What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[Addicted2AnalogTek]

A CRT "rejuvenator" LEADER LCT-910A for HP8560 SA for a ridiculous small price, before I'll invest in the LCD kit, I want to make sure that all is OK and try to clean this guy cathode. If it works it will be a plast

I've been interested in CRT rejuvenation for a while now, just haven't been brave enough to venture into that land! Do you plan to make a thread to share your adventures??

The I'm gonna be rich or at least famous, offering the service to people around Mannheim or whoever pays for the travel and some tasty stuff

Sounds like me.... "Will work for tasty exotic foods!!"        Actually, I was paid in Korean food last night for helping move tools!!
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[DC1MC]

A CRT "rejuvenator" LEADER LCT-910A for HP8560 SA for a ridiculous small price, before I'll invest in the LCD kit, I want to make sure that all is OK and try to clean this guy cathode. If it works it will be a plast

I've been interested in CRT rejuvenation for a while now, just haven't been brave enough to venture into that land! Do you plan to make a thread to share your adventures??

The I'm gonna be rich or at least famous, offering the service to people around Mannheim or whoever pays for the travel and some tasty stuff

Sounds like me.... "Will work for tasty exotic foods!!"        Actually, I was paid in Korean food last night for helping move tools!!

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Sure, the traditional tear-down before power-up and the "before" and "after" pictures of the treated tubes will be in this thread. Stay tuned for the news.
Actually I've read that some guy used some improvised method and "only" got 1000 hrs !!! of good brightness from his almost fully dead SA tube (he let the SA run continuously for like a month an a half) ,  I would say that if one gets another 1000 hours of operation of his device, it should be good.
Let's see how this professional thingie, that was ridiculously expensive some while ago, will behave, the arcade games people are quite happy with it.

 Cheers,
 DC1MC
 

[Tedro]

Just arrived........an isolatiin transformer

Strange but I would have thought it should come with a normal 13A socket on it, mine did?

That's a "building site isolation transformer" where most equipment has to have that type of plug and not a standard 13A socket.

McBryce.

Thought building sites had to be 110V and have a yellow socket?

From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

That is for sure a "240V-110V building site transformer" for plumbers and electricians and folks like that to work from. In the UK all powered hand tools and things like that have to be 110V on the sites.

Quote just to post the picture again because everybody else is doing it.

fake edit: that is all

[MosherIV]

That is for sure a "240V-110V building site transformer" for plumbers and electricians and folks like that to work from. In the UK all powered hand tools and things like that have to be 110V on the sites. 

It is definitely 240V to 240V (ie one to one)

It is in the style of a building site isolation transformer.
Yes, they are normally 110V outputbut this one is not.
110V normally has a Yellow socket. I think blue and red sockets mean 240V or 3phase 440V

Not sure why this one has the 16A 2P+E socket on it. Yes, I was after one with a UK 3 pin mains socket but I got this one for £40

I had been watching ebay for ages for one 

[TheSteve]

Bought a few 5/16 inch torque wrenches. Friday night was spent calibrating one to 8 in-lbs for 3.5mm connectors and one to 5 in-lbs for SMA connectors.

[Terry01]

Got these today! 

[frozenfrogz]

After two unsuccessful orders I finally got the 4x optics for my eBay snipe.
Company one sent an invoice with a ridiculous price, almost twice as much as advertised on their site, company two took the money and was not able to fulfill the order, though the optics were shown as stocked in the web shop. After not hearing from them for over a week I called and they said: well, we can not get that from our vendor - they are going to refund.

Finally, Distrelec was able to supply me with the long awaited MEO-004 - very fast shipping and the price was OK, compared to what some other resellers are asking.
In general I think that Vision Engineering gear is a bit too much on the pricey side. After all, the 4x optics is only a single lens in a very simple aluminium mount. For a little under 200 € that is not exactly a bargain. Sadly I could not find the 4x as used item.

[beanflying]

Several flavours of assorted jellybeans now with straight pins 

And I got a freebie 

[MosherIV]

Picked up another ebay bargin.........

A microscope, so that I can see smd at my age 



Comes with x10, x15, x20 and x30

Now, I need to get rubber cups for the eye peices

[JanNousiainen]

East german quality optics, a Carl Zeiss Jena SM XX stereomicroscope 

With 6.3x oculars magnification is 4x - 20 x, going to buy 25x oculars to go up to 100x. Perhaps LED ring light would not go amiss either...

[frozenfrogz]

Looks like April is the magnification month

[beanflying]

 A $3 bag of 45 degree N.O. Fan Sssshhhh 

Main bench supply done only kicking in at 8A'ish+ so silence 98% of the time.

[TheSteve]

Agilent 85033D 3.5mm male cal kit. Sold as being rated 0-6 GHz, supposedly they are good to much higher.

[Specmaster]

Well I've been busy on Ebay this week which seems to have picked up again, the last few weeks since Christmas it has been shit and out of the dozen or so items purchased these 2 are by far the best and most interesting items. I have been after a decent AM/FM RF signal generator, one that actually has proper FM modulation and sweep function beside the AM modulation for ages now and fingers crossed I've found one, time will tell when it arrives but it was listed as working.

The HP3478A was also listed as working and sure enough it is working and appears to be still in calibration so that was a real bargain.

[BravoV]

Time-nuts thingies ... GPSDO board.

[salviador]

My new toys 

Ikascope and 861DW

[Terry01]

These arrived the last couple days!

[TheSteve]

Fluke 742A-10K

Born 02-Nov-99
Nominal value = 10.000024 kohms
Alpha = 0.030
beta = -0.015

Looks not too bad on a 3458A with an unknown last cal date.

[Specmaster]

Just brought these to go with my new HP 3478A meter.

[nanofrog]

I love the fancy CAT5e interconnects. 

[HighVoltage]

Fluke 742A-10K

Born 02-Nov-99
Nominal value = 10.000024 kohms
Alpha = 0.030
beta = -0.015

Looks not too bad on a 3458A with an unknown last cal date.

Ahhh, you grabbed it, I was too slow.
I looked at it and before I could hit the buy now button, it was gone, LOL.
Nice catch, now you can calibrate your 3458A by yourself for the resistance.

[gamalot]

Jameco breadboard from Amazon, very good build quality! 

[nanofrog]

FWIW, based on manufacturer P/N's on Jameco's site, they're from Wisher, which makes decent products. 

[gamalot]

FWIW, based on manufacturer P/N's on Jameco's site, they're from Wisher, which makes decent products. 

Two months ago, when I bought a Raspberry Pi at an online shop in Australia, I bought two breadboards by the way. After I received them, I did some simple tests and found that they were completely useless garbage. So I went to Amazon and bought some Jameo's.

I have attached two pictures, you can see the difference between them!

[nanofrog]

That is bad.

I'd guess the crappy one is steel rather than phosphor bronze in the Jameco/Wisher.