Test Equipment Anonymous

If f the burger has flavour in the first place. But I tend to agree. I certainly wouldn't put good cheese in a burger or toastie, since I like a good cheese's flavour and (especially) texture. The MacDonalds stuff had neither, and I couldn't detect any redeeming virtue. In the same way that much ic...

We can't throw stones in that regard :( The current fashion is to blame "ultraprocessed foods", which are as well defined and understood as Dark Energy and Dark Matter and Luminiferous Æther. It's actually quite simple. Ultraprocessed foods, too many carbs, too much sugar. Result: A natio...

Regard him as an engineer given the instruction of developing an edible substance with certain properties conforming to a loose description of cheese. This is the low cost, high performance version of cheese, value engineered, and with certain properties desirable to McDonalds being optimised. A co...

Not sure how the car lets you flatten the 12V battery when there is charge in the traction battery. Robert. The HV traction battery will charge the 12v battery but that is normally only when the car is in use, or the "ignition" is switched on. So my guess would be that the ignition was OF...

ISTR having an HP branded metal bottles of carbon tet for cleaning tape heads. That would have been late 80s. As I recall it was little plastic bottles (50 ml) of some freon - a chlorofluorocarbon. We were asked to surrender them in the name of saving the planet, but I hung onto mine. It's long bee...

Went to the Thorpe Camp Radio Rally today. Mostly to sell. Not much TE sold and I didn't but any. I did have one first related to an earlier discussion on here: I "jump-started" an EV. Not a Tesla, a Hyundai. Owned by the seller next to me. Somehow over 4-5 hours they discharged the 12V l...

This store has something for everyone, which it was here in the UK. There used to be a general store like that in my village; not electronics, just hardware and anything else that caught the brothers' eyes. Simple example: I wanted a chuck key for a not-very-old Black and Decker drill, so I went to...

This store has something for everyone, which it was here in the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2GwxPQzN04

Here is their website https://epohouston.com/

There's more, they also have their own YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/@electronicpartsoutlet/videos

Why not? There are such things as mischevious wills, which might involve people squabbling for ever over nothing much, or involve unpleasant penances to get the prize. It could be a puzzle they have to solve. It was a thing in the Victorian age. Actually, leaving a mischevious will could be a fun w...

The nearest I saw to that was a 3-position knob on the dashboard, left-off-right. The knob stayed in one place; it didn't move in 1ft radius circles when you changed direction! It is enlightening to watch old 1960s TV programmes, to see just how empty the roads were back then. The Austin A30 & ...

Ok one for the data hoarders here. I just inherited 24TB (!) of disks full of shit. This is going to be a miserable slog to get through as there is family stuff in there :cry: Please don't leave this shit for other people when you drop dead! The problem there is that you don't always get a warning ...

I certainly don't want any car where driving controls are on a touchscreen, e.g. heating and ventilation. Nor any which have (worse require/presume) voice control. To rub salt into it as well, Tesla latest model has IRCC also removed the column stalks so the D-N-R selector is a up and down swiping ...

There are plenty of issues with Tesla's and most pure EV's. Tesla's for instance use push buttons for door release from inside the car, battery dies for whatever reason, and you're inside the car, you are automatically going to reach for the push button in order to get out, nan nah not happening. Yo...

That's great news. Make sure you send a copy to the relevant sites so other people don't have to suffer. It does make me wonder who the hell scanned the original ones and if they actually gave a shit about what they were doing... Sadly, all too often that is the quality of schematics these days. I ...

All this debate about SSDs v HDDs and their lifespans etc is all interesting, but I however have to disagree slightly for as I said, my desktop PC is a 2011 vintage, running a AMD FX8350 CPU @4Ghz. It has had Windows XP, then Win 7 and now Win 10 64bit OSs on it and throughout and for the last 8 or ...

Oh, I'd shoot myself if I had to wait on spinning rust on any of my DOSboxes. Put a SSD in there ASAP, they're so cheap now; even a SATA one will be a completely new machine. mnem Spinning rust is for tertiary archive, if at all... It already has 500GB SSD with the OS on it and all the spinning pil...

I spent many a day in Slough. The reputation is both earned and accurate. It was a day out when Uxbridge became too much. And incidentally where one of our data centres was until recently. Slough is the pits, I used to spend loads of time with customers there and I just couldn't get away quick enou...

I don't think you need that fast a processor. This is absolutely the bottom end Mac mini which I bought off a colleague for a respectable £250. The monitor cost a hell of a lot more than that... What you need is a decent PDF rendering engine, graphics stack and OS, which is why I don't use Windows ...

Nice job, that really came out nice in the end, miles away from where it was when you got it.

To be fair I'm into old calculators. You're in to ancient calculators :lol: Not as ancient as you think... My school had two of them, IIRC. We were taught to use them. They are gloriously tactile, like ASR33s. But we used slide rules in lessons and exams. Hence pi 2 =g=10. My father had an electric...

Wow, I'm afraid that the price of that mattress in John Lewis store just reflects what the top people in the UK are willing to pay out for things. Which in truth also reflects the wide disparity of peoples incomes and that there is a growth of those earning higher incomes, possibly as a result of th...

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:08 am WANT!!

-Pat

I came across this last year on a car channel where it was used to clean rust off a car chassis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5rWy-u994k

Came across this picture in another group.

They took the transmitter as well, jeez. Presumably they must have known exactly what they were doing to avoid getting burnt by the RF? This must have taken some considerable time to carry out the disassembly of the tower and its removal, so how come nobody hadn't noticed the station was off the air...

DMCA is not applicable to the UK. We have another act that covers it but I can't remember what it's called. And we're a tiny island and there is no automated filing so no one gives a crap here :) Have you guys tried YMCA instead? :D OK, I give up, what is YMCA, I take it the YMCA that you mention i...