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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:29 am
by AVGresponding
bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:50 pm
Looks like I'm on the wagon again
Tek 2215A on the way. Needed something to poke around inside an HP41 printer I have which is not working properly...
OFF the wagon...
If I'd known you were looking for a scope, I'd have offered you my PM3218 (some assembly required)!
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:07 am
by bd139
tggzzz wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:05 pm
bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:50 pm
Looks like I'm on the wagon again
Tek 2215A on the way. Needed something to poke around inside an HP41 printer I have which is not working properly...
You'll need to keep it company with a 2225. Auction on Saturday, collect from Bedford. I got my HP8562B spec an from there
https://www.i-bidder.com/en-gb/auction- ... 25011cecd7
I'm not voluntarily going to Bedford
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:08 am
by bd139
AVGresponding wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:29 am
bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:50 pm
Looks like I'm on the wagon again
Tek 2215A on the way. Needed something to poke around inside an HP41 printer I have which is not working properly...
OFF the wagon...
If I'd known you were looking for a scope, I'd have offered you my PM3218 (some assembly required)!
I will pass if some assembly is required
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:19 pm
by tggzzz
bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:07 am
tggzzz wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:05 pm
bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:50 pm
Looks like I'm on the wagon again
Tek 2215A on the way. Needed something to poke around inside an HP41 printer I have which is not working properly...
You'll need to keep it company with a 2225. Auction on Saturday, collect from Bedford. I got my HP8562B spec an from there
https://www.i-bidder.com/en-gb/auction- ... 25011cecd7
I'm not voluntarily going to Bedford
Google maps indicates it is 50m-100m outside Bedford, right next to a good escape route (the A42). Bracknell is worse
Next excuse ?
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:32 pm
by bd139
tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:19 pm
bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:07 am
I'm not voluntarily going to Bedford
Google maps indicates it is 50m-100m outside Bedford, right next to a good escape route (the A42). Bracknell is worse
Next excuse ?
Lack of car
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:43 pm
by AVGresponding
bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:08 am
AVGresponding wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:29 am
bd139 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:50 pm
Looks like I'm on the wagon again
Tek 2215A on the way. Needed something to poke around inside an HP41 printer I have which is not working properly...
OFF the wagon...
If I'd known you were looking for a scope, I'd have offered you my PM3218 (some assembly required)!
I will pass if some assembly is required
Anyone would think you don't enjoy jigsaw bezels
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:22 pm
by tggzzz
bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:32 pm
tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:19 pm
bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:07 am
I'm not voluntarily going to Bedford
Google maps indicates it is 50m-100m outside Bedford, right next to a good escape route (the A42). Bracknell is worse
Next excuse ?
Lack of car
Typical townie
Use an electric bike; Bedford has a train station and there's a train every 15 mins to London.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:40 pm
by bd139
tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:22 pm
bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:32 pm
tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:19 pm
Google maps indicates it is 50m-100m outside Bedford, right next to a good escape route (the A42). Bracknell is worse
Next excuse ?
Lack of car
Typical townie
Use an electric bike; Bedford has a train station and there's a train every 15 mins to London.
I've got a very nice non electric bike. I just can't be arsed to go all the bloody way to Bedford.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:16 pm
by tggzzz
bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:40 pm
tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:22 pm
bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:32 pm
Lack of car
Typical townie
Use an electric bike; Bedford has a train station and there's a train every 15 mins to London.
I've got a very nice non electric bike. I just can't be arsed to go all the bloody way to Bedford.
It was worth flogging there from Brizzle for my HP, but it would have to be a very interesting scope to make me bother
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:44 pm
by Cerebus
bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:07 am
I'm not voluntarily going to Bedford
As the hub of all things Italian in the UK Bedford is not to be avoided.
My ex-wife, before she was even my girlfriend, did one of her work placements at Charles Wells brewery there. I went up for a weekend to go to a party she was throwing - I read Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes on the coach trip there and back.
The sort of local shop that would have been the local "Paki Shop" in my area was in Bedford run by Italians and had windows full of wonderful Italian hams, cheeses, dried pasta, fresh pasta, and many other wonderful goodies.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:19 am
by Zenith
I woke up to snow this morning. About an inch, so not a magnificent fall, and melting fast, but still snow. It wouldn't seem like we'd had a winter without a sight of snow, although you can easily have too much of a good thing, especially when it comes to snow.
It's quite late for snow here. There's something very sad about seeing daffodils suffering under the weight of it.
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:32 pm
by mnementh
Yeah, we finally thawed last week after those two blizzards; while I was working on the car I noted our daffydills just nosing up to the surface.
mnem
spring has sproinged!
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:49 pm
by tggzzz
Zenith wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:19 am
I woke up to snow this morning. About an inch, so not a magnificent fall, and melting fast, but still snow.
And yet 15 miles away there was none. Daughter mentioned reports of snow, but I didn't believe her until I saw an aerial photo in The Grauniad.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:58 pm
by bd139
Think I'm on the wagon again. On top of the 2215A, the 7150, the PM5705, I accidentally fell on the buy button this morning and another Fluke is arriving shortly
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:19 pm
by tggzzz
bd139 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:58 pm
Think I'm on the wagon again. On top of the 2215A, the 7150, the PM5705, I accidentally fell on the buy button this morning and another Fluke is arriving shortly
My problem is old calculators, including translating pdf images from German.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:21 pm
by tggzzz
bd139 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:58 pm
Think I'm on the wagon again. On top of the 2215A, the 7150, the PM5705, I accidentally fell on the buy button this morning and another Fluke is arriving shortly
My problem is old calculators.
Including translating pdf images from German.
And getting correct solvents/oils
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:31 pm
by bd139
To be fair I'm into
old calculators. You're in to
ancient calculators
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:46 pm
by tggzzz
bd139 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:31 pm
To be fair I'm into
old calculators. You're in to
ancient calculators
Not as ancient as you think...
My school had two of them, IIRC. We were taught to use them. They are gloriously tactile, like ASR33s.
But we used slide rules in lessons and exams. Hence pi
2=g=10.
My father had an electric (not electronic) calculator; watching it do division was like watching a Bombe work at TNMoC. He used it until he got a Compucorp (322?) programmable calculator the size and weight of a big brick, with Panaplex displays.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:22 pm
by bd139
tggzzz wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:46 pm
bd139 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:31 pm
To be fair I'm into
old calculators. You're in to
ancient calculators
Not as ancient as you think...
My school had two of them, IIRC. We were taught to use them. They are gloriously tactile, like ASR33s.
But we used slide rules in lessons and exams. Hence pi
2=g=10.
My father had an electric (not electronic) calculator; watching it do division was like watching a Bombe work at TNMoC. He used it until he got a Compucorp (322?) programmable calculator the size and weight of a big brick, with Panaplex displays.
That's more ancient than me
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I was fortunate to be (young?) enough that pocket calculators had completely obsoleted slide rules and various other mechanical contraptions by the time I needed one.
As for pi^2 = g = 10, that's close enough away but far enough away to annoy both physicists and mathematicians equally.
Those compucorp calculators look rather interesting. Will have to keep an eye out for them!
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:23 pm
by tggzzz
Well, physicists can be pragmatic, e.g. their famous "spherical cow in a vacuum".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
My father's last published paper has an amusing first line to the introduction. He wanted to know what might happen if a pressurised water reactor had a loss of coolant accident - in particular whether the coolant would stay around long enough for the reactor's control rods to be scrammed. He started his analysis by using waterflowing out of a bathtub.
Fukushima was >20 years later.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:51 pm
by Specmaster
bd139 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:22 pm
tggzzz wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:46 pm
bd139 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:31 pm
To be fair I'm into
old calculators. You're in to
ancient calculators
Not as ancient as you think...
My school had two of them, IIRC. We were taught to use them. They are gloriously tactile, like ASR33s.
But we used slide rules in lessons and exams. Hence pi
2=g=10.
My father had an electric (not electronic) calculator; watching it do division was like watching a Bombe work at TNMoC. He used it until he got a Compucorp (322?) programmable calculator the size and weight of a big brick, with Panaplex displays.
That's more ancient than me
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
I was fortunate to be (young?) enough that pocket calculators had completely obsoleted slide rules and various other mechanical contraptions by the time I needed one.
As for pi^2 = g = 10, that's close enough away but far enough away to annoy both physicists and mathematicians equally.
Those compucorp calculators look rather interesting. Will have to keep an eye out for them!
Haha that is so very true, and to think that many people around now won't even be aware of the bubble LED displays either
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:38 pm
by mnementh
Oh,
Happy St. Drunkard's Day, BTW... here, have yourself a intoxication-induced snake-god to celebrate...
mnem
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Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:15 pm
by Robert
Dispite being Irish enough to qualify for a passport if I wan't I haven't had a drink today - yet
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I've a bottle of 12year old Redbreast that will probably be bit lower before the days end.
I did go to a Radio Rally today, Grantham. New one for me. It's about 60 miles away. It was pretty wet today but a Google Earth recce indicated it was indoor only so chanced it. It was all indoors and a very small venue. All trader type sellers. No empty spaces. Very little TE and nothing interesting. Saviour of the trip was a seller with about 8 large boxes of bagged up NOS components. All at 50p a bag.. First thing I noticed was a Lascar LCD panel mound DVM module. Ended up with 9 3 each of 3 types. All 3.5 digit. A couple are already allocated to a homebrew PSU that has a faulty DVM of unkown origin. Some decent ceramic caps, nice selection of PICs lifetime supply of 8MHz xtals, small zeners, iron powder toroid cores (labled which is nice for a change normally it's hard to tell if you have iron or ferrite until you get them home), some connectors, 60A 100V TO247 N MOSFETs, nice micro grabbersetc. I bought about 46 bags and stuck to stuff I know I'll use and it's all new quality stuff. Also got an old Ultra standby UHF Tx/RX.
It's a hollow state two channel box one of the later versions with an inverter replacing the original dynamotor for the HT. That was only £3.
Robert.
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:53 pm
by BU508A
Atkelar is doing a full restauration and repair of a Tektronix 576 curve tracer.
This is part 1:
Re: Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) : Discussion and Group Therapy Thread
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:24 pm
by bd139
I wonder what the odds of that ever working again are
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