Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[tonyalbus]

Someone put a shoobox of electronics parts.
i offered 10,-     thats 17,- incl shipping and i received it today

[tonyalbus]

so many...yeah!!

[BU508A]

FWIW the 34401 escaped my budget allocation for disposable income.

Everybody feel free to give it a bid.

This was to be expected. I think, it will go above 450 Euros. Same goes for the Keithley 2000.
On both auctions there are nearly 100 persons watching.

[AVGresponding]

Someone put a shoobox of electronics parts.
i offered 10,-     thats 17,- incl shipping and i received it today

Nice slide switch sampler box.

Are those big pots multiturn?

[med6753]

This one's for you.   

https://www.qwertee.com/product/i-hate-people

Perfect! How did you know? 

[BU508A]

This one's for you.   

https://www.qwertee.com/product/i-hate-people

Perfect! How did you know? 

You've mentioned it occasionly.

[Cerebus]

Just spent the entire morning whinging about a misconfigured JIRA instance.

Is there any other kind? 

[mnementh]

Yeah. The 500 MHz subsystem in particular is pure black magic. After swapping the 500MHz boards (the one that came in mine definitely has bad sockets for the two tubes), I finally found the right combo of tubes and adjustments to finally get the 500MHz marker to come in. I had to tweak the geometry of L69 relative to L70 (the giant wishbone) to get it to finally work.  Now, as far as I can tell, all markers are working!

Now THAT's what I'm talking about! A (hu)man made it; a (hu)man can fix it.  (Even if there's voodoo involved )

SO = significant other.

Papa Smurf, should you not be sleeping ?

Day off. Coughing, presumably allergy or cold. The buyer for my Indiana Jones pinball cancelled about an hour before pickup.
Trying to fix a RockPi  that has lost its microsd slot when it fell off the table (slot torn off of board). Trying to find a replacement did not work, the Molex stuff does not fit.

4 options:

• buy the eMMC ramdisk and use spi flashing to enable booting off that critter, use PXE boot after rigging it
• jimmyrig a microSD card by attaching 0.05 mm wire to the traces and then try to boot and move the OS to an eMMC disk
• do the over the Top SATA M.2 thing (this gizmo has an M.2 slot). Don't know if it will boot though
• toss the critter (it's a 100€ board)

What would you think ?

I'd continue poking around my junk pile for a closer match to the existing missing μSD socket. Epoxy it to the board, run my little wires, go have some TEA. "Pretty is as pretty does." Nobody's gonna care about that bodge 10 years down the road, least of all YOU. 

I do find it hard to believe that if they bothered to put a m.2 slot in there it wouldn't boot from it tho...

mnem

[bd139]

Just spent the entire morning whinging about a misconfigured JIRA instance.

Is there any other kind? 

That's a depressingly good point 

This one marks the ticket as completed immediately when you create it ?!?!? 

[mnementh]

watching too much Blade Runner, are we ?

In answer to your query, they are written down for me.
It's a test designed to provoke an emotional response. Shall we continue ?
Now tell me in single words only the good things that come into your mind - about your mother ?
...

No such thing as too much. Don't forget to wash it down with a little Time Bandits, Silent Running and Dark Star; maybe a pinch Life of Brian or Meaning of Life for flavor.

mnem
Balance is the key.

[Cerebus]

Ditto "fettle", which everybody on this thread does too much for our own good.

Fettling is a formal term of art in the pottery industry. It refers to small adjustments for fit and finish made to greenware before it moves on to glazing. Hence there are/were people in the potteries who were Fettlers by trade. My ex-wife's grandfather was a "Sagger-maker's bottom knocker" when he worked in the Stoke-on-Trent potteries.

[mnementh]

Now for something completely different:      https://www.qwertee.com/product/trust-me-i-m-an-engeener

   https://cccp-shirts.com/product_info.php?products_id=485
 


mnem
I don't trust anyone who says "Trust me."

[mnementh]

Someone put a shoobox of electronics parts. i offered 10,- thats 17,- incl shipping and i received it today

mnem
 

[PA0PBZ]

Just spent the entire morning whinging about a misconfigured JIRA instance.

Is there any other kind? 

That's a depressingly good point 

This one marks the ticket as completed immediately when you create it ?!?!? 

If you find out how they do that please tell, I could use it!

[mnementh]

Now for something completely different:      https://www.qwertee.com/product/trust-me-i-m-an-engeener

I've never trusted fucking engineers. 

Erm, excuse me I'm an engineer 

There's no excuse for you... *bah-dump-bump... tssssst!*

mnem
 

[tggzzz]

Ditto "fettle", which everybody on this thread does too much for our own good.

Fettling is a formal term of art in the pottery industry. It refers to small adjustments for fit and finish made to greenware before it moves on to glazing. Hence there are/were people in the potteries who were Fettlers by trade. My ex-wife's grandfather was a "Sagger-maker's bottom knocker" when he worked in the Stoke-on-Trent potteries.

Many cities used to employ people to knock up their citizens. ISTR the last "knocker up" job, in Durham, finished in 1957.

[mnementh]

This one's for you.         https://www.qwertee.com/product/i-hate-people

Perfect! How did you know? 

You MIGHT have let it slip a time or three... 



mnem

[Neomys Sapiens]

FWIW the 34401 escaped my budget allocation for disposable income.

Everybody feel free to give it a bid.

So did you snag that X-ray tube? I was going to bid on it, but I lost it over a drawing.

[tggzzz]

watching too much Blade Runner, are we ?

In answer to your query, they are written down for me.
It's a test designed to provoke an emotional response. Shall we continue ?
Now tell me in single words only the good things that come into your mind - about your mother ?
...

No such thing as too much. Don't forget to wash it down with a little Time Bandits, Silent Running and Dark Star; maybe a pinch Life of Brian or Meaning of Life for flavor.

mnem
Balance is the key.

If you are going to mention "Dark Star" and "Silent Running", then don't forget that other little-appreciated low-budget film "Android" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(film)

[mnementh]

If you're going to mention Kinski films...



mnem

[bd139]

Don't forget Saturn 3 !

[Saskia]

FWIW the 34401 escaped my budget allocation for disposable income.

Everybody feel free to give it a bid.

So did you snag that X-ray tube? I was going to bid on it, but I lost it over a drawing.

sorry, no. I am looking at a 4.5 kw klystron ...

[tonyalbus]

Someone put a shoobox of electronics parts.
i offered 10,-     thats 17,- incl shipping and i received it today

Nice slide switch sampler box.

Are those big pots multiturn?

pots are 1K, one turn
have lots of new stuff too
BD136 and BTA16

no idea what are these blue things.. looks like diode, but no black stripe.

[Specmaster]

Put those blue things on a component tester and that might identify it for you.

[tggzzz]

Don't forget Saturn 3 !

... for the same reason Barbarella is unforgettable