean it. But with all this coughing my belly muscles are sore so that's all I need to do is try to lift 65 pounds of dead weight. Once the bottom is cleaned I'll attempt the first power up.

Maybe today, but I doubt it. Perhaps tomorrow. 

Oh, hope you're feeling better soon old friend. You're gonna laugh, but how I know I'm on the mend is... I get this uncontrollable urge to do some finicky, fiddly anal cleaning-type work of JUST that sort. 

mnem
Last time I got sick I cleaned the fucking vacuum cleaner... 

[mnementh]

   535A is a fine Classic Tek Restoration for beginners.  the next interesting one can be a stereo system, 556  the HP scopecart is better then the 205 bec. it can store 6 Plugins, also it have a larger junk box

 

And all you need is two men and a boy to haul it out of the toolshed when you wanna use it! 

mnem
Okay, in a pinch you can substitute two girls for the boy, as long as they're small...

[mnementh]

if you want watch the most cute scope ever ask madao for pictures from the Tek 567    it`s a sampling system with digital readout.

all hp here......not a single piece of tek. BUT DAMN......that sure is temptation on a stick. (you are an evil evil person.  will now be glued to ebay for a while.)

   http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/567

Dayumm... That thing is a steampunk wet dream.    Nixies, CRT, vernier and decade controls, plus hollow-state analog computing all in the same MEBB. *wibble*

mnem

[AVGresponding]

Happy New Year (to all those using the Gregorian calendar)!

Yay, my 4x BNC test leads for the LCR meter arrived, time to play   

Warning: pic heavy post   

10 ohm 10% 5W ww resistor, with the Fluke 8840 using 4-wire for comparison (the Fluke hadn't warmed up and still has a 10 milliohm offset):



30M 7.5 kV 20% resistor out of an old tv, all my other meters that can read this high broadly agree:


This is the 6800uF cap I pulled out of the 8840, guessing these readings indicate eroded dielectric?



A 91 puff NPO:



2200 puff 5%:


And finally, since I can't find any known value inductors     a Minimus 11 speaker:

[Kosmic]

Happy New Year (to all those using the Gregorian calendar)!

Yay, my 4x BNC test leads for the LCR meter arrived, time to play   

Warning: pic heavy post   

10 ohm 10% 5W ww resistor, with the Fluke 8840 using 4-wire for comparison (the Fluke hadn't warmed up and still has a 10 milliohm offset):

Nice LCR meter 

[AVGresponding]

Thanks!

It's way more capable than I'll likely ever need, I didn't check the specs/dimensions when I was bidding   

[bd139]

Damn it. The tek 453 got away 

[Cerebus]

Probably you just need my wifes motivational remedy....she starts polishing a bullet ! 

You don't need to worry until she starts engraving names on the cases.

[mnementh]

Moin pr'fers a more 'ands-on approach...

mnem
I was going to put a pic of a clobbered dragon down here, but Googs was being a total bitch.

[Specmaster]

Damn it. The tek 453 got away 

I think that the 1740A was seen whispering in its ear just moments before you arrived 

In other news, my Rapid delivery arrived and now my 320 has it's smile back again, no wonder their delivery charge was so dammed high, they put those knob caps into a jiffy bag that 26 x 24cms, could have got the Titanic in there as well 

[bd139]

At least they didn’t put it in a box like CPC would. And then forget to put the parts in it. CPC are best at shipping air 

Right. Offline entirely from the human race until tomorrow at around 12:00. Unless you’re on GB3CG repeater