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by vk6zgo
Wed Feb 05, 2025 6:53 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

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...
by vk6zgo
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 ...
by vk6zgo
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:15 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

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 ...
by vk6zgo
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... ...
by vk6zgo
Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:58 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

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.
by vk6zgo
Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:19 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

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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
Wed Nov 13, 2024 5:37 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

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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
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 ...
by vk6zgo
Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:14 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

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!
by vk6zgo
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 ...
by vk6zgo
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,...
by vk6zgo
Sat Aug 31, 2024 1:26 am
Forum: Test Equipment
Topic: UNI-T UT58C DMM Repair.
Replies: 4
Views: 4107

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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
Thu Aug 29, 2024 5:04 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

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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
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...
by vk6zgo
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...