What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[Zucca]

Lindstrom 8148
Little and nice cutters, about $30 shipped.

Can you tell me where you get these for $30?? All my known suppliers charge at least double this amount.

ebay.com used like new.

[edavid]

Scored a Tek 11802 mainframe + SD22 head for next to nothing.  Advertised as "No Power" condition, and repaired within the same day it was delivered (yesterday).

Nice deal!  What was the fix?

Was it well packed?

[Addicted2AnalogTek]

Scored a Tek 11802 mainframe + SD22 head for next to nothing.  Advertised as "No Power" condition, and repaired within the same day it was delivered (yesterday).

Nice deal!  What was the fix?

Was it well packed?

It was decently well packed, but still could have used some more fill between the inner boxing/styrofoam and the outer box. It slapped around a bit and dislodged the front panel of the acquisition unit a bit. I haven't fully removed it to see the extent of the damage, yet, but it did end up starting up with no error codes and it does read the SD-22. Hopefully there's no cracked pcb's or anything of that nature.

The fix was getting in there with an endoscope and finding the dislodged cables, some obviously disconnected cables, and a thorough cleaning of all the dust off of the CRT face, Touch Panel PCB, and the rest of that assembly (to alleviate E3311 code). I still need to read some more regarding what else should be checked. The thought crossed my mind to make a thread for it, or a post, but the procedure was as follows: Find disconnected cable, plug it in, power on. Not working? find another and plug it in; repeat until it powers up. The touch panel disassembly & cleaning was trivial.

I also came across quite a bit of complaints regarding the touch interface on these scopes. I must say that, after a thorough cleaning of the touch panel assembly & screen, I absolutely cannot complain at all - it responds to my fat fingers much better than my stupid iPhone ever did. I cleaned the screen with distilled water + a splash of IPA, cleaned the plastics in the sink with dish soap, and cleaned the pcb thoroughly with 70% IPA, mopping up after myself with swabs.

[armandine2]

...made a point of going to Lidl today - centre aisle

[Ground_Loop]

Picked up a meter for the kitchen tool drawer.

[shapirus]

A Shore D durometer to measure a bunch of datasheetless epoxy compounds to pick ones that are the best for specific purposes.

[armandine2]

..finally, ordered today, a Probemaster 8000 series Test Lead Kit

default worked out ok -

https://probemaster.com/8000-series-kits/

[Zucca]

Picked up a meter for the kitchen tool drawer.

Car emergency meter.

[Ground_Loop]

Picked up a meter for the kitchen tool drawer.

Car emergency meter.

Exactly!

[faraday]

ADR1001 not impress so far.

[Kjelt]

Not bought, a gift, mostly 80s stuff from his father who passed away.
Second batch, I will give it to one of my younger friends who also repairs retro electronics and likes to sort it all out 
Better than the family trash it and my friend already got quite some nice genuine transistors that in the mean while have become unobtanium or fake replica's.

[Furna]

Not bought, a gift, mostly 80s stuff from his father who passed away.
Second batch, I will give it to one of my younger friends who also repairs retro electronics and likes to sort it all out 
Better than the family trash it and my friend already got quite some nice genuine transistors that in the mean while have become unobtanium or fake replica's.

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Pure Gold!

[Smokey]

Not bought, a gift, mostly 80s stuff from his father who passed away.
Second batch, I will give it to one of my younger friends who also repairs retro electronics and likes to sort it all out 
Better than the family trash it and my friend already got quite some nice genuine transistors that in the mean while have become unobtanium or fake replica's.

there is a monthly swap meet I attend, and there is always a guy that has a table with sheets of styrofoam with dip ICs stuck in it like in the picture here.  I'm sure some of that stuff is interesting, but apart from making a neat trinket I have no idea why anyone would buy any of those ICs.  The chances of someone actually at the swap meet that day and actually needing those specific chips is in the limit approaching zero.  Since you have to pay to be a vender, I guess that guy's motivation must be showing off his collection?

[tom66]

Well last week but I guess it counts, an LG gram 16Z90RS.  Second hand, cost me £550 from CeX (used computer/phone store in the UK.)  It looks like two years ago it retailed for just a shade under £1,500, so I'm glad someone else dealt with that depreciation... new computer hardware is crazy.

So far, pros:
- Stupidly lightweight, like 1.2kg, it's basically a big iPad
- Keyboard is pretty decent for a small laptop, not amazing but definitely not 'bad' either
- OLED screen 16:10 and 3K resolution - gorgeous (and no burn in visible on 2yr old machine, good to see)
- Thunderbolt port can drive my two main monitors well
- CPU is very fast for an ultrabook, PassMark 17,000 score almost as high as my desktop...

But cons:
- Occasional thermal throttling given the CPU is easy to trigger sometimes, might need to get a stand for it to help ventilation when using it on my desk
- Touchpad isn't great (poor click feel and 'invisible' style so easy to access by mistake)
- Battery life of 10 hours - yeah right. Maybe 5 hours with normal use, good for sure but I'm not sure what you'd have to turn off to get 10 hours.
- The power adapter is surprisingly chunky given the laptop itself is super lightweight

But overall it's a keeper. 

[Bryn]

Bought myself these little things from Amazon...



They're USB Micro to USB-C converters, that I intend to use to connect a spare USB-C cable to my Samsung WB150 camera (where its own data transfer cable started to get faulty, after only a year).

[jonovid]

Bought myself these little things from Amazon...



They're USB Micro to USB-C converters, that I intend to use to connect a spare USB-C cable to my Samsung WB150 camera (where its own data transfer cable started to get faulty, after only a year).

large image but 100% CGI / photoshop thumbnail imaging.
-prefer genuine images if it must be large.

[JoanBS]

I just bought this multimeter that I don't need, to play with for a while
https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005005963592439.html


(Sorry for my Google translate English)

[jonovid]

jewellers file set
I will add my own wooden file handles

[RAPo]

A Miron63(M63-v3.4h, blue screen)

[faraday]

Yokogawa7651 programmable DC Source from Japan 

[msuffidy]

I got a used Altera DE2 kit for $50 Canadian. (That's pretty good?)

You know our economy is probably going to be destroyed within 2 years. Or maybe things will change.

[neverendingstudent]

I just seem to keep stumbling across amazing deals on multimeters.

Earlier today I won an auction for a Keithley 2001 7.5 digit multimeter - the first 7.5 digit I'll have ever gotten my hands on - for $632 total.  NOT parts/repair status - working.

It was just over a month ago that I got a hold of a sexy black model Keysight 34465a for $500 cash...

Kind of wondering if I'll stumble across a 3458a in a dumpster at this rate.

[armandine2]

...currently on sale

https://telonic.co.uk/product/4016-sensepeek-pcbite-kit-with-2x-200mhz-handsfree-oscilloscope-probe/

seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Zucca]

Earlier today I won an auction for a Keithley 2001 7.5 digit multimeter - the first 7.5 digit I'll have ever gotten my hands on - for $632 total.  NOT parts/repair status - working.

It will be soon for parts if you don't recap it ASAP.
Congrats, FW A or B version?

[neverendingstudent]

Earlier today I won an auction for a Keithley 2001 7.5 digit multimeter - the first 7.5 digit I'll have ever gotten my hands on - for $632 total.  NOT parts/repair status - working.

It will be soon for parts if you don't recap it ASAP.
Congrats, FW A or B version?

I don't have it in hand yet - literally won the auction yesterday.  Could you expand on the advise to recap it?  Do capacitor failures in these units lead to secondary component failures?