Test Equipment Anonymous

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.

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3241 In yesterday's Discord, someone mentioned "The Wandering Earth II" , which turned into a bit of a rabbit-hole for me; these movies are Chinese Domestic productions of Liu Cixin's other works. That led me here: https://www....

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3205 Jeebus... just dug ourselves out, and now blizzard conditions again starting right in the middle of the morning commute. Fuck, but mother nature is being a cunt this winter. mnem ehhh… she probably saw Rump's State of the Onion Addr...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3202 https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3203 https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3204 Pics from digging ourselves out yesterday after the 2nd "Storm of the Century" in the la...

So far the "blizzard" here has been a non event. Yes, we have significant snow and some blowing but so far it's much less than the storm a month ago. Easily managed and dealt with. But not so in NYC, Long Island, and where Paul and Pat are located in Connecticut. I'm about 50 miles from t...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?id=3173&mode=view Well, I foolishly bought another treasure on fleabay, without realising how big it is. I've decided to use it as scenery for a futuristic (no steam engines!) OO/HO train layout, representing some form of electrical grid installation...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3198 . https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3199 . https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3201 https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=3200 a few pics from the last st...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?id=3197 This storm is projected to be much worse than the last one; supposedly 13-20"/33-50cm over the next 2 days, and they're warning that with expected freezing rain power outages could last 3-8 days. This is the first we've seen where the severe...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 21, 2026 4:24 pm Batten down the hatches.

Welp… that’s enough of that…

mnem
*fucks off back inside where there’s hot fresh home-made waffles and bacony eggs*

Started tweaking the calibration on the P11 485. First on the agenda was to clean the attenuator switch decks, especially the 1M path. They were dirty. A dab of deoxit then flush with 100% IPA and blow dry. The 50 ohm path on both channels looks pretty good. 10MHz square. The trailing edge ringing ...

Sweet! https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2502-16-Felines/i-X9S9d3K/0/KJ7mPDRhztTrW2255j5wJDNt64zh3PC99gDCHHw6v/XL/25-03-15%20Marconi%2011-XL.jpg That cat has an air of brooding malevolence and barely contained rage. He saw somebody reaching for the power switch on his nutsack-warmer! :lol: mnem &q...

...and NOW:



And it is still BLIZZARD conditions... and some wingnut is out there in it down the street with a snowblower.

mnem

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 23, 2026 1:50 amThis is why I'm glad Harley is an indoor cat. I can just imagine what he might drag home.

mnem