Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[SeanB]

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[Specmaster]

I'll reveal the answer to my question later when a few more possible answers have been submitted.....

Since the poll was done by the BBC chances are the vast majority of the responders were British. Which means the poll results would obviously be biased towards a British car. Same thing would happen if the poll was done here. Would be biased towards an American car.

Whatever the results that type of poll sucks. 

Edit....my answer. AMC Pacer. 

 

wrong, so wrong, that's in illegal response, sir.

[Andrew_Debbie]

Party with vacuum tubes,

Telefunken Industrial tubes.   -- You are sitting on a small fortune.   - Not that anyone should ever strip working vintage TE for the tubes.

I'm glad it is in safe hands.

[Andrew_Debbie]

The bes I could manage in my Landie was, when driving along a single track road, to rotate the steering wheel through +-20degrees, without the car deviating.

That got the attention of oncoming drivers.

Yep the steering drop idlers wear out. Rebushing them is a pretty simple job.

The problem is the use of worm gear instead of rack and pinion. Now, worm gear has some strength advantages, which is why a cross-country vehicle would use it, but it definitely is more play-inducing than rack and pinion.

Even one in good repair, like ours, is a well umm - The steering wheel is used to indicate a preferred direction of travel.  You learn to not expect more from a 110 and just go with it.

I stuck with the factory width rims and tyres in part because the turning circle already sucks and wide tyres make it even larger.   

[Cubdriver]

I'll reveal the answer to my question later when a few more possible answers have been submitted.....

Since the poll was done by the BBC chances are the vast majority of the responders were British. Which means the poll results would obviously be biased towards a British car. Same thing would happen if the poll was done here. Would be biased towards an American car.

Whatever the results that type of poll sucks. 

Edit....my answer. AMC Pacer. 

 

Mine - Mazda Miata, NA, '95-'97 (first generation, with the pop-up headlights and 1.8l 4 cylinder)

-Pat

[tggzzz]

I do not trust myself with driving in the UK.

Your ancestors did a miracle!

The Dagen H still amaze me today.

And then there was the country that learned from that experience, and did it in easy stages - either province by province or by having practice days. Much like "The Two Ronnies" sketch where the gardeners moved the big hole from one end of the garden to the other in easy stages.

[tggzzz]

ZSM381 never looked like that in its wildest dreams.
List of "creature comforts":-

No roof lining
Fixed seats, with the "seat cushion", a slab of foam rubber in a vinyl cover.
Bare metal dash.
Bare minimum of instrumentation.
One wiper
No floor mats
Bare metal pedals.
No door trim.
No heater--ventilation was by opening the rectangular vents under the windscreen.
Sliding windows.

Sounds like my XOM862

But that did have the driver's slab seat replaced by a Mini's seat, and heating fan that was less effective than the gaps.

[BU508A]

Party with vacuum tubes,

Telefunken Industrial tubes.   -- You are sitting on a small fortune.   - Not that anyone should ever strip working vintage TE for the tubes.

I'm glad it is in safe hands.

Now I know what you've meant.
Checked prices on ebay.      
Audiophoolery at work...

[BU508A]

Is "The Great Scott" a silent TEA reader?

Well, decide yourself:

[vk6zgo]

Ah, understood. I call that displacement molding. Did it in university, never encountered it again.

McBryce.

Also called Investment Casting in some industrial circles, a term I found very confusing at first because my mind first went to the financial usage of the word investment and it sounded to me like it was a particularly lucrative casting process.

Ah, that's the word I was trying to remember. We actually called it displacement casting, not molding.

McBryce.

Yebbutt... none of those names specifically refer to the process which uses 3DP, and any means of referencing it using them would be much more convoluted and probably include the term Lost PLA anyways.

To "Makers" familiar with 3DP, Lost PLA means the same as Lost PLA Investment Casting would probably mean to you.

mnem
*toddles off to grill some bits o' pig*

Back in the time when people did such things the old way, it was "lost wax" casting.

[tggzzz]

Back in the time when people did such things the old way, it was "lost wax" casting.

Still is, especially for jewellery - even with 3D printers. https://www.shapeways.com/3d-print-material-technology/wax-casting

[BU508A]

Echoes from a distant past

Part five - The Rohde & Schwarz vacuum tube millivoltmeter UVN BN 12001

(SNIP lots of amazing pics of analog millivolt meter)



...I hope, you've enjoyed it.   I'll add the schematics and pictures of the specs tomorrow. Thank you for watching!

As much as I love that all image-heavy pico-sensitive analog pulchritude... I'm sorry... but my takeaway is...

I wanna mug you for that AWG...

mnem
 

Sometimes I am really very grateful that there is so much water between the dragon and me.

  

[Andrew_Debbie]

Now I know what you've meant.
Checked prices on ebay.      
Audiophoolery at work...

Back when they still made new ones, swapping in a Telefunken equivalent  industrial tube for standard parts could make an audible difference, especially for noise.   But that was in the 60's and 70's. 

Now I just don't see the point at all.   Not at those prices. 

[mansaxel]

Sometimes I am really very grateful that there is so much water between the dragon and me.

  

The Dragon might be an Appalachian Mountain Dragon, but I don't think he's equipped to handle the Schwarzwald. I think you're pretty safe.

[mnementh]

I'll reveal the answer to my question later when a few more possible answers have been submitted.....

Since the poll was done by the BBC chances are the vast majority of the responders were British. Which means the poll results would obviously be biased towards a British car. Same thing would happen if the poll was done here. Would be biased towards an American car.

Whatever the results that type of poll sucks. 

Edit....my answer. AMC Pacer. 

 

wrong, so wrong, that's in illegal response, sir.

I know... I think my brain just suffered a divide-by-zero segfault; would somebody please reboot it by kicking my wheelie chair...?

mnem
Yes, I actually do know just how much wrong there is in that statement... 

[mnementh]

Sometimes I am really very grateful that there is so much water between the dragon and me.

  

The Dragon might be an Appalachian Mountain Dragon, but I don't think he's equipped to handle the Schwarzwald. I think you're pretty safe.

No need. Cousin Imogene lives in the Black Forest; I'll just drop her a e. 

mnem

[McBryce]

I do not trust myself with driving in the UK.

Your ancestors did a miracle!

The Dagen H still amaze me today.

And then there was the country that learned from that experience, and did it in easy stages - either province by province or by having practice days. Much like "The Two Ronnies" sketch where the gardeners moved the big hole from one end of the garden to the other in easy stages.

There was the old joke that Ireland was planning to change to LHD too. To make things easier they decided that trucks and buses would swap on the 1st of January and if all went well, passenger cars would swap over from the 1st of February. 

McBryce.

[Robert763]

A small package arrived this morning. It’s the LEM PR30 AKA Fluke i30s. Looks in very good condition. Just time for a quick DC check at lunch time. All working well Fluke sez BAM 

So thats 22 clamps and 3 transformers 

[mnementh]

"w00t!" go the voltmutts! 

mnem
 

[mnementh]

There was the old joke that Ireland was planning to change to LHD too. To make things easier they decided that trucks and buses would swap on the 1st of January and if all went well, passenger cars would swap over from the 1st of February. 

McBryce.

I remember great-gramma Eddards tellin' me aboot the Eye-rishhh...

She had it on good authority that the Irish gave the bagpipe to the Scots as a joke; but they never caught on. 

mnem
"It might not scream so loud if you'd quit squeezin' it to death..."   

[Cerebus]

31181

One could make 3118ii which, because it must be in at least base j (= 19₁₀), would be much bigger.

[Specmaster]

I'll reveal the answer to my question later when a few more possible answers have been submitted.....

Since the poll was done by the BBC chances are the vast majority of the responders were British. Which means the poll results would obviously be biased towards a British car. Same thing would happen if the poll was done here. Would be biased towards an American car.

Whatever the results that type of poll sucks. 

Edit....my answer. AMC Pacer. 

 

wrong, so wrong, that's in illegal response, sir.

I know... I think my brain just suffered a divide-by-zero segfault; would somebody please reboot it by kicking my wheelie chair...?

mnem
Yes, I actually do know just how much wrong there is in that statement... 

WTF, are feeling OK, it wasn't you who posted that, it was Papa Smurf, your guess was the Black London Taxi, which was quite an informed guess after all 

[Specmaster]

I do not trust myself with driving in the UK.

Your ancestors did a miracle!

The Dagen H still amaze me today.

And then there was the country that learned from that experience, and did it in easy stages - either province by province or by having practice days. Much like "The Two Ronnies" sketch where the gardeners moved the big hole from one end of the garden to the other in easy stages.

There was the old joke that Ireland was planning to change to LHD too. To make things easier they decided that trucks and buses would swap on the 1st of January and if all went well, passenger cars would swap over from the 1st of February. 

McBryce.

LMAO 

[Saskia]

that would describe the state of the German government atm ... Enuff politics tho.

@Zucca I already showed you how to build a nice audio streamer with high quality PC parts ...

[mnementh]

31181

One could make 3118ii which, because it must be in at least base j (= 19₁₀), would be much bigger.

Cutting the heads off the matchsticks with a razor is cheating.   

mnem
Not that I'd try and stop you...