Test Equipment Anonymous

Bugger colour dev and printing. I have 3 rolls of Kodak Gold 200 turning up tomorrow. I plan to blow one in the next month (after the roll of HP5 in the body) and get it developed locally. Then throw the other two at Berlin in March. I have a place lined up who will process it there already. No prin...

Bit further down the photography rabbit hole. We like rabbit holes here don't we?

Way too much eBay later we have .... a Durst 305 and a pile of chemicals and widgets.


Followed by a back ache and some swearing ....

As for printing, I have a little Canon Selphy printer that does 6x4" prints on dye sub as good as a professional print shop. That's a reasonable option. Laser printer, hmm not sure about that :) But yeah phone / digital cameras are good for documentation and utility. How often do you want a re...

Every single camera is crap, unless it is available and working when you want it. That's a significant advantage of modern digital compact cameras. Decent ones allow focussing down to 1cm, which is great for components and Tek 475 mechanisms :) https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/renovating-an-ear...

I wish 35mm Kodachrome 64 was still available. Then I could continue to take stereo photos with my Stereo Realist camera. They still make 35mm colour reversal film. It is quite frankly bloody expensive though. Stereoscopic needs the fine grain of 64ASA. Larger grain cannot be ignored by the brain, ...

Keep it. Don't lose it. Very handy things. Surprisingly film isn't even not even remotely dead. I didn't realise this until recently. There's a bit of resurgence I've noticed in separating activities from the mobile phone. This is a good thing. Makes people look and think and consider more. I've so...

A couple of years back I was walking down the street and there was a young woman about 20 with a Pentax film camera. I commented on it and she said this was real photography. It conjured up images of Cartier-Bresson, who thought cropping a photo in post capture was disgusting manipulation. He was r...

Good grief! Film is still available? I have an F4 (not that I've used it for years). I wish 35mm Kodachrome 64 was still available. Then I could continue to take stereo photos with my Stereo Realist camera. They still make 35mm colour reversal film. It is quite frankly bloody expensive though.

Will note how far down the rabbit hole this photography thing is going ... this was shot on Ilford HP5 on a Nikon F80 and developed at home :lol: DSC_0506.jpeg Yes, something has been lost with the almost passing of film photography. I remember the magic of seeing an image appear in the developer s...

A little off topic but I must inform bd139. Your heart throb buxom redhead Christina Hendricks is in a Netflix series "Good Girls" which is a pretty good watch in addition to the eye candy. And boy is that some nice eye candy. :lol: I don't know if that series is available on Netflix UK b...

I use a parser generator (I wrote one) for that and a proper language. The only way. Some of the stuff I see people parsing with awk/perl is horrifying. awk makes for a pretty powerful and always efficient parser if your file format is remotely decent. Latest thing I wrote for money in it is a thin...

IMHO the 4[6,7,8]x semiconductors and ICs are all pretty similar. Sometimes the mechanical construction of the 485 makes it a real pig to service, though. Standard Tektronix. The Perl of oscilloscopes. Write/Build only. Modify/repair is hell. Yeah :( I looked at PERL, thought thank the <deity> I do...

Here's one of the functional 485's on top of a 2235. The later series of portable TEK scopes tend to be much easier to service with the advent of LSI circuitry. Those 465/475/485's were still packed with discrete components. IMHO the 4[6,7,8]x semiconductors and ICs are all pretty similar. Sometime...

I've been in the room when it was running at TNMOC. It sure feels like 2.8kw!

That's a very unusual Farnell power supply; never knew they made a programmable version. In the 80s and 90s, Farnell LT30 supplies were ubiquitous in teaching and at the BBC. Wireless World was full of adverts for them from the 70s onwards. As mentioned, they also made quite reasonable signal gener...

Hey I used to get all my ripped off Cisco IOS firmware from .ru domains

Realism: you didn't say "find the faulty tant" :) Hey I did find it in the end. It was however disguised as a silver mica! post6_vJAH1z1_gpEbN.jpg The yellow bead one with the brown dot? Oh no that'd be too easy. Yes that is actually indeed a tant. post6_vJAH1z1_gpEbN.jpg

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Oct 03, 2025 10:09 am Realism: you didn't say "find the faulty tant"

Hey I did find it in the end. It was however disguised as a silver mica!

It's probably fine. Those things go off all the time like the paranoid crackies they are.

Good to know it was ripped off though.

I’ve wrestled a 7L12 before. Hours of fun! Even when they are fully functional, as this one happily seems to be, they are not "user friendly". It is bit like having a performing bear! :D That's part of the fun! :lol: Also playing find the tant at 2AM! post15_7sAY8gf_anzWF.jpg

I’ve wrestled a 7L12 before.

Hours of fun!

So went on a little trip at the weekend. Came across this bit of gear lurking in a museum. I have all the luck!

Oh yea.....lots of unwashed grubby looking hobos sitting at a table with coffee and donuts. Is it a requirement that hams must look like they come out of the cellar once a year? :roll: Amateur radio is an ageing hobby in the UK, so there aren't that many young people at these events. There's a type...

On the subject of grubby looking hobos, the Tesla coil people seem to wash up quite well compared to the hams. See https://teanonymous.com/f1/viewtopic.php?t=428 Please excuse the lack of replies on the forum for a bit. Been rather busy. Discord allows immediacy and brevity so that is getting some a...

Sounds like hell. Would rather have a couple of CFM56's shoving me along. At least if you do something wrong it indicates to you verbally that you're a retard. Don't need to be told anything in a glider. If you do something wrong in a glider one of three things happens: it gets very quiet (and the ...