Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread

[bd139]

Since Saturday I am now owner of a Tek 575 in good condition accompanied with a 175. Haven't tested it yet. Was a trip to Heidelberg over the weekend. And as a by-catch: I got CoViD

Urgh. Hope you recover soon!

[Cubdriver]

Since Saturday I am now owner of a Tek 575 in good condition accompanied with a 175. Haven't tested it yet. Was a trip to Heidelberg over the weekend. And as a by-catch: I got CoViD

Great score on the Tek, not so much on the Coof. Hope it’s a very mild case.

-Pat

[Zenith]

Since Saturday I am now owner of a Tek 575 in good condition accompanied with a 175. Haven't tested it yet. Was a trip to Heidelberg over the weekend. And as a by-catch: I got CoViD

So you made a trip to Heidelberg to get a hernia and came back with the added delight of Covid. Way to go!.

The Tek 575 is a nice catch.

[dl6lr]

Thanks for all the wishes... I caught a cold and my wife and me we were asking ourselfs about last being ill and joking around. Then she gave me a test and sure it showed two lines...

Of course photos are required, first the 575. I just repaired the 2x pushbutton which had bad contact (NC) and was jumpered by a previous owner. The fan is silent but the dust filter is missing one of the cap nuts (imperial units of course). One of the previous owners polished the front too much and rubbed off some of the engraved letters, so I have to fill the engraved parts with paint again ("Gravur mit Farbe auslegen", dont know how to translate that).

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The 175 is missing quite some nuts and bolts around its fan, dust filter is missing and the fan turns a bit sticky, so first have to repair it.

[Zenith]

Thanks for all the wishes... I caught a cold and my wife and me we were asking ourselfs about last being ill and joking around. Then she gave me a test and sure it showed two lines...

Let's get this straight. You have a wife who tolerates you harbouring a Tek 575 and you joke around with her. You are indeed blessed.

[dl6lr]

Let's get this straight. You have a wife who tolerates you harbouring a Tek 575 and you joke around with her. You are indeed blessed.

She was with me in Heidelberg and she even grabbed one of the handles of the 175 to get it into the car
She is a wonderful wife and we are now married 31 years!

[Zenith]

Let's get this straight. You have a wife who tolerates you harbouring a Tek 575 and you joke around with her. You are indeed blessed.

She was with me in Heidelberg and she even grabbed one of the handles of the 175 to get it into the car
She is a wonderful wife and we are now married 31 years!

I like happy life affirming accounts.

[mnementh]

Thanks for all the wishes... I caught a cold and my wife and me we were asking ourselfs about last being ill and joking around. Then she gave me a test and sure it showed two lines...

Of course photos are required, first the 575. I just repaired the 2x pushbutton which had bad contact (NC) and was jumpered by a previous owner. The fan is silent but the dust filter is missing one of the cap nuts (imperial units of course). One of the previous owners polished the front too much and rubbed off some of the engraved letters, so I have to fill the engraved parts with paint again ("Gravur mit Farbe auslegen", dont know how to translate that).

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The 175 is missing quite some nuts and bolts around its fan, dust filter is missing and the fan turns a bit sticky, so first have to repair it.

That is some primo enheavyment there, sir. Congratulations!

Also "boo, hiss!" to the coof. As others have said, hope it's a mild one and no further complications.

mnem

[nixiefreqq]

Let's get this straight. You have a wife who tolerates you harbouring a Tek 575 and you joke around with her. You are indeed blessed.

She was with me in Heidelberg and she even grabbed one of the handles of the 175 to get it into the car
She is a wonderful wife and we are now married 31 years!

Heidelberg? Heidelberg? wasn't this picture taken in Heidelberg about 20 years ago?

the fat bastard staring at the camera is definitely the nixiefreqq........but was it Heidelberg?


edit - oh yeah......at 0:35 that's the spot all right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAp3Cnytto8

the trees are bigger now....but that's the spot.

[tggzzz]

Heidelberg? Heidelberg? wasn't this picture taken in Heidelberg about 20 years ago?

The concept that shocked me a couple of years ago is that 2050 is closer than 1990.

Next year 2050 will be closer than 2000.

[Zenith]

Cleopatra lived closer to the present than to the time the pyramids were built.

[tggzzz]

Cleopatra lived closer to the present than to the time the pyramids were built.

True, but that's less ..... personal.

[Zenith]

I don't recoil from being impersonal.

[Cubdriver]

I was beginning to think this would never arrive - spotted and instantly ordered it on March 6th from our favorite wallet depletion site. It was shipped that very day from Boston via USPS. Made it to Shrewsbury, MA the next day, then inexplicably went to Chicago. On Saturday the 9th it was processed through a USPS facility in Bedford Park, IL, then showed "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late" for each day from Sunday until that Wednesday (the 10~13th). Then the updates just...

...stopped.

Around about the 23rd I printed out its itinerary (along with that of a manual that had also fallen into a black hole in its journey up from NJ) and went to visit the post office to ask if they could figure out what had happened to it/them. The clerk went in back and did some searching, then came back and said something must have happened that caused the labels to be unreadable or the like, and to be patient; they were probably being hand processed and would eventually arrive. I walked out figuring "Yeah, they're both gone..."

Kept tracking both, hoping against hope (the manual was for the hen's tooth 3735A counter; I'd been searching for one literally since getting the counter YEARS ago and had paid $41 for it because they simply don't exist), and the manual which had departed Rumson, NJ on the 13th, been "In Transit to Next Facility" as the only update on the 17th suddenly came to light and arrived at the USPS 'regional origin facility' in Jersey City on the 26th, departing there at 2:46 pm. It arrived in my mailbox (thankfully) on the 27th around 11:00 am. So it took 13 days to travel ~45 road miles, then just over 20 hours to go ~160 miles up to Springfield MA, be sorted, then travel another 66 back to Watertown, CT for final sort and delivery. Crazy how they manage to combine slow as molasses in January with FedEx Overnight fast for the same package.

Anywho - that gave me faint hope that the other package that was incommunicado since the 13th might eventually appear, too, and to my surprise it resurfaced on the 29th to again be processed through Bedford Park and head on to Chicago, after which it departed Chi Town on the 30th and arrived in Springfield, MA on the 31st. It left Springfield this morning at 3:50 am, made its way to Waterbury (the city next door) then on to Watertown and into my mailbox at about twenty of two in the afternoon. It took a day shy of four weeks to make it from Boston to me. Gotta love the postal system!

Now after my epic tale, I happily present the never-before-seen (at least not by me) Tektronix Christmas Mug:




Despite searching for the manual for years, I think I would have been more pissed if the mug had gone missing. Thankfully both ultimately arrived. Oh, and both packages had their original, perfectly legible, Pitney Bowes printed address labels, complete with tracking number, my full address including ZIP+4 and an assortment of bar codes.

-Pat

[tggzzz]

"All's well that ends well"

[Zenith]

Delivery services in the UK aren't as good as they were a few years back, and there's talk of Royal Mail delivering on only three days a week, but I've never heard of a saga like yours.

At least you got the items eventually and the mug wasn't broken.

[MED6753]

I was beginning to think this would never arrive - spotted and instantly ordered it on March 6th from our favorite wallet depletion site. It was shipped that very day from Boston via USPS. Made it to Shrewsbury, MA the next day, then inexplicably went to Chicago. On Saturday the 9th it was processed through a USPS facility in Bedford Park, IL, then showed "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late" for each day from Sunday until that Wednesday (the 10~13th). Then the updates just...

...stopped.

Around about the 23rd I printed out its itinerary (along with that of a manual that had also fallen into a black hole in its journey up from NJ) and went to visit the post office to ask if they could figure out what had happened to it/them. The clerk went in back and did some searching, then came back and said something must have happened that caused the labels to be unreadable or the like, and to be patient; they were probably being hand processed and would eventually arrive. I walked out figuring "Yeah, they're both gone..."

Kept tracking both, hoping against hope (the manual was for the hen's tooth 3735A counter; I'd been searching for one literally since getting the counter YEARS ago and had paid $41 for it because they simply don't exist), and the manual which had departed Rumson, NJ on the 13th, been "In Transit to Next Facility" as the only update on the 17th suddenly came to light and arrived at the USPS 'regional origin facility' in Jersey City on the 26th, departing there at 2:46 pm. It arrived in my mailbox (thankfully) on the 27th around 11:00 am. So it took 13 days to travel ~45 road miles, then just over 20 hours to go ~160 miles up to Springfield MA, be sorted, then travel another 66 back to Watertown, CT for final sort and delivery. Crazy how they manage to combine slow as molasses in January with FedEx Overnight fast for the same package.

Anywho - that gave me faint hope that the other package that was incommunicado since the 13th might eventually appear, too, and to my surprise it resurfaced on the 29th to again be processed through Bedford Park and head on to Chicago, after which it departed Chi Town on the 30th and arrived in Springfield, MA on the 31st. It left Springfield this morning at 3:50 am, made its way to Waterbury (the city next door) then on to Watertown and into my mailbox at about twenty of two in the afternoon. It took a day shy of four weeks to make it from Boston to me. Gotta love the postal system!

Now after my epic tale, I happily present the never-before-seen (at least not by me) Tektronix Christmas Mug:


Despite searching for the manual for years, I think I would have been more pissed if the mug had gone missing. Thankfully both ultimately arrived. Oh, and both packages had their original, perfectly legible, Pitney Bowes printed address labels, complete with tracking number, my full address including ZIP+4 and an assortment of bar codes.

-Pat

Typical USPS fuck ups.

[MED6753]

April. Grass turning green, trees budding, birds singing. And then this. Not unheard of but unusual. Will probably melt by the end of the day. Next week temps will be Spring-like.



Time flies. Been here a year already. "Offically" moved in the 7th.

[Zenith]

Spring can be unpredictable. It's wet and windy here, but there's the odd day when it's sunny and nice.

What's that building in the background that looks like a sawn off lighthouse?

[MED6753]

What's that building in the background that looks like a sawn off lighthouse?

It's in the foreground. It's a lighthouse styled bird feeder.

[Zenith]

What's that building in the background that looks like a sawn off lighthouse?

It's in the foreground. It's a lighthouse styled bird feeder.

Ah yes. I thought it was a building with its base hidden by the trees, but looking more closely I can see that isn't so. I must get some new specs.

[mansaxel]

What's that building in the background that looks like a sawn off lighthouse?

It's the Moulin Noir, a lesser-known upstate NY landmark most remembered for being haunted by the unresting ghosts of slain tube rapists.

[MED6753]

A whole lot of hoopla over not much. Didn't feel it here, was traveling in the car at the time. No damage or anything rattled around here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us- ... n=BBCS_BBC

[Zenith]

Every few years we have an earthquake in the UK, about magnitude 5 or just less. The one I remember was the 2002 Dudley earthquake which was 4.7 and about 70 miles away. I was nodding off to sleep and there was a definite shock. At the epicentre there were some chimneys toppled and cracks in walls. I don't believe there were injuries or collapsed buildings.

[Cerebus]

Every few years we have an earthquake in the UK, about magnitude 5 or just less. The one I remember was the 2002 Dudley earthquake which was 4.7 and about 70 miles away. I was nodding off to sleep and there was a definite shock. At the epicentre there were some chimneys toppled and cracks in walls. I don't believe there were injuries or collapsed buildings.

Every few days we have an earthquake in the UK. In the last 60 days there have been 34 earthquakes, ranging in magnitude from 0.1 to 3.2. Source: http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthq ... vents.html We have earthquakes all the time, it's just that we have few big ones.