Test Equipment Anonymous

For those who're interested, I finally got around to posting pics from my visit to the October VRCMCT Swap Meet:

mnem
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These are the last of my "tourist pics": https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3466 . https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3467 This is what I finally took home: https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3468 https://tean...

But most of the really interesting stuff was inside, from the museum's collection/parts archive...

Because it was a smaller meet, I was able to just hang out and ratchet-jaw with a few other like-minded “curators of the family estate”…

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3473 https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3425 . https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3426 I dunno what the dealio was this meet; much fewer attendees than the one in April. All these are...

EC8010 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 07, 2026 9:18 am Wow! That power supply is (as the seller honestly declares) "in bad shape". Whatever happened to it to cause that? Parachute failed to open?
(SNIP)

mnem
not touching that with a barge pole.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2026 7:26 pm

mnementh wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2026 1:08 am (SNIP)
Hoard-Anon meets Wednesdays at 20:00.

Blondie sez my lab is a hoard.

mnem
guilty as charged.

EC8010 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2026 9:22 am No picture to be seen?

mnem
fixed?

EC8010 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2026 2:24 pm (SNIP)There was a Myford ML7 in lovely condition and quite well tooled, but whilst two lathes are useful, a third isn't. But I gave the son some advice on selling it and its tooling.

mnem
that is all.

For the moment, I'm going to enjoy the novelty of being able to move around without stubbing my toes. When you walk in the country, you see barely marked paths on the grass or leaf litter, caused by wild animals repeatedly following the same path on their perambulations. My house is like that; cons...

nixiefreqq wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2026 2:50 am so who broke the first thread?

was it cubdriver or avgresponding?

people trust those guys with valuable and delicate test instruments.......and yet they broke the internet!

i tooted. sorry.

mnem

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Anders posted this epic kitten in the Discord yesterday; it actually made me laugh IRL. Don't worry, it's not the least bit political; the link is safe even for work.

mnem
I, on the other hand, am not.

I'm having this Metcal MX-500P station: https://i.imgur.com/rlho5Nw.jpg Now, if I want to add the desoldering gun MX-DS1, what air pump do I need? Haven't found any useful information on the Metcal website. https://store.metcal.com/en-us/shop/soldering-desoldering/hand-pieces/MX-DS1 Where can I fin...

Quiet on here. Some months ago I bought a somewhat tatty HP 8591E 1.8 GHz spectrum analyser. Looked like a bad display but it was just dirty. So easy fix. No options. Last month I put out a request to buy a HPIB interface for it. I had an offer of one from a 8594E free of charge. BIt far away but n...

that clock with extra hands puzzled me. so I googled "clock with two minutes hands", and wadda' ya' know. it really is an interesting story. never heard about that happening anywhere around here. can't imagine pittsburgh and philly ever keeping their own local time. but then again maybe.....

mnem
oh dear... just a couple weeks away...

A piece of good news and a miracle of sorts. After nearly 6 days Motley showed up. Apparently OK. Where he was is a mystery. I will keep further opinions of that whole situation to myself. :roll: Good that furry family was reunited with his people. :) mnem Dogs come when they are called. Cats take ...

mnem
Do not feed him after midnight.

mnem
*retaliatory strike*

Oh dear... just a week away. Is anybelly coming to meet for lunch this time? Cheers, mnem yes, you may touch it. I would love to go but Blondie is having the remaining kidney stones removed on Friday. Def a higher priority. The June one is usually the biggest of the season unless we get rained out,...

nixiefreqq wrote: ↑Thu Jun 04, 2026 9:50 pmps for the love of god ........if med buys that 1725 and paints it blue........don't anyone tell me.

mnem

Oh dear... just a week away. Is anybelly coming to meet for lunch this time?

Cheers,

mnem
yes, you may touch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1KRueLhJv4 https://www.youtube.com/@ReBootRewindDoc https://linktr.ee/rebootrewind I dunno aboot you guys, but ReBoot was an important part of my youth, and there's a project trying to restore it and re-release it in its original glory. This involves resurrecting 30...

I like that. I did it slightly differently. I'd go see my boss, say that I wanted a Tek but that I didn't think we could justify the list price of £xxxxx. I'd suggest that we could perhaps justify £xxxxx and what did he think? We would generally agree on an absolute limit and I'd go back and haggle...

mnem
that is all.