Test Equipment Anonymous

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...

It appears that his previous jobs for the company were in fairly "wild & wooly" places where such weaponry was a prudent addition to the apparel of a well dressed Engineer, & he had been given to believe by his workmates that Australia was a similarly scary place. LOL And it is, g...

Reminds me of a gal I worked with years ago who told me she was going to East Africa for a holiday. I asked if she'd arranged insurance. She said that had been done through Endsleigh which used to be the Students Union insurance company. I said I was thinking more in terms of a 600 nitro express an...

From what I know of the Soviet defence sector, the persistence of the things is because they had regulatory requirement to be able to be self-sufficient as a nation and they had a lot of stock left lying around. On top of that the cost was much lower than newer technology. Suitable meme cJpvQY1.jpe...

I always regard rebranding as a negative. Either there is something to forget, or the managers know something isn't right but don't know what to do. That leads to "something must be done, this is something, this must be done". I apologise if I've told y'all this anecdote before. I used to...

Do you want to lose your lunch? The Toronto Star publishes a good number of eyerollers but I almost spat my coffee when I saw this headline. Rod McQueen: ‘Call me Carly’: The moment I knew Hewlett-Packard’s CEO was special https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/call-me-carly-the-moment-i-knew-hew...

Another somewhat shady lot were Z&I Aero Services who sold valves. A lot were made in the USSR, or were remarked in some way. I have a Z&I box marked KTW61 with a valve inside marked KTW61, except it's obviously a 6K7G, which is a rough equivalent. I bought my Russian multimeter from them i...

They are getting on a bit though. I've had one since 2009. It's failed twice. The first time was a reservoir cap, I think the same one as failed in this. The second time was a transistor in the trigger circuit which is under no particular stress but decided to depart this life. I had a couple of sp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2mAa21PSs Australia's PM in the 1950s/early '60s was Sir Robert Menzies. Bob once tried to get people to pronounce his name in the traditional way, as "Mingas". This was regarded as pretentious by most Aussies, & he was promptly nicknamed "Ming t...

mnementh wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 9:25 pm

mnem
this is where I usually put something pithy.

You are always "taking the pith"!

Neither do tents; that's what sleeping bags are for. The van ought to be capable of keeping a howling gale out better than a tent. I remember camping with my daughter in a howling gale at a cliff top camping site in Morthoe. We chose a windy weekend, since it makes waves for body boarding :) At dus...

That's Johnny-come-lately fibreglass. Fibreglass is cheap and nasty temporary stuff - except when exquisitely shaped top ensure laminar flow, of course. I'd vote for the seminal example from 1978 : concrete cows. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Concrete_Cows%2C_Milton_Keynes.jpg...

A 1938 Aussie bodied straight 8 Buick "sloper" for me ---not high performance, but the "cool factor" is supremely high!

All kids should have a cat.
They teach that actions have consequences---piss off the kitty & you will get clawed!

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!" Even though the Mustang was a POS at handling the best car chase ever filmed was this. Count how many hub caps the Dodge Charge...

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bd139 wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 7:43 am On a lighter note I’m buggering off on holiday

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So, finally you fell in love with a pineapple?

They are hard to love when you are continually getting the rough end of them!

mansaxel wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 10:48 pm

Robert wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 9:47 am Standard light designs, often from component makers like Lucas were used on many different cars.

And there was Darkness.

Sealed beams were just about the only thing that Lucas couldn't stuff up!

The downside, compared to using it in two pedal mode, is that you lose control of your brake light as a deliberate signal and you don't know how enthusiastic the car is in putting the brake light on for what would be in a conventional setup mild engine braking. In some EVs it can result in your bra...

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...

That so called cheese is IMO more about the texture once its melted with the hot (if you're lucky) burger then is about taste. If you want real flavour slap a slice of mature cheddar in there and you won't go far wrong. ;) Mature cheddar is too strongly flavoured, and overpowers the flavour of the ...

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...

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 & ...

I might be able to tolerate the DNR (oops :) ) being on a touchscreen; I'd have to see it to determine. The indicator controls must be in a fixed position. Makes me want to go and have a Tesla test drive. I'd be in the passenger seat so I could see how "well" an experienced user can/can't...

Probably not a special charger but a reset of the battery mangement system. These systems use a small sensor on the battery connector to montor charge / discharge. If you charge the batttery by other means it upsets the controller causing all sorts of weird issues. Robrt. I only have the word of wh...