What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[P90]

Dental picks. One place had a box full of used dental picks. Bough one of each model. They looked cleaned but I will clean with ultrasonic anyway. Good to have in the tool box.

Used dental picks... that's disgusting!!! 

[GreyWoolfe]

Used dental picks... that's disgusting!!! 
Nasty!!!
:vomit:

Many high quality metal dental picks are designed to be cleaned, sterilized and reused in hospitals.

A couple of my old picks actually came from my dentist    I asked if he some some old ones and he gave me a couple.  That was 15 years ago and I still have/use them.  He gave them to me pre sterilized. 

[P90]

Used dental picks... that's disgusting!!! 
Nasty!!!
:vomit:

Many high quality metal dental picks are designed to be cleaned, sterilized and reused in hospitals.

nevertheless... disgusting...

[technix]

Used dental picks... that's disgusting!!! 
Nasty!!!
:vomit:

Many high quality metal dental picks are designed to be cleaned, sterilized and reused in hospitals.

Boil them in a pressure cooker for an hour, then soak them in strong bleach for a day, they should come out completely sterilized.

This was how my grandma, who used to work in a hospital, sterilize tools used in operation room.

[P90]

Used dental picks... that's disgusting!!! 
Nasty!!!
:vomit:

Many high quality metal dental picks are designed to be cleaned, sterilized and reused in hospitals.

Boil them in a pressure cooker for an hour, then soak them in strong bleach for a day, they should come out completely sterilized.

This was how my grandma, who used to work in a hospital, sterilize tools used in operation room.

Yeah, I know, it's just that my OCD tells me to buy new ones...       LOL

[TerraHertz]

Used dental picks... that's disgusting!!! 
Nasty!!!
:vomit:

Many high quality metal dental picks are designed to be cleaned, sterilized and reused in hospitals.

Boil them in a pressure cooker for an hour, then soak them in strong bleach for a day, they should come out completely sterilized.

This was how my grandma, who used to work in a hospital, sterilize tools used in operation room.

Yeah, I know, it's just that my OCD tells me to buy new ones...       LOL

That's really quite irrational. You should give some more attention to the causes of your response.
Here's an image to help with that. An assortment of surgical and dental implements, a large proportion of which were from hard-working environments.
Their history would have included countless cycles of use then sterilization. Followed by lying in damp, mildewed and rotting old boxes in an abandoned basement for maybe two decades before recovery.

But they are high quality stainless steel, and so there is nothing wrong with them at all.

[P90]

perhaps start sterilizing and reusing toilet paper too?  LOL

[tautech]

@TerraHertz
Locking hemostats, my favourite tool. 
Never seen so many. 

[P90]

@TerraHertz
Locking hemostats, my favourite tool. 
Never seen so many. 

wondering in what capacity do you use locking hemostats for in electronic applications? I have some, but rarely use 'em, occasionally as a heatsink for soldering a sensitive TH part.

[tautech]

@TerraHertz
Locking hemostats, my favourite tool. 
Never seen so many. 

wondering in what capacity do you use locking hemostats for in electronic applications? I have some, but rarely use 'em, occasionally as a heatsink for soldering a sensitive TH part.

I live in a much larger world than just electronics......believe it or not. 

Like small pliers they can be used for a multitude of things:
Hot handling.
General small plier duties.
Small fishing hook removal.
Holding needles firmly when stitching something tough together.
And so on.

[P90]

@TerraHertz
Locking hemostats, my favourite tool. 
Never seen so many. 

wondering in what capacity do you use locking hemostats for in electronic applications? I have some, but rarely use 'em, occasionally as a heatsink for soldering a sensitive TH part.

I live in a much larger world than just electronics......believe it or not. 

Like small pliers they can be used for a multitude of things:
Hot handling.
General small plier duties.
Small fishing hook removal.
Holding needles firmly when stitching something tough together.
And so on.

I see.

those squeeze pretty tightly, it hurts just thinking how surgeons grab skin with those... ouch! Good thing I wasn't awake during my surgery... 

[bitseeker]

Boil them in a pressure cooker for an hour, then soak them in strong bleach for a day, they should come out completely sterilized.

This was how my grandma, who used to work in a hospital, sterilize tools used in operation room.

Yeah, I know, it's just that my OCD tells me to buy new ones...       LOL

LOL! That'd make it hard to go to the dentist or medical facility without bringing your own new tools for them to use.

[P90]

Boil them in a pressure cooker for an hour, then soak them in strong bleach for a day, they should come out completely sterilized.

This was how my grandma, who used to work in a hospital, sterilize tools used in operation room.

Yeah, I know, it's just that my OCD tells me to buy new ones...       LOL

LOL! That'd make it hard to go to the dentist or medical facility without bringing your own new tools for them to use.

I try not to think about that...

[Housedad]

various small Ebay stuff came in this week.

USB to Rs232 adapter board
3 arduino nano's
usbtinyisp programmer
usbasp programmer
serial display board for arduino
Some pcb protoboards
plato sidecutters
curve tracer board kit from thailand kit. 
jameco ic grabbag
zd-985 desoldering station, extra spare parts kit, and a  Glass/Spring/Seal Kit for the handle
The book:  Practical circuits.

Just a bunch of small stuff to round out the bench and learning

[VK5RC]

Re the dental picks, P90 don't think about the cutlery in your favourite restaurant!
Rob

[P90]

Re the dental picks, P90 don't think about the cutlery in your favourite restaurant!
Rob

one of the many reasons I don't eat out...

[technix]

Boil them in a pressure cooker for an hour, then soak them in strong bleach for a day, they should come out completely sterilized.

This was how my grandma, who used to work in a hospital, sterilize tools used in operation room.

Yeah, I know, it's just that my OCD tells me to buy new ones...       LOL

LOL! That'd make it hard to go to the dentist or medical facility without bringing your own new tools for them to use.

I try not to think about that...

Here if the complete manual:

Immediately after use: Wash the equipment with soap, rinse the equipment under running water until clean. Do not reuse for the day.
At the end of the day: Boil the used equipment in water using a pressure cooker at 105 degrees Celsius for one hour. Allow the equipment to cool during the night wrapped in a few layers of clean tissue paper. (In hospital they used sterilized cloth for this, tissue paper is a good home replacement.) The tissue paper should be disposed of after use.
The second day: Submerge the boiled equipment in a strong bleach entirely for 24 hours.
The third day: Rinse the bleach off the equipment using distilled water. Store in a box covered in tissue paper. (ditto for the sterilized cloth above)
Immediately before use: Dip the end of the tool to be used in 75% ethanol.

[GreyWoolfe]

@TerraHertz
Locking hemostats, my favourite tool. 
Never seen so many. 

wondering in what capacity do you use locking hemostats for in electronic applications? I have some, but rarely use 'em, occasionally as a heatsink for soldering a sensitive TH part.

Mine mostly get used for plugging in replacement sensor boards on equipment I service.  My fingers can't get in the space where the cable is, so I hold the wires just behind the connector and reach in the limited space to plug the board up.  No, I don't squeeze tightly, I don't want to go through the annoying process of replacing the cable due to damaged wires.

[McBryce]

I bought one of these: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Mini-Portable-65W-Programmable-TS100-Electric-Soldering-Iron-Digital-LCD-HM-/232364307508
After trying in vain to solder some wires on a car outside on a windy day with my Portasol Gas Iron I decided it's time to try some other solutions. All of my other irons have bulky stations connected to them and are wired down behind my bench, making them difficult to move. I've read and watched some reviews about this iron and it seems to be more than just a gadget. We'll see when it arrives...

McBryce.

[technix]

Re the dental picks, P90 don't think about the cutlery in your favourite restaurant!
Rob

My family still sterilize our cutlery once every two or three months. The same boil-bleach cycle. We are even adding a little of vinegar into the bleach to make it stronger.

The cutlery in my family is mostly made of stainless steel and tempered glass, so they can withstand the hot and then highly oxidizing/slightly corrosive environment.

[Gyro]

@TerraHertz
Locking hemostats, my favourite tool. 
Never seen so many. 

wondering in what capacity do you use locking hemostats for in electronic applications? I have some, but rarely use 'em, occasionally as a heatsink for soldering a sensitive TH part.

I live in a much larger world than just electronics......believe it or not. 

Like small pliers they can be used for a multitude of things:
Hot handling.
General small plier duties.
Small fishing hook removal.
Holding needles firmly when stitching something tough together.
And so on.

I see.

those squeeze pretty tightly, it hurts just thinking how surgeons grab skin with those... ouch! Good thing I wasn't awake during my surgery... 

I was during mine! 

[canibalimao]

My most recent aquisition (a few minutes ago):



Hope it will last as long as my previous one that is on my family for 20 years 

[rdl]

My Maha C808M has apparently decided to take itself out of service (and a couple of batteries with it in the process). Until I can see if it's fixable, I ordered a couple of new chargers and I figured I might as well get some batteries at the same time. The first purchase arrived today, only $22 from Newegg with 4 low self discharge NiMH AAs and shipping included. Took two whole days to get here.

[julianhigginson]

My family still sterilize our cutlery once every two or three months. The same boil-bleach cycle. We are even adding a little of vinegar into the bleach to make it stronger.

Unfortunately, that's not how acids and bases work.
you're now washing your cutlery with less hydroxide ions, but some added salt and water and heat.

[3db]

I bought one of these: http://www.ebay.de/itm/Mini-Portable-65W-Programmable-TS100-Electric-Soldering-Iron-Digital-LCD-HM-/232364307508
After trying in vain to solder some wires on a car outside on a windy day with my Portasol Gas Iron I decided it's time to try some other solutions. All of my other irons have bulky stations connected to them and are wired down behind my bench, making them difficult to move. I've read and watched some reviews about this iron and it seems to be more than just a gadget. We'll see when it arrives...

McBryce.

I bought one of those and a selection of tips perhaps a year ago.
It turned out to be a lot better than I expected.
I love it.

3DB