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- Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:53 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Wed Feb 05, 2025 5:26 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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 ...
- Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:15 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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 ...
- Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:25 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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... ...
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:58 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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.
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:19 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 1:59 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:18 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Sun Dec 01, 2024 1:13 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1361
Re: Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New
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...
- Sun Nov 17, 2024 4:14 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
- Replies: 851
- Views: 239556
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
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...
- Wed Nov 13, 2024 5:37 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Tue Nov 12, 2024 3:52 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
- Replies: 851
- Views: 239556
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
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...
- Tue Nov 12, 2024 3:18 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:40 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
[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...
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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 ...
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:14 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
- Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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 ...
- Sat Aug 31, 2024 5:44 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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,...
- Sat Aug 31, 2024 1:26 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: UNI-T UT58C DMM Repair.
- Replies: 4
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Re: UNI-T UT58C DMM Repair.
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...
- Fri Aug 30, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Thu Aug 29, 2024 5:04 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Wed Aug 28, 2024 2:59 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Wed Aug 28, 2024 2:20 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Interesting findings on the internet
- Replies: 851
- Views: 239556
Re: Interesting findings on the internet
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...
- Mon Aug 12, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
- Replies: 3401
- Views: 1000087
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
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...
- Fri Aug 09, 2024 3:35 am
- Forum: Test Equipment
- Topic: Tektronix 475
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12337
Re: Tektronix 475
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...