Test Equipment Anonymous

Back in 1971, I remember the Aussies, Yanks, Kiwis & Canucks getting together to "whinge" about the poor quality of "bought" food in England. Actually, the "Transport Caffs" were usually a bit more edible than the more pretentious "takeaways". There was on...

--- No, that was me! vk6zgo ! I remember in 1971 driving up from Southampton one Sunday, because I wanted to buy some KFC. That's just weird, nobody in their right mind wants Kentucky Fries Mouse. Interestingly, when they first appeared in Oz, "The Colonel" as we called it back then in Pe...

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Piccadilly-by-Night-London-1960-by-Elmar-Ludwig.jpg Piccadilly by Night London 1960 by Elmar Ludwig Piccadilly by Night? According to Guinness Time there, the picture was taken at 5:18 PM! Night? Just how early was bedtime back then? It is already get...

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 du...

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...

New Revox B77 are being made but they're listed at just under 16,000 Euro dollars. Edited to add: From what I've seen, they're only making a Revox B77 version of the machine - no Studer PR99 counterpart. I'm not sure how much or if there was a gap between Quantegy bailing out, RMGI starting up and ...

There's my thread at The Other Plaice, https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/fluke-8125a-military-dmm-teardown/ The other place can fuck right off! I've made it impossible for me to recover my account again now. I might have "blotted my copybook" too, by too enthusiastically "thanki...

Acolytes doesn't feel dirty enough. You ought to be careful... Someone Over There has written "I don't understand why bd139 is some kind of cult character to some,..." :shock: :lol: I do. I've got all his merch including the very collectible bd139 Thug Life tee shirt. All hail the mighty ...

Went to store for soda for the kids... everybody is there stocking up on everything from milk to bread to yes, dozens of rolls of TP. Lines literally 3/4 of the store deep. Why? 80-160mm of snow forecast over the next 2 days. :roll: Panic buying is a strange mentality. You'd think folks would keep ...

On the Fluke 80xx handhelds with side "key" switches I've never had or heard any complaints. For a manual ranging meter a button per range is great. You can go straight to the range you want. The side keys allow single handed selection of function and range. Unless you have tiny hands... ...

MED6753 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:45 am Speaking of which.....do the new pound notes still have images of Lizzie or changed to dumbo ears? And Canadian dollars too? What about OZ notes?

I think Oz one & two dollar coins have gone over to Charlie's picture, but coins being so durable, there will be plenty with Bess on them for years.

Haven't heard that, but Cockney rhyming slang continually mutates. If it is that, then you would only ever say "ginger"; the "beer" must be omitted. Hence "I'm going up the apples to have a butchers to see if there is a whistle" would mean "I'm going up the stairs...

took me 10 minutes to figure out that you guys like to rhyme things. ginger beer apparently equals engineer? what's next....videos of morris dancing? guess that's what happens when you are isolated on a little island. too bad the roman empire pulled out and left you to alone to develop your strange...

Yeah I think the 8060A was aimed more at electronics guys, the rubber baby buggy bumper brigade are more a sparky thing. @Robert, identifying the connector on this seems the sort of thing you excel at: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHZahEGn_8&lc=UgxrhKRMEO2H3zxcjyF4AaABAg.ADIDWCryxW...

In my last pre-retirement job, in the workshop, we had an IFR spectrum analyser which, although it had a second handbook about how you could send commands to it remotely, had no information on how to make screenshots, other than to the inbuilt floppy. Ok, sez I, "easy peasy", ---- just fil...

Maybe the Holy Roller robot builder has a following because everything else on the forum has become dead boring! They seem to be determined to remove any vestige of the old EEVBlog, with a lot of political posts of the favoured kind these days, but disagree & you are firmly told "no politic...

That reminds me of a neighbour we had once. "Humberman" he was known as. Had a large collection of Humbers parked literally everywhere he could squeeze them. They were all broken, noisy and turned into smoke screens instantly. Reminds me in turn of another mate who had a backyard chock fu...

I was just over on "the other place"----No, not the Australian Senate Chamber, but EEVBlog. In their "Projects" section, there is a seriously weird guy called "artbyrobot" , who purports to be building a humanoid robot. His methods are very unlikely to be successful, he...

An old mate of mine back in the day had a single cylinder "Southern Cross" stationary engine in his back yard. He delighted in firing it up at night, then as if the loud "PUTT!! FNN, FNN, FNN" sound wasn't enough, he would fiddle with the carby to make it backfire. With the 2 inc...

[quote=Zenith post_id=9321 time=1728342008 user_id=66] By that token, my HP 427A has already been converted to mains operation by the two banana sockets. My TF2700 has a normal modern low voltage socket fitted. I'm sure I powered it from a bench PSU. PP9s are about £7.50. They appear to have just be...

Fascinating. The Polyskop was clearly a remarkable piece of equipment back in the day. However, on balance, it's far too big and heavy and I'm glad I didn't buy it. To be honest I wasn't even slightly tempted. Yes, it is the sort of thing that was a good investment for a corporate body back in the ...

bd139 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 5:23 pm The bacon rolls are always cold or damp at those as well.

Not like the delicious & messy beef rolls at Perth Hamfest.
To think that people believe that I go there to look at & possibly buy TE & ham crap, & can't discern my true motive!

I did see a Polyskop shown doing something not very impressive, at the back of one of the stalls for £50. It looked very big and heavy. I'd guess it was some description of spectrum analyser. I'd heard of the name as one of the bits of kit used for setting up the filters in RA17s although that one ...

Roos and Emus are small beer. Cassowaries, numerous deadly snakes, Funnel Web spiders, gympie-gympie trees and that's just on land. In the water there are Salt Water crocodiles, Great White sharks, Box Jellyfish, Blue Ringed octopuses, sea snakes even more venomous than their land dwelling cousins,...

I really can't see the point of that PSU circuit. It seems to be referenced to a 1N4148 diode. However, the DMM's been in production for years, so I assume it's been satisfactory. There's a battery low indicator symbol on my UT58C but I can't see it on that schematic, which I believe is for the sli...