Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Saskia]

*FOOF*

[mnementh]

I wake up this morning and find this.  Now you can mock me all you want but this is just playing dirty.  This is like waving a red cape in front of a bull. Or a tied up Ulysses hearing the call of the sirens and nearly going mad. Or the time the batshit redhead creeped into my place and I found her stretched out in her birthday suit on my bed beckoning me to join her. 

What can I do? Must resist. (But not the redhead. I was weak.  ). With all my will power I removed the sign, ripped it up, and binned it. And now I'm going back to bed and pretend it never happen. I need help. 

It was obviously the Siglent; Tektronix abhors serif fonts. 

mnem
no man can say no to the crazy-ass redhead. I think the resistance is in that part of the X-chromosome which breaks off to make a Y-chromosome.

[ch_scr]

*FOOF*

The only case where you would be allowed in the chem lab would be immediately before the demolition of the building.
Wether said demolition was long planned or incidental... 

[Cerebus]

A reminder, as if it needed making, that: "Association football is a game for gentlemen, that is played by thugs, and rugby football is a game for thugs that is played by gentlemen".

One could add the footnote that rugby league and Australian no-rules football are games for thugs played by thugs.

I recommend adopting some rules from Icelandic mud football. For example, when a player is fouled, the other player has to give him a kiss on the fouled area.

 

We have an informal rule like that in Rugby Union, something to do with a good rough loofaing in the baths afterward. 

[Cerebus]

That looks about as stable as me after two bottles of rum. 

[Follows link] Amazing that something that looks like that is actually stable enough it you can make it and not have the lab spontaneously disassemble in the process.

As they say, "if you enjoyed that you might also like" https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with but make sure you are sitting comfortably an not having to concentrate on Other Things.

I'm well aware of "Things I Won't Work With" and have amused myself for many an hour by reading it.

[Cerebus]

*FOOF*

The only case where you would be allowed in the chem lab would be immediately before the demolition of the building.
Wether said demolition was long planned or incidental... 

My enthusiasm for energetic materials and rapid redox reactions nearly got me banned from the school chem lab on more than one occasion.

[mnementh]

From what I've read, this is one of the larger WLToys vendors in China; if you want your head to  , just noodle around this site for a while and see just how deep the rabbit-hole really goes:

https://www.wltoysrc.com/home/6371-wltoys-12427-upgrade-parts-front-gearbox-op-kit.html

It was the entire gestalt of the thing that tells me it was a head-on collision; I've done it enough times I can see the entire geometry of the front of the car in my head. What most likely happened is when it hit, the front end tried to roll up in a ball, placing both compression and torsional load right on that joint. The gearcase and front of the frame-tub has enough give that the whole thing tried to twist upward & back, which it couldn't because of the dogbone captive in that cup. Ka-toink! went that little m2 screw, as it was the smallest piece of metal in the line of all that force.

As I've run over both of my cars with the other at speed many times, I doubt that LED got knocked loose from the PCB by a simple whack from a branch; much more likely it got broke loose by the impact and then pulled off by the branches afterwards.

Good hunting!

Uh Oh...      I went here:   www.wltoysrc.com
Everything was competitively or in a few cases better priced than the other sources we have been looking at. I should have news on this shopping experiment in about a month when the slow boat arrives.

Yup. That's the homepage of the site I linked you to for the front gearbox. There is so-oh-oh-ohoho much mods and spares for these cars on there it's a bit freaky. No surprise the big guys selling the big names have such a hard time keeping a brick & mortar open and bills paid when the market for these is so cut-throat and the fun/$ ratio is so high.

mnem
 

[mnementh]

I am alive. Very busy with the relocation and the 8 weeks old son (right now with digital output: 1 cry or 0 sleep). Can't wait to post you guys pics of my new lab (4x time bigger than the Deutsch one). Back to madness now. I miss you all and some sane TEA.

Congratulations, Zucca, and thanks for stopping in. Looking forward to seeing the new lab (4x!).

The stripling actually has a quad state output that varies wildly at any given time: cry, sleep, poop and pee in your face when changing his diaper.  Been there, done that and got the washcloth.

Ah, I used to strategically place a washcloth.  It seems like so long ago, but with the reminder it feels like yesterday again.

It is the parental state that appears to be binary:  Love 1, Sleep 0.

Amen.

mnem
The toughest job you'll ever love...

[mnementh]

... for example hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane: "Hexanitro? Say what? I’d call for all the chemists who’ve ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio"

That looks about as stable as me after two bottles of rum.     [Follows link] Amazing that something that looks like that is actually stable enough it you can make it and not have the lab spontaneously disassemble in the process.

What...? just a simple household cleaner...

mnem
...and just look at how much cleaner your street looks without all those pesky households littering the landscape!

[tggzzz]

*FOOF*

Here's the link to his dioxygen diflouride post: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride

[AVGresponding]

I've no tolerance for cheating.

I've no tolerance for this kind of thing, especially during a penalty:

What kind of assholes are doing this? 
If I'll spot an idiot with a laser pointing to people, I'd make sure that he is going to eat that damned thing.

Yes, UEFA is investigating the FA, which in turn is forcing the FA to investigate this and the national anthem booing incidents.
With all the cameras in the grounds these days, it should be possible to identify the person responsible, which will mean a lifetime ban from matches and hopefully a criminal conviction.

I've had a green laser pointed at me while driving, and if I could have seen who did it, I'd have beaten the shit out of them first, then called the cops.

[kleiner Rainer]

A very nice book for Saskia:

https://archive.org/details/ignition_201612

 

Greetings,

Rainer

[med6753]

Well I'm glad I took a nap and slept through all that soccer stuff.  But I will give credit where credit is due and say congrats to the English. (Wow, that nearly choked me  )

I can't watch organized sports on TV either. But many, many years ago I was watching this game which for the first 9 innings of regulation play was a real snoozer.  The game was tied after regulation 9 innings so went into "extra" innings. But the rules for winning are slightly different. Yanks and Canadians will understand it, the rest of you just play along. This game went absolutely bizarro with one of the strangest endings ever. 

[med6753]

no man can say no to the crazy-ass redhead. I think the resistance is in that part of the X-chromosome which breaks off to make a Y-chromosome.

Nor a bare assed one. 

[AVGresponding]

Well I'm glad I took a nap and slept through all that soccer stuff.  But I will give credit where credit is due and say congrats to the English. (Wow, that nearly choked me  )

I can't watch organized sports on TV either. But many, many years ago I was watching this game which for the first 9 innings of regulation play was a real snoozer.  The game was tied after regulation 9 innings so went into "extra" innings. But the rules for winning are slightly different. Yanks and Canadians will understand it, the rest of you just play along. This game went absolutely bizarro with one of the strangest endings ever. 

A crazy ending eh..? Did Charlie Brown actually win then?   

[Saskia]

That's a different game.

[med6753]

A crazy ending eh..? Did Charlie Brown actually win then?   

Good 'ole Charlie Brown was on the losing side like he always is. 

[med6753]

Today is one of those days where I've accomplished nothing and don't feel like doing anything. But hey, I'm retired so there's always tomorrow. 

But the parts for the Heath V-5 rebuild did show up as promised.

[bd139]

All this sport 

This is more like it.

[Cerebus]

Well I'm glad I took a nap and slept through all that soccer stuff.  But I will give credit where credit is due and say congrats to the English. (Wow, that nearly choked me  )

I can't watch organized sports on TV either. But many, many years ago I was watching this game which for the first 9 innings of regulation play was a real snoozer.  The game was tied after regulation 9 innings so went into "extra" innings. But the rules for winning are slightly different. Yanks and Canadians will understand it, the rest of you just play along. This game went absolutely bizarro with one of the strangest endings ever. 

OK, watched that, couldn't make any sense of it. My limited understanding of baseball is that you get three goes at trying to hit a ball and if you do you stand a chance of scoring (with a bit of chasing other men in overly tight trousers around followed apparently by hugging and kissing*), if you don't you're out. That seemed to be two men, one who can't throw and one who can't hit trying many times more than the three goes, with the "catch me if you can" ritual randomly interspersed. Confused, definitely confused. No, don't explain it to me, I suspect it would only get even weirder if you did.

In other news.

The GPSDO project is temporarily shelved while I wait for some PCBs from China (nearly here). But, I've left the early prototype powered up and running because it's more effort to turn off than not, and [Looks at PSU front panel] 170mA @ 5V isn't exactly going to make a dent in the next electricity bill. Earlier today I happened to notice it was still running and out of curiosity fired up a terminal to watch the debug output. It's been running for days and days (I really have no idea how long) and is currently holding time against UTC to better than 100ns and frequency to a few tenths of a part per billion with occasional excursions that I'm sure are noise/EMI related. I know it currently has issues on that front - hence waiting for PCBs with proper ground and power planes to enable me to make some quiet measurements and convince myself that most if not all of the remaining issues can be solved with power and ground planes and perhaps a little PSU filtering. But considering the performance with those known issues this looks to be shaping up nicely. I hope that doesn't turn out to be "famous last words" on the subject.

* Is this some variation on "Kiss Chase", a playground game from my mixed sex primary school days?

[mansaxel]

BD and others might be interested in nitrotetrazole oxides, which comes with the comment "(There is, of course, little reason to do this unless you feel that life is empty without sudden loud noises)"

The "Things I won't work with" blogs got me started on reading Max Gergel. That was an excellent outcome.

[AVGresponding]

Those Japanese micro-robot wars are hilarious and impressive.

At the risk of incurring the wrath of BD by accidentally linking items on his watch list...



My maiden bid has already been overbid, unlikely I'll bid again:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373642932301




A possible case of conductive black goo to solve for BD..?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255042297588




This seems a bit dear for a duff 'un:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255044700359




This hasn't got horribly expensive, yet...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144103664764




Any weightlifters live near Rugeley?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294260029961




My guess is this is not a difficult fix, I just don't have any more space in my repair queue:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224525061182




This might be worth chucking an offer at:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255046178597

[mnementh]

Today is one of those days where I've accomplished nothing and don't feel like doing anything. But hey, I'm retired so there's always tomorrow. 

But the parts for the Heath V-5 rebuild did show up as promised.   

mnem
*currently clearing off my desk*

[GreyWoolfe]

I am alive.

Very busy with the relocation and the 8 weeks old son (right now with digital output: 1 cry or 0 sleep).

Can't wait to post you guys pics of my new lab (4x time bigger than the Deutsch one).

Back to madness now. I miss you all and some sane TEA.

Congratulations, Zucca, and thanks for stopping in. Looking forward to seeing the new lab (4x!).

The stripling actually has a quad state output that varies wildly at any given time: cry, sleep, poop and pee in your face when changing his diaper.  Been there, done that and got the washcloth.

Ah, I used to strategically place a washcloth.  It seems like so long ago, but with the reminder it feels like yesterday again.

It is the parental state that appears to be binary:  Love 1, Sleep 0.

I did too, after the first mishap.  He is 37 now with a new son of his own, born 1/25 or 25/1 for those across the pond.  He has been blessed as he blessed me and is now also using a strategically placed washcloth.  Pop Pop is going to have fun spoiling the grandchild and then giving him back.

[bd139]

All this sentimental talk about kids... Anyone want mine?

My youngest was trying to fart on the middle one and pooped herself earlier, the oldest is currently walking around in complete black face which is apparently a facial treatment and the middle one is making noises like a Clanger.