Test Equipment Anonymous

https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=2251 mnem dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and maybe they'll get back to you. Surprisingly, Ghost (my former feral street cat) apparently never got the memo about belly rubs - she rolls over and loves them. https://phot...

Sizzle, burn! Already 81 here according to my outside thermometer. I much preferred the mid seventies we were getting last week.

Ok so this is now repaired and not drifting. As suspected the voltage amplifier opamp was wonky. It was replaced with a TI UA741CP which is just what I happened to have lying around. I'll calibrate it another day but it's delivering the rated current properly now anyway The culprit... IMG_0851.jpeg...

Just got an HP E3610A power supply from eBay for a respectable price. Initially looks good. ... Oh now hang on a minute, no it doesn't. There's a modification, clearly an insane one. There is what looks like a series 1n4148 with the negative lead ... Some people! I will have to very carefully check...

Nice collection of Heathkits there. Well did you get anything? A few items did follow me home... and yes, there was a HeathPuppy in the litter. :lol: mnem https://teanonymous.com/f1/download/file.php?mode=view&id=2247 I see you got one of those butt-ugly 'shuttlecraft' Flukes, too. Gonna paint ...

as I scrolled thru the pics my first thought was "thank God I was not there......cause i'm probably the only guy weird enough to buy an HP85" turns out that is not true. what the hell is wrong with you? (seriously.....tell me....... because we apparently suffer from the same condition) If...

Actually, that was a real live Edison cylinder dictation machine - the horn at the end of the long tube was for speaking into (probably closer to shouting into); it then recorded onto a wax cylinder. Basically the early memo machine for a secretary to type letters from. The cylinders could be reused...

Got an HP 5246L from the wallet sucking site. 'Free' shipping. The guy literally put a single layer of bubble wrap around it, then folded corrugated cardboard tightly around the instrument. :roll: From this angle, you can clearly see that it's wider at the back of the pic than the front - the sides ...

Nice, Mike! $50 is a steal. Love that TM500/5000 stuff.

-Pat

As one who’s been driving for years now and got my license immediately at sixteen, it’s easy to say this, but getting licensed should be much more difficult than it is. As BD mentions above, pretty much if you show up upright and ambulatory it seems you’re good to go here in the US. I think it’s a b...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 10:55 pm

bd139 wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 8:43 pm

I will not go out with anyone who has a dog. All dogs are grade A retards. I can't cope with one of those in my life.

Ditto, ditto, and ditto. Especially the ones with the little yap dogs that they carry around like a baby.

AKA 'Barking Cats'.

-Pat

I remember the answer given to the question "what do I need to beat a Mustang?" asked in the late 90s on the Miata mailing list. The reply? "A corner!"

Good to see you at least poke your head up. Fingers crossed that you get a bit of a break to decompress and enjoy yourself a bit. I suppose that feast beats famine where work is involved, but neither can be a permanent condition!

-Pat

"Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere." - Colin Chapman

An older video from the slowmo guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705OzYq7cXU How elegant she's jumping on top of the fence! Very beautiful! It always amazes me how perfectly in tune with themselves they are - they’ll jump juuuuust hard enough to get where they want to go, but no harder. My old ...

The Three Amigos turned NINE today :shock: :shock: :shock: https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/1508-08-New-critters/i-78SPkGq/0/CTLSNwSCJQSTS68KV4zhrzF27XnCjtnv9fqQq4zZh/X2/IMG_0093-X2.jpg L-R Pixel, Gilmore and Beaker https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/1508-08-New-critters/i-Dt5FcLK/0/t5h7v68hR87tHB...

Just so. Arsine AsF 3 being another. My father was quite happy to bring home some conc HCl and iron sulphide in his coat pocket, and for me to stink out the kitchen by mixing them. He said he was frightened by HF, and wouldn't go near it, even at work. The "things I wouldn't work with" su...

Definitely not. There was a lot of hydrofluoric acid used at National Semi and the treatment just for being exposed to it was miserable - the affected area was to be coated in cold calcium gluconate for I forget how long, and if you were exposed badly enough that it got near bone you’d need to go fo...

I'm with Mike in this - I prefer an odd number of pedals (unless it's a flying machine, then they should be in multiples of two), and knobs & levers to control things. 'Soft' controls and touch screens have no place in a vehicle (certainly not beyond the radio, where I'll grudgingly accept them ...

Nixie and Faraday love the one I have here, and believe it or not began using it entirely on their own. Faraday will jump up towards the one o'clock part where it's curving back overhead and wrap his front paws around the rim to really get it going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4h-LaUgCc The 'O...

Crummy iPhone photo of my friend Stacey's cat Cocoa Bean - she has the most stunningly beautiful sapphire blue eyes: https://photos.smugmug.com/Animals/2102-21-Kittehs/i-B8vbF6x/0/DHvh8NnkQ3MTNbDHTJnFCVK2m4n74hnFZqdXfHvmb/X2/2023071021494925-6727920285383670149--X2.jpg Some one of these years I need...

When they first started, Discovery and The History Channel were both excellent. Somewhere along the line they devolved into that ‘hunting for the ghost of ancient Bigfoot's buried treasure' nonsense. Can’t stand it - they stretch fifteen minutes of questionable dreck into an hour including commercia...