Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[psykok]

Sure I will, just need to find time to do it.

[mansaxel]

Fluke 25 battle axe...

Axe? Brick, hammer, projectile...

I like them

Yes, I should get something for the car. 25 or 27FM should be it. And perhaps decide which of my meters goes in the carry-away tool kit; the Fluke 10 is a bit limited. Definitely tempted to put the 974A there. It is habit-forming.

[bd139]

I keep my HV tortured BM22s in the car. If I put a larger meter in there it might wreck the mpg on my car 

[Specmaster]

Ok back to more normal programming, here is today's odd eBay item, I mean  , what kind of weed are these guys smoking, I mean this guy clearly knows his stuff.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224118744807?

[Specmaster]

Another item for the collection.  Fluke 25 battle axe with slightly iffy ohms range for £20. Volts work.  Probably leakage somewhere that needs cleaning or something stupider. Figured it was worth a punt at that price as the rest of it is fairly tidy.

Edit: also has anyone in the UK got any ebay deals sent out this week? Need to sell some shit 

Great little meters, really rugged and hold their specs well but are so easy to re-calibrate anyway using the trimming pots. 

[AVGresponding]

Ok back to more normal programming, here is today's odd eBay item, I mean  , what kind of weed are these guys smoking, I mean this guy clearly knows his stuff.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224118744807?

idk but put some in a pipe for me!   

Look at his other items, some genuine shite there!   


I just won this for £31 shipped:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Spiralux-Fretsaw-1010-/293687280331

[FransW]

Saskia & Specmaster

It is not the location.
It is a gift.

[tggzzz]

Fluke 25 battle axe...

Axe? Brick, hammer, projectile...

I like them

Yes, I should get something for the car. 25 or 27FM should be it. And perhaps decide which of my meters goes in the carry-away tool kit; the Fluke 10 is a bit limited. Definitely tempted to put the 974A there. It is habit-forming.

If I was to get a meter to be kept in the car for use on the car, my checklist would be:

• can distinguish between 11V and 12V, and whether a bulb is open circuit, resistive, or a short circuit
• small, so it doesn't take up too much room in a glove compartment or shelf
• no battery, so it will still work when I need it in 2 years time

[bd139]

To be honest the only meter I’ve had to use in my car in ten years is a continuity tester and a clamp meter.

Just spent an hour turning that 1707b into its component parts. It hurts slightly but it was way way way beyond repair. Thus it will serve a new life as a parts library. Must have pulled about 25m of wire out of it as well which is good. Oh and a whole load of pots and knobs and RF transistors.

Edit: got my 6205 power supply 

Edit 2: all that remains of the 1707b.

[nixiefreqq]

Ok back to more normal programming, here is today's odd eBay item, I mean  , what kind of weed are these guys smoking, I mean this guy clearly knows his stuff.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224118744807?

idk but put some in a pipe for me!   

Look at his other items, some genuine shite there!   


I just won this for £31 shipped:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Spiralux-Fretsaw-1010-/293687280331

gotta' give the guy some slack.....after all he has some wild photography skills.

am puzzled by one of his other listings though.   he makes a point that the pants are not his......they are his brothers.  well that would make all the difference to me.   always wanted some guys brothers pants....but not his pants.

[bd139]

More HP spam. 6205 initial look...

inside. yuck. Someone didn't like the exposed mains wiring (I'm not a fan of it either) but decided masking tape was appropriate. It'll be in a stack here so good.



Front. Looks ok. One knob bust as expected. 3DP job coming up. Might try ABS



Quick brush - looking better already:



So TODO List:

1. Clean it out.
2. Look for anything about to explode.
3. Undo the masking tape job
4. Check the barrier strips are wired up right on the back
5. Check capacitor ESRs and replace if required.
6. Fire up, check meters.
7. Clean up rest of case and desticker.
8. Recalibrate
9. Burn in.
10. Check cal again.
11. 3DP a new knob for it.

Happy so far.

Edit: I actually bought this one for the flexibility. It'll do 80V at 300mA, 2x 15v at 600mA, 20V @ 1.2A etc. Really useful.

[nixiefreqq]

To be honest the only meter I’ve had to use in my car in ten years is a continuity tester and a clamp meter.

Just spent an hour turning that 1707b into its component parts. It hurts slightly but it was way way way beyond repair. Thus it will serve a new life as a parts library. Must have pulled about 25m of wire out of it as well which is good. Oh and a whole load of pots and knobs and RF transistors.

Edit: got my 6205 power supply 

Edit 2: all that remains of the 1707b.


i'm beggin' ya'.   no more pictures of the abattoir floor.

it is too upsetting to my sensitive nature.

[Cerebus]

Ok back to more normal programming, here is today's odd eBay item, I mean  , what kind of weed are these guys smoking, I mean this guy clearly knows his stuff.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224118744807?

"From a smoke and pet free home" - Yeah right, if he wasn't wreathed in ganja smoke when he posted that on eBay then what excuse has he got?

[Cerebus]

I post this tracking detail from a DHL delivery I'm expecting without further comment:

[bd139]

Insides cleaned out, caps checked, functionality checked, light clean done. Works nicely 





Check out all those volts

Next steps: make replacement knob, front panel clean down.

[tggzzz]

I post this tracking detail from a DHL delivery I'm expecting without further comment:

That is worthy of posting on twitter with appropriate hashtags; it might get their attention.

[mnementh]

Ah, geez...  You guys are making me find all sorts of new music I hadn't heard before, now I wanna burn a disc!

I'm trying to head out on the highway (and only have a CD player set up in the van right now) to go to the lake, about 7h from here, but I still have a couple more loads of stuff to get out of what was my parents' house...  It's already gonna be like 5am by the time I get out of here, I don't want to start burning discs now... LOL

I'm almost done, though, luckily!!...  Then VROOM, VROOM!! 
This is what the garage still looked like yesterday:   

Before there was ElectroBOOM! there was drussell !!! 

No kidding... wow. I used to have that VERY garage... almost down to every line item... (TIP120 MCP MonoBlock Power Amps anyone...? ) at the grandpeeples place until like '98. Then it all hadda go, with the exception of a very few rare auto parts (Ram Air IV spec Pontiac 400, some TH400s, a couple Cadd 500s) in the back of my pumpkin orange '64 Falcon van still squirreled away in the back corner of my cousin's property. *sigh*

mnem
*raises a glass to the ORANGE CRATE and all the best kind of trouble we got into together*

[bd139]

Some fun with HP knobs and F360. This should accept the metal doodad, the name of which escapes me, plus some epoxy inside it as a compromise.



Will print one out tomorrow in PLA. I may try ABS for this.

[Cerebus]

I post this tracking detail from a DHL delivery I'm expecting without further comment:

That is worthy of posting on twitter with appropriate hashtags; it might get their attention.

I'm not a twit, therefore I do not Twitter.  I always thought that the name of the service was an inherent warning, like "The Groucho Club".

I can see the value of Twitter as a device for harassing errant corporations and giving certain people a platform to permanently record their ignorance, vanity, cupidity and stupidity, but the whole thing has never appealed to me. I'm good enough at making an public fool of myself to a relatively small audience; why would I want the world as a stage? On the occasions where I have had a very public platform for my opinions I've had the luxury of having a sub-editor between me and public self-shaming - I think I'll keep it that way.

Anyway, I'm quite curious how long that Docklands <=> Heathrow shuffle will continue if the system is left undisturbed. Will it still be circulating back and forth at Christmas?

[Cerebus]

Some fun with HP knobs and F360. This should accept the metal doodad, the name of which escapes me, plus some epoxy inside it as a compromise.

"insert"

[med6753]

Remember I said I wasn't going to re-cap the 5248L because the original cans were riveted in and I didn't want to resort to drilling? Well, forget that. One way or another I'm going to get it done. If it involves drilling so be it.

Did the first capacitor today. By the crystal oven. I was able to mount a terminal strip on a nearby board on an accessible stud without drilling. The original can remains in place and is just visible below that pair of TO-5 transistors. New 510uf/100V cap mounted on the strip.

Because of the complexity of this re-cap going to do one or two at a time and then power up and verify.

[bd139]

Some fun with HP knobs and F360. This should accept the metal doodad, the name of which escapes me, plus some epoxy inside it as a compromise.

"insert"

That's the one. Completely disappeared from my head. Probably all the isopropyl fumes I've been huffing all afternoon 

[mnementh]

Some of those old Ghetto blasters do sound quite good as long as you don't crank the volume to max and then force them to play rap crap. 

Everyone's a hater...

Nothing wrong with Hip-Hop as a genre, though I'll grant you there are some real turds out there. Same can be said of any genre though.

Try and peel me from my Fugees, dead prez, NWA, and I'll pop a cap in your ass.

(SNIP)

My work colleagues think I'm weird for listening to this:


I just tell them it's my ancestors calling me...

I wouldn't mind rap/hip-hop if most of it wasn't about hating and killing people who look like me.  Yeah sure... one can always point to specific examples that aren't hateful, self-destructive, willfully ignorant and/or nauseatingly sexist and/or racist... but the body of work here is primary one or more or all of these things.

As much as I love to bitch about stuff, I am a primarily positive, helpful and constructive person at heart. I am viscerally offended by a world-view that is fundamentally hateful, divisive  and destructive; which is what most of this genre propagates. That literally is its stock in trade.

Your Krigsgaldr vid... overall I like it. They certainly do put on a show; even if the verbal message is coming from a dark place, I grok the construction/deconstruction aspects, and I understand the need to vent those emotions. As long as the drive of the music is generally towards a hopeful place instead of ONLY to reaffirm the hate and rage, I see it as a net positive in the world.

I guess for me the big problem with rap/hip-hop is how much purely hateful shit you have to wade through for the relatively few nuggets of good stuff. That shit gets on you man, and it drags you down. I just don't have the energy any more.

mnem
IMO, YMMV, DQMOT, DILLIGAF, OMFGWTFBBQ...

[Cerebus]

Some fun with HP knobs and F360. This should accept the metal doodad, the name of which escapes me, plus some epoxy inside it as a compromise.

"insert"

That's the one. Completely disappeared from my head. Probably all the isopropyl fumes I've been huffing all afternoon 

Probably went to the same place as SWMBO's 3rd pair of reading glasses. 

[med6753]

I guess for me the big problem with rap/hip-hop is how much purely hateful shit you have to wade through for the relatively few nuggets of good stuff. That shit gets on you man, and it drags you down. I just don't have the energy any more.

mnem
IMO, YMMV, DQMOT, DILLIGAF, OMFGWTFBBQ...

This is how much I hate that garbage.  Warning, NSFW.