What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[FrankBuss]

Cool. You should start a thread for this for all of us clock (analog or digital) fans.

Good idea, will write updates about the build process here: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/pimp-up-grandma's-clock-with-nixie-tubes/

[Bud]

I couldn't resist and bought some Nixie tubes from Dalibor Farny to build my own Nixie clock. He creates gorgeous new Nixie tubes.

Man, that is great what the guy is doing. Very inusual business though.

[GreyWoolfe]

i grabbed another 2 Samsung SyncMaster 2443BW monitors from our local surplus store.  I now have 3 and for $25 each without stands, it's a bargain as far as I'm concerned.

[Towger]

Ohh, my favorite kind of keyboard.  Nice, solid feel and action, and can also be used as a blunt force weapon and stop small caliber bullets.

When I was no collage, James of of the fellows who looked after the computers dropped one on his foot. Needless to say the keyboard was fine, but he spent 6 weeks with half his leg in plaster.

[SingedFingers]

Everyone likes those keyboards when they use them. Everyone hates you when you use one though. Clackity STFU.

[PA0PBZ]

Man, that is great what the guy is doing. Very inusual business though.

Did you watch this?

[mmagin]

This week, a bunch of miscellaneous assemblies of flexible microwave coax (stuff made by Micro-coax and Gore) arrived from ebay that I could never justify buying new, along with some more pedestrian RG400 assemblies.  Immediate use in mind is to get some flatter results out of my improvised doubler-filter-mixer tracking generator setup for my spectrum analyzer (the LO output is in the range of 3.9-6.8 GHz).

[Kjelt]

Did you watch this?

    That explains the price 

Now I have a problem, seeing that Spot welder I also want one, are there any affordable types out there or can you build it DIY?

[Cubdriver]

Man, that is great what the guy is doing. Very inusual business though.

Did you watch this?

Dammit there you guys go costing me MORE $$$$$!!!   

 

Seriously, that's some pretty incredible craftsmanship!  I play with glass, and know vacuum from previous jobs, but haven't had the opportunity to combine the two.  A glass lathe would definitely be a very cool thing to get a chance to play with.

-Pat

[Bud]

No!!!! No!!!! What did i just watched?!! The guy is Faberge of nixies!

[djos]

Man, that is great what the guy is doing. Very inusual business though.

Did you watch this?

Wow, absolutely incredible craftsmanship! 

[bitseeker]

Did you watch this?

    That explains the price 

You can say that again. What a process. Amazing!

[raspberrypi]

I bought this for way to much money.


I cant wait to use it with out eye protection and point it at cars or my friends eyes.

[McBryce]

Man, that is great what the guy is doing. Very inusual business though.

Did you watch this?

Wow, just wow! I had to go and find a hat so that I could take it off to that man. What a skilled piece of work. So why do they only cost $148?

McBryce.

[iainwhite]

Went to the local Ham flea market this morning and bought this Simpson 260 for $20

[Urs42]

I bought this catastrophic power distribution panel (Including the house where this thing is mounted). The panel will be replaced soon. I did install the 16A 3 Phase CEE plug because all cables in the house are only rated for 6 Amps (230/400V).

[Martin.M]

a fat 12H choke for my amplfier project

[Housedad]

144 led ring light and a 1x Barlow (protection) for my stereo microscope came in.  so did a polyester capacitor assortment. 

[Cubdriver]

My most recent evilBay purchases have arrived...



-Pat

[tkuhmone]

Emergency stop button (to be used with Eaton UPS) for the hamradio station what I am setting up on remote site. Then it is possible to to disable all output(s).

[DTJ]

My most recent evilBay purchases have arrived...



-Pat

I haven't seen or used a signature analyser for 25 years.
Do they still make / use them?

[Cubdriver]

Not that I'm aware of, but a lot of the 80s era HP gear that I have calls for one in the troubleshooting section, so I've had a search set up for quite some time.  This one showed up in what looked like decent condition for a low price relative to what most wanted for them, so I decided to grab it. May never really need it, but it's small and was inexpensive, so why not have it handy should the need arise?

-Pat

[DTJ]

Signature analysis is cool. I spent a few years repairing telecommunications test gear in the late 80s and some of the gear used it. Have fun with it.

[Cubdriver]

Cool - thanks. 

I presently know nothing about signature analysis other than it being called out as a troubleshooting technique for the equipment I mentioned earlier.  I got the manual scan from Keysight, so the next step is to read it and try to retain what it says.  The analyzer is in good physical shape, and everything seems to be there (some that I previously saw and passed on looked like they'd been dragged a few miles down a gravel road), so this one must have been in a lab somewhere I suppose.

-Pat

[bitseeker]

some that I previously saw and passed on looked like they'd been dragged a few miles down a gravel road

Sounds like many things on eBay.

I haven't used a signature analyzer before, either, but also saw it mentioned in some service manuals. Looking forward to a demo when you get it figured out.