Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[tautech]

Also about a Landy if it didn't have a Safari roof...hot as hell in the summer and dripped condensation in the winter.
Noisy inside there were too until you contact adhesived carpet over the whole inside of the roof......then you didn't need the radio up so loud and/or could then actually hold a conversation with your passengers without need to yell.
Then they didn't drip in winter was the additional benefit. 

[AVGresponding]

My car also all round parking sensors and also parking assist which can detect if your car will fit into a space or not and will steer the car for  you, all you have to is go forward/reverse as instructed and stop. It can do this for roadside parking or end on parking in car parks etc. I have only ever used this feature once when I first got the car to test it out. As a person who has driven both buses and lorries, I'm more than capable of parking a considerably smaller and shorter car on my own, but there are people who would clearly benefit from this feature.

The car also has adaptive mirrors, that when reversing, the passenger mirror moves to show the kerb by the rear wheel and rear corner to assist in getting closer to the kerb. All the mirrors at nighttime will automatically progressively become tinted to prevent being blinded by the headlights of cars behind you.

None of these features can be considered as dangerous, what about radar equipped cruise control to maintain a safe distance from the car in front?, lane keeping assist?, blind spot monitoring and autonomous braking to lessen the impact of a crash that the driver had not seen looming, perhaps due to driver fatigue etc, do you not approve of these? Good luck if you do get that TT because some of these items might well be standard on it.

No, I do not approve. I would approve of people being taught how to drive properly, the Police being properly funded so that we could have enough traffic cops instead of the purely and cynically revenue generating speed cameras, and some proper enforcement therefore, with stiff penalties.

All those so called safety devices are about covering up for poor driving. What happens when one fails when you need it? You're fucked, especially if you've only ever driven modern cars, and have no idea how to re-establish lost grip, whether lateral or longitudinal.
If you're too tired to drive, don't drive. It's pretty much as dangerous as drink driving.

Ultimately, as a driver you're in charge of a large and heavy mass which is capable of doing a lot of damage to (mostly) other people (these days, thanks to all the safety bullshit, the driver usually survives) and property. Either learn how to use it correctly, or get the fuck off the road.

/rant

[bd139]

Also about a Landy if it didn't have a Safari roof...hot as hell in the summer and dripped condensation in the winter.
Noisy inside there were too until you contact adhesived carpet over the whole inside of the roof......then you didn't need the radio up so loud and/or could then actually hold a conversation with your passengers without need to yell.
Then they didn't drip in winter was the additional benefit. 

Safari roof had its own problem though. If you went round a right bend with a cyclist on your left he’d get a face full of moss. If you went round a left bend, oncoming drivers would get moss on their screens. Nothing ever came out of the back or the front though because it didn’t accelerate fast enough and the brakes barely worked. 

[tautech]

Also about a Landy if it didn't have a Safari roof...hot as hell in the summer and dripped condensation in the winter.
Noisy inside there were too until you contact adhesived carpet over the whole inside of the roof......then you didn't need the radio up so loud and/or could then actually hold a conversation with your passengers without need to yell.
Then they didn't drip in winter was the additional benefit. 

Safari roof had its own problem though. If you went round a right bend with a cyclist on your left he’d get a face full of moss. If you went round a left bend, oncoming drivers would get moss on their screens. Nothing ever came out of the back or the front though because it didn’t accelerate fast enough and the brakes barely worked. 

Yeah the power from the standard mill was pitiful and if you had the diesel variant even worse....only 46hp IIRC. 
My S3 had been a diesel one with factory Fairy OD that had blown before I got it because if their shaft seals leaked the oil was lost into the transfer case instead of on the ground like all their other leaks but at least you had a signal to check the OD oil if it leaked onto the ground.
Still, checking the OD oil was damn simple under the hatch under the middle seat squab and as I shelled out a bit of coin for the OD I fitted to replace the stuffed Fairy one I checked its oil level religiously.

[mnementh]

   https://www.amazon.com/Seeeduino-Smallest-Microcontroller-Interfaces-Compatible/dp/B087D2VSBL/

Okay, now that's freaky. I found the screws I needed in black for cheap... so I started looking for ATSAMD21G18 boards (Like the Adafruit Adafruit Metro M0) from the CircuitPython "Already Supported" list that were actually in stock up here so I could get started with CircuitPython. Got a Ardu MKR Zero on the way, but these were on the same page.

So out of curiosity I dropped a 3-pack of 'em in my cart. Looks like pretty much a ATTiny85 thumbnail board, only with ARM 32-bit power; and even if I can't get the Python interpreter image to work on it (I know I'd have to add some form of storage for the Python scripts), can always fall back on the Ardu IDE to make some use of them; maybe do Father & Son Time or summat.

mnem
 

Nice toy those boards. Let us know if it works out as I’m after some small microcontrollers that I don’t have to argue with C any more with. Done too many years of that now. I’m fucking done 
On ARM, yesterday was actually the 32nd anniversary of my ARM based desktop computer ownership. I blew my entire inheritance from someone on an Acorn Archimedes. This machine lasted until around 1995 when it was replaced with a RiscPC. Then I left the market for Windows NT in 1997 with a Compaq Professional Workstation 5000. Sad times.

But here I sit now again 32 years later and my main desktop machine is an ARM again, I’m writing this on an ARM phone and discussing ARM microcontrollers. What a ride.

Edit: also a British product that wasn’t shit 

LOL... Yeah, but the money people were.

      

https://www.banggood.com/GY-SAMD21-SAMD21-PCB-Board-Mini-Sensor-Module-Pro-Mini-sized-IDE-ATSAMD21G18-32-bit-ARM-Cortex-M0-FZ3482-Geekcreit-for-Arduino-products-that-work-with-official-Arduino-boards-p-1638942.html

Bang-em-good has a cheap SAMD21 board pretty much the same form factor as the Adafruit Feather or Ardu Nano; I only passed on it because it didn't come with a SDCard onboard like the Ardu MKR Zero. Trying to figure out which of the add-on boards use the same controller IC as the precompiled/supported CircuitPython images made my brain hurt. Oh duh... it's SPI bus. Only gotcha would be wrong device select. 'Course, if you're compiling your own code (or if you have any Kung-Fu at all*) not a problem.  

mnem
    *Still very much applies here.

[tggzzz]

Hahaha. If I can cut a hole in the middle of it I’m good 

Easy.

Only £36: https://www.completecareshop.co.uk/chairs-and-seating/chair-pressure-cushions-high-risk/harley-designer-ring-cushion

[tggzzz]

Also about a Landy if it didn't have a Safari roof...hot as hell in the summer and dripped condensation in the winter.
Noisy inside there were too until you contact adhesived carpet over the whole inside of the roof......then you didn't need the radio up so loud and/or could then actually hold a conversation with your passengers without need to yell.
Then they didn't drip in winter was the additional benefit. 

Safari roof had its own problem though. If you went round a right bend with a cyclist on your left he’d get a face full of moss. If you went round a left bend, oncoming drivers would get moss on their screens. Nothing ever came out of the back or the front though because it didn’t accelerate fast enough and the brakes barely worked. 

Acceleration wasn't the problem with my 4.2l Perkins diesel! It would go up any hill at 54mph, when it hit the speed governor.

But brakes? What were they?

[Specmaster]

Hahaha. If I can cut a hole in the middle of it I’m good 

Ya can't because they are out of stock   

[Specmaster]

My car also all round parking sensors and also parking assist which can detect if your car will fit into a space or not and will steer the car for  you, all you have to is go forward/reverse as instructed and stop. It can do this for roadside parking or end on parking in car parks etc. I have only ever used this feature once when I first got the car to test it out. As a person who has driven both buses and lorries, I'm more than capable of parking a considerably smaller and shorter car on my own, but there are people who would clearly benefit from this feature.

The car also has adaptive mirrors, that when reversing, the passenger mirror moves to show the kerb by the rear wheel and rear corner to assist in getting closer to the kerb. All the mirrors at nighttime will automatically progressively become tinted to prevent being blinded by the headlights of cars behind you.

None of these features can be considered as dangerous, what about radar equipped cruise control to maintain a safe distance from the car in front?, lane keeping assist?, blind spot monitoring and autonomous braking to lessen the impact of a crash that the driver had not seen looming, perhaps due to driver fatigue etc, do you not approve of these? Good luck if you do get that TT because some of these items might well be standard on it.

No, I do not approve. I would approve of people being taught how to drive properly, the Police being properly funded so that we could have enough traffic cops instead of the purely and cynically revenue generating speed cameras, and some proper enforcement therefore, with stiff penalties.

All those so called safety devices are about covering up for poor driving. What happens when one fails when you need it? You're fucked, especially if you've only ever driven modern cars, and have no idea how to re-establish lost grip, whether lateral or longitudinal.
If you're too tired to drive, don't drive. It's pretty much as dangerous as drink driving.

Ultimately, as a driver you're in charge of a large and heavy mass which is capable of doing a lot of damage to (mostly) other people (these days, thanks to all the safety bullshit, the driver usually survives) and property. Either learn how to use it correctly, or get the fuck off the road.

/rant

Who pissed in your cornflakes then 

Has your Cavalier even got ABS on it? Mine didn't. If any of the things on my car packed up, I'd still be able to drive and handle it, when I did my apprenticeship on the buses, it was company policy that anyone who would ever have to drive a bus for what ever reason, had to go through their driving school for training. When it was time, I had to go out for a day with a load of other trainees who were being trained to be full time PSV holding bus drivers. They all took a turn in the driver's seat of a double-decker while I sat and waited. We pulled into Braintree depot and had lunch, after which the instructor said it was my turn in the seat and I got to drive back from Braintree to Chelmsford depot in the snow. The instructor went straight to my mechanical superintendent and asked him what was the big idea of sending me over to the driving school, he said that he had never seen driving skills like it and that I from that point on cleared to drive  . When there was a broken down bus and the mechanics were already out in the breakdown truck, I'd get sent out with a replacement bus so that the driver could transfer his passengers to it and continue the journey. I'd have to effect whatever repairs were needed to get the broken bus driveable and limp it back to the depot. I never failed to get back unaided.

[beanflying]

CrusTEA @Brumby you need a cross town trip  eBay auction: #174615604780

[mansaxel]

I've always Fancied a 101" FC Radio Body

Immediatly made me think of Terrängbil 11, or as its known globally, Volvo C303:





These are petrol driven, with a straight 6cyl Volvo B30, double Zentih/Stromberg carbs, and a special high-torque cam. Very thirsty. Always 24V electrics. Of course completely lacking crumple zones. Weight-wise they're classed as "light truck" so can be driven on a common car license (unless you're military, then you need a special permit. Hell, you need a special permit to drive an ordinary civilian-type car in the military too.).

They're very, very good offroad; a standard issue model won the 1983 Paris-Dakar, light truck class. I'd originally wanted the aluminium body radio version, preferably converted to a Mercedes diesel, but now that I've got the necessary license and some sense of right proper vehicular class, I'm aiming for a Terrängbil 30:





It's a Scania 6-cyl truck diesel, automatic gearbox, all-wheel drive in off-road conditions, and over 80% civilian parts, still orderable from Scania. (TBH the same was true of the C303, at least engine-wise, but now that Volvo Cars has divested themselves of most legacy you have to look at specialists for most parts.) It can be equipped with a 10-person cab in the rear, and is probably the ultimate camper. Not legal for environmental reasons in cities, though.

[Brumby]

CrusTEA @Brumby you need a cross town trip  eBay auction: #174615604780

Not floating my boat, I'm afraid.

But thanks for trying.   

[beanflying]

Why not is only a slightly crusty Anchor 

Seems I added one to my lot eBay auction: #133645371427 I hold no real hopes for it. Worst case is is an expensive Fluke Box Might be some hope it is some Black wire cancer under the hood.

[med6753]

CrusTEA @Brumby you need a cross town trip  eBay auction: #174615604780

Not floating my boat, I'm afraid.

But thanks for trying.   

The listing says Telequipment D31 but the picture is actually a Tek 564. Something ain't right.   

Edit, better to pass it by anyway. The special storage CRT is probably worn out but will still display real time. Those CRT's have a short lifespan.

[beanflying]

The person who selling it is believing the extra manual not the actual item 

[med6753]

The person who selling it is believing the extra manual not the actual item 

D'OH. 

[AVGresponding]

Who pissed in your cornflakes then 

Has your Cavalier even got ABS on it? Mine didn't. If any of the things on my car packed up, I'd still be able to drive and handle it, when I did my apprenticeship on the buses, it was company policy that anyone who would ever have to drive a bus for what ever reason, had to go through their driving school for training. When it was time, I had to go out for a day with a load of other trainees who were being trained to be full time PSV holding bus drivers. They all took a turn in the driver's seat of a double-decker while I sat and waited. We pulled into Braintree depot and had lunch, after which the instructor said it was my turn in the seat and I got to drive back from Braintree to Chelmsford depot in the snow. The instructor went straight to my mechanical superintendent and asked him what was the big idea of sending me over to the driving school, he said that he had never seen driving skills like it and that I from that point on cleared to drive  . When there was a broken down bus and the mechanics were already out in the breakdown truck, I'd get sent out with a replacement bus so that the driver could transfer his passengers to it and continue the journey. I'd have to effect whatever repairs were needed to get the broken bus driveable and limp it back to the depot. I never failed to get back unaided.

The Vauxhall Cavalier I owned in the late '80s indeed predated ABS.

And you are only proving my point; you were taught how to drive without all the modern crap, as was I. Consequently we do know how to react when things go wrong. Modern drivers, for the most part do not, and frequently only find out that fact at speeds we would have struggled to reach in similar conditions, in the vehicles of the day.

[Brumby]

The person who selling it is believing the extra manual not the actual item 

Yeah.... Like it's hard.

[Ice-Tea]

Is it just me or is the forum picture attachment functionality more borked up than normal?

I see a minuature and when I click on it, it's another picture?

Nope, is this a picture that you are trying post, or is one attached to another post?

Edit, I'll assume its one you want to post, so what you need to do is not select the first option to add a photo but click on add another and leave the first spot blank. The select the photo you want to post on the 2nd and the subsequent additions etc.

No, from other people. I see a miniature preview in the attachment and then when I click on it, it's something else.

How hard can it be to fix this?

[tggzzz]

I've always Fancied a 101" FC Radio Body

Immediatly made me think of Terrängbil 11, or as its known globally, Volvo C303:





These are petrol driven, with a straight 6cyl Volvo B30, double Zentih/Stromberg carbs, and a special high-torque cam. Very thirsty. Always 24V electrics. Of course completely lacking crumple zones. Weight-wise they're classed as "light truck" so can be driven on a common car license (unless you're military, then you need a special permit. Hell, you need a special permit to drive an ordinary civilian-type car in the military too.).

They're very, very good offroad; a standard issue model won the 1983 Paris-Dakar, light truck class. I'd originally wanted the aluminium body radio version, preferably converted to a Mercedes diesel, but now that I've got the necessary license and some sense of right proper vehicular class, I'm aiming for a Terrängbil 30:





It's a Scania 6-cyl truck diesel, automatic gearbox, all-wheel drive in off-road conditions, and over 80% civilian parts, still orderable from Scania. (TBH the same was true of the C303, at least engine-wise, but now that Volvo Cars has divested themselves of most legacy you have to look at specialists for most parts.) It can be equipped with a 10-person cab in the rear, and is probably the ultimate camper. Not legal for environmental reasons in cities, though.

How about something with ground clearance due to interesting axles: the UniMog...

[bd139]

I wouldn’t want to stop too quick with that load 

[tautech]

I wouldn’t want to stop too quick with that load 

Yep, those logs would sure ream you back passage ! 

[bd139]

Hahahaha 

[Specmaster]

I've always Fancied a 101" FC Radio Body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_101_Forward_Control#/media/File:Land_Rover_101_Forward_Control.jpg
There is a very Dilapidated GS in the village, beyond what I'd attempt, but even so the owner won't sell it so it's rotting away.

About 20 years ago, when I still used to regularly go hillwalking in the kind of places a Landie would be a good idea, I gave some very serious consideration to getting a 101 FC, either radio body (comparatively rare), or ambulance body (comparatively common) to use as an ersatz camper van.

How about this one?

[mansaxel]

I've always Fancied a 101" FC Radio Body

Immediately made me think of Terrängbil 11, or as its known globally, Volvo C303:

How about something with ground clearance due to interesting axles: the UniMog...

The C303 has portal axles, just like the Unimog (it's in the Wikipedia article I linked  ):

The C3 series feature portal axles with locking differentials resulting in very high ground-clearance (similar to the Unimog) and outstanding performance offroad.