Test Equipment Anonymous

seems like my 651a started out as 75 ohms and was changed to 50 (by swapping one resistor?)

HEY BRITS! have been watching old Dr Who episodes on the Roku "vintage doctor" channel and have developed a craving for "jelly babies". there is a specialty sweet store in downtown gettysburg that carries some foreign goods and might have them (swmbo goes there to buy something c...

OOOOOH!!!

got it now. the razor is not for removing fur.

I was actually converting stone to kilograms and lbs. 2 stone.....that's 28 lbs.....that would be a lot of fur.

the confusion was because......here in a civilized place we take cats to the vet to be "fixed".

What I've noticed is that there are parrot people, who are immensely enthusiastic about them, and owning one seems to be more a way of life than owning a pet. Parrots also have particular views about people. Some don't like boys, some don't like girls, and some take an immense dislike to certain pe...

My daughter's bedroom has been repurposed :) Still not big enough :( :lol: Time to add an extension or two? https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F4b%2F6e%2F92%2F4b6e92a90b3f831b3987a9941a201712.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=810596a0623b47699a514b8b78b432...

"When Marty the robot encountered a single grape on the floor of a grocery store produce department, it immediately stopped and identified the item as a potential hazard. Marty's response is a key part of its function as an autonomous safety robot. Here is what happened: Hazard Detection: Marty...

our local "giant" supermarket has "Marty". an annoying waste of tech that feckin' follows me around from aisle to aisle. one of these days i'm gonna' go shopping with some tools and disassemble the rolling bastard. https://www.tiktok.com/@giantfoodstores/video/7527338818605747511

another heads up for the agilent 54622d fan boys. (i'm lookin' at you dragon) those 6 damn soft buttons under the crt have resisted all my bodges. tried silver leaf from the hobby store over the carbon buttons and it lasted a couple of days. tried cleaning the buttons with ipa and it lasted a week o...

those backboards have water in the base? never knew that. around here they mostly pile concrete blocks to hold them in place. some cranky old neighbors bitch when they see one go up......but it makes me smile to hear the neighbor kids outside dribbling and shooting. you on the other hand should stay...

just a heads up for agilent 5462x fan boys. powered up my 54622d this morning and it was acting weird. when looking at the probe compensation output it showed a weird overshoot and when in "quick measurement" mode the peak to peak voltage shown was 2x or 4x what would have been indicated b...

Gee, when I got Harley snipped there was no cone and no pain meds. The vet said just to keep an eye on him and it's OK if he wants to lick himself in that area. When I got him home he was a bit wobbly in the legs and believe it or not he wanted to eat. So I fed him and later he zonked out. Next day...

sorry....forgot that according to the pictures in magazines, high tech electronic fabrication these days is done only by gray haired grannies or tiny Asian girls peering into microscopes.

my bad. carry on with your manly activities.

somehow I always expect you guys to show off your hybrid wafer and die wire bonding setups.

instead we see engine lathes and welders.

stone knives and bearskins.

but if you really want to set her off .....call camilla the new "queen" and stand back because she starts winding up like a gas turbine about to take off. Have you tried her with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and his delightful semi-ex Fergie? You could spice the mix by pointing out that he...

hmmmmm.......coins with a queen on them. just out of curiosity........have coins been issued yet with an image of the king? (not trying to stir up anything.......just wondering). Interesting question; can't think how it would stir anything up! King Charles notes have been in circulation since June ...

hmmmmm.......coins with a queen on them.

just out of curiosity........have coins been issued yet with an image of the king?

(not trying to stir up anything.......just wondering).

cowabunga!

last month they sent a kid out to install my new fiber network interface. he commented on the stacks of nixie counters in the basement and mentioned that he had seen one in the Oppenheimer movie. so we went down stairs and played with a couple. it was like watching Indiana Jones finding lost ancient...

what would compel you to replace it with that "thing"? I'd guess it caught his eye as a bit of junk to play with, as a diversion from the other things that crowd his hours. I get that. am guilty myself of spending months in search of a fault. then when restored to its original function yo...

didn't you used to be the proud owner of an hp 5334b? what would compel you to replace it with that "thing"? we know you prefer counters without fans........but geeeeeze. in future consult with a time nut before giving in to an impulse that leads to this kind of shameful situation. ps it i...

oh...got it now.....red-green

good post!

but you need to explain why volts are better in blue.

well ok. hp made a tdr.......but they couldn't have sold many. have you ever heard of anyone using one? it figures that cub would have one! the military bought boat loads of the 1502/3 units. when the local wire chief at ft swampy or camp nowhere would take us around to perform site surveys it was n...

tek 1502 with crt.

never saw one actually used in the rain. did see one used at Ft Benning to find an aerial splice case that had been replaced with a trash bag, and as a result was full of rainwater. (around 1986, right after outside plant maintenance was contracted out).

my fortress of solitude has been purged of all tek equipment. your dalliance with cora fendley will not tempt me to go looking for a 485.....(but damn, that is a nice looking scope). am looking forward to seeing pictures with blue traces. ps oh crap......my statement about the purge was disingenuous...