Test Equipment Anonymous

MED6753 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 9:22 pm

MED6753 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:28 pm You haven't seen what's in that closet in the background yet. Tomorrow a pix after I unload 10 more totes of crap.

I forgot to take a pix of the new TE closet but here's something else. A milestone. Bench 1 completely devoid of TE and ready to be broken down for preparation to move. Have already started on bench 2. Things are proceeding well but nearly every bone and muscle in this old arse body is feeling it.

I think it’s a safe bet that I’ll have to die here. There’s simply too much stuff to ever move. I certainly don’t envy you the effort you’re expending getting everything migrated to the new place - lots of work! Hope you have an industrial-sized bottle of Advil on hand!

-Pat

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:07 pm

mnementh wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:16 pm

Cubdriver wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 9:14 pm I think I'm the one who needs a twelve (or more) step program. The ‘newest' counter arrived today, courtesy of Brown Santa….

Calibration due September 5th, 1980.

-Pat

Dood... the '70 called; they want their dust & grime back.

mnem
*airmails Pat a box of sanitizing wipes*

Now, now - its last calibration was in March of 1980. That dust and grime is from the early 80s at worst!!




-Pat

mnem
*toddles off to ded*

Welcome to the Dungeon of Doom. It's all there, somewhere. Except the boat anchors. They are still to move. They will be stored someplace else for the time being. And it will be quite a while before I dig into this and start getting it set up and arranged. Probably mid to late May. Right now close the room door and ignore it. Other priorities right now. But at least the vast majority of the actual move is done.

Good to see you made it at least mostly intact.

Enjoy a well-earned nap.

mnem
*currently weighing the cost vs benefit of going back to the dwagon-cave instead*

The first casualty of the move and it wasn't TE. Putting together the audio system and the JVC CD Player powers up but the transport is unresponsive. Opened it up and pieces of plastic from the bottom side of the transport fell out. Can't figure out how that happen. I moved the audio equipment myself and it didn't get any shock or was dropped. But somehow was damaged and is scrap.

For giggles went out on CL and a similar JVC CD Player 5 minutes away for $25. Made arrangements to pick up. Works perfect. Happy ending.

(Yes, I still listen to CD's. Old fashion I guess. )

Ah yes, music is good therapy for what you've been through these last few weeks and will get you in the right state of mind to start on the display room lab.

I'm another dinosaur who listens to (or at least rips to lossless format) CDs, and want physical copies of my media - none of this streaming stuff. Streaming is for YouTube; music and movies should be on shiny little round discs.

-Pat

I fit in that group as well, I often go to the charity shops and sift through their CD's, and then I take them home and transfer that to my hard drive and play them through iTunes. That way, if anything untoward happens, I still have the music in CD format and can rip them again and again if need be.

I have a couple of hundred CDs and I like listening to them. I could probably copy them to a new fangled streaming device, but I see no reason.

A few years back my Philips CD player died, because the laser diode had given up the ghost, and I swapped out the mechanism for a Chinese look alike from ebay. It worked but acted up. Eventually I splashed £200 on a new Onkyo which works very well. I did read a lament on the WWW about how modern laser diodes aren't made to last, and even expensive CD players have a definite and fairly short life. Elaborate plastic bits will break, even if they weren't done on the cheap in the first place, as with knobs and gears on some HP kit.

I'd guess some of the plastic bits on the JVC CD player, were at the point where you only had to look at them funny and they'd fall apart. $25 and five minutes away sounds like a good deal.

Zenith wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 7:42 pm I have a couple of hundred CDs and I like listening to them. I could probably copy them to a new fangled streaming device, but I see no reason.

I've mp3ed my collection, for use on my matchbox sized mp3 player in the car.

Getting that player wasn't as easy as I expected. The first one I tried played albums in some fixed arbirtary order, ignoring track title, filename etc.

The salesdroid didn't see anything wrong with that, and even had difficulty appreciating that I preferred to read book chapters in the correct order, not an order that the printer had invented for the sake of it. Got my money back, after being insistent.

I have a huge bin full of my CDs that wifey and I have archived to iTunes for her work iPod Classic. Which I will soon have to upgrade the SSD in... again.

I am currently in the process of curating a large selection of that which we both like and creating my own archive; as hers now includes such massive quantity of various music I simply cannot find mine in all of it. iTunes still kicks ass for this single, simple purpose; one just has to be patient and ensure that you have "Error Correction" enabled when importing. This does make the process take much longer, but when ripping from imperfect original media, it is absolutely necessary.

From there one can just export as MP3 or copy the folders directly as AAC; most playback devices fully support both nowadays, even the factory radio in our Rav4.

mnem
I fought the lawn and the lawn won.

*pokes the thread to see if Mike is still alive*

mnem

I'm alive and still kicking. By the end of this coming week everything will be moved and the old place cleaned up. Looking forward to that because once that's done I can start fitting up the new lab.

Take it easy. Will you paint the walls in your old place?

BU508A wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 7:10 pm Take it easy. Will you paint the walls in your old place?

No. If you recall I repainted the whole place about 3 years ago. And moving out I only marred one small area of a wall in the living room. I expect the landlord will probably re-paint the entire apartment a neutral color anyway.

Another major milestone. The boat anchors have arrived. Yours truly was the mule and Blondie provided supervision and emergency spotter. Temporary storage in the master bedroom. One 7904 in the closet, one Type 535A, and three Type 547. Next week I'll be assembling bench 2 and they will move into the lab. This completes about 99% of the move. The rest is clean up and minor stuff.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:29 pm Another major milestone. The boat anchors have arrived. Yours truly was the mule and Blondie provided supervision and emergency spotter. Temporary storage in the master bedroom. One 7904 in the closet, one Type 535A, and three Type 547. Next week I'll be assembling bench 2 and they will move into the lab. This completes about 99% of the move. The rest is clean up and minor stuff.

Nearly all done then, great, take care with those boat anchors when you pop them up on the bench. I think I actually prefer the colour of your sprayed one to the originals.

I really would have preferred not to paint that cabinet because I knew it would not match the others. But that's the scope that has the tweaked and bent chassis and I had to trim to covers to get them to fit properly. That color does very closely match newer Tek cabinets. I've heard that the "Tek Blue" color did not change over the years so the mismatch I assume is due to aging of the original paint.

Yes, I think you are correct there, if you take a closer look at the other three, the top left one appears to slightly darker than the other two.

mnem
Actually, I don't have anything better to do...

It's done. Final cleanup and handed in the keys today. It's been a long haul and my old arse body hurts.

Going to close out this thread. Starting Monday (hopefully) will be a new thread of the new lab build up. Stay tuned.

Welcome home, Mike.

*toddles off to ded*