Test Equipment Anonymous

I have a picture somewhere of daffodils in full flower, weighed down by about 3 inches of snow. I recall it was taken in early April about 8 years back. Very unusual for the south west of England, but it does happen from time to time. For the past three weeks the weather has been unusually warm and...

Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum...

mnem

What I find much more telling is how many owners of such animals' appearance is so very much like them. It's as if looking like you were swallowing your face were a cultural value or something. :lol: mnem "It's like watching a train wreck; you're horrified, but you can't look away..."

"I suspect that, as with the BBC, that is because there is no pressure from the advertisers to create ever more episodes until the content becomes homeopathic. Yes M*A*S*H, I'm looking at you" probably why we still praise the quickly canceled "firefly" . if they had killed off &...

I can't remember the series. It was about 1958. I remember those other series including Lost In Space and Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea. There are some episodes on Youtube. They seemed great at the time but crude and dated now. I always thought Space Patrol was silly. Star Trek wasn't much later ...

I've got this t-shirt from my sister for Christmas (name of my cat is Loki) https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?id=2618&mode=view - Real men cuddle with cats - And this is the cat to the t-shirt: Loki_smiling.jpeg https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=2753 mnem ...

The Strand is in the West End; that would have been deserted since most things would have been shut by law on a Sunday, except newspaper shops and corner shops. In some ways I miss Sunday being special, but not in others. There are some counties in New Jersey that still have Sunday "Blue Laws&...

mnem
that is all.

That unit is old enough to collect a pension. Those caps are all living on borrowed time.

mnem
https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/an/pdf/sf_8620.pdf

As for the larger issue surrounding the whole shitty mess... yeah, it's a shitty mess. As has been mentioned; "volunteer" shitty mess. :roll: It sucks, but I think this is a "pick your battles" scenario. You're probably best off treating it as a life lesson about working with dum...

In this case it'll be a bit drawn-out, I'd wager. My experience with 3DP suggests this process: 1: Get parts to a nerd-friend who 3DPs. Bring lots of favorite food/alcohol. 2: Brainstorm a design in Frustion3D; print it. 3: Get close; redesign, print again. 4: repeat step 3 n times, where n = point ...

*looks again*

Yeah, it does appear that even on these those traces might be Siamesed into a single trace... I didn't see that at first. A trap for new players, yo.

mnem
"Itz always somethin'." ~Rosanne Rosannadanna

Yeah, the Summer Swapmeet at VRCMCT is April 12th... I should be able to make that one. Time to pick some sacrifices and make a bit of room...

mnem
*tzzzzzzzt.*

I believe the connectors if not the supply voltages and the pinning (most certainly not!) are the same as for the TM500 series modular instruments. For those, a so-called JAMMA extender cable reportedly can be used, once a bridge in the PCB joining a couple of adjacent pins has been removed. I've g...

Just enough hollow-state to light your arse up. I approve!

mnem
*kicks Amazon delivery in the nards on GP*

Mmmhmmmmmm... somebody's got some big BOM in their near future...

mnem
ehh... it's only money...

That is quite a bit more complete "kit" than I was expecting. Tho I suspect still a considerable BOM of remainder parts... I get the feeling somebody wants to be able to characterize choobs for U-47 mic preamplifiers and the like... :ugeek: More power tooya, my friend. mnem https://teanony...

A visit from @bd139: the gift that keeps on giving.

mnem
we can't take you any-fucking-place...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=2694 Your mention of the Quangsheng brand prompted me to actually do a little Gurrgling on them, something I've been "gonna do" for a while now. Looks like these little Chinesium nipple-warmers have advanced quite a bit since I...

"Broken" and "Expensive". Everything was going fine until someone asked to borrow my clamp meter and then destroyed it. I won't be lending my tools out anymore after this. (SNIP) ...everything was fine until this guy decided to spray out the whole equipment cabinet with some aer...

These are excellent sources and resources. Still, tape is only interesting as a historical medium, and all possible effort should be directed towards transferring their content to ones and zeros and storing those on hard drives. I find the "very mechanical" nature of these devices... and ...

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Hmmmm... 240x240 thermal res @25Hz... for ~$100. Seems a wee bit too good to be true. What am I missing?

mnem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a3cbfZU730 This was a response to a discussion in the Discord; I realized after I posted it that it is in fact a valuable collection of resources for anyone wanting to tune up a cassette deck after doing repairs and realizing they needed to adjust/verify transport s...

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=2694 Your mention of the Quangsheng brand prompted me to actually do a little Gurrgling on them, something I've been "gonna do" for a while now. Looks like these little Chinesium nipple-warmers have advanced quite a bit since I...

It's the same concept as having a Aneng 800 x in your glovebox or under the bench as a sacrificial element for "when you're gonna do somethin' stoopit" . Saves risking a decent piece of TE... plus when you do nuke it, you get the fun of trying to figure it out before you give up and smash ...