What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[Terry01]

Picked up various banana ends... (Attachment Link)

Nice 

[tautech]

A Tek P6021 current probe on eBay at a reasonable price.  (~10% of new price)

[thm_w]

More usleeves: https://www.eevblog.com/product/usleeve/

Dave is subsidizing my component addiction, shipping cost him a fortune ($22 aus bucks) . I'll have to donate a few $$ to get him back in the black.

[GreyWoolfe]

[quote author=vk6zgo link=topic=47932.m
Yeah, many tools are OK on softwood & "die the death" when exposed to hardwood.

I remember many years ago, having a popular woodworking book that advocated making the  mating cuts in floor joists & the wall timber framing with a jigsaw.

Seemed like a great idea, till the jigsaw blade touched the jarrah---- clang! goodbye blade!
Jarrah is great wood, till you come to cut it--- "shame you can't weld it!"
[/quote]

Just ran into this myself.  Granddaughter broke the bottom step of the bunk bed.  I had a small tabletop in the garage suitable to make a new step.  Decided to make the cuts with my jig saw.  Not sure what the wood was but the blade struggled to cut, bounced on initial cut and was a pain with the cuts being less than stellar.  Stepdaughter didn't care, the step was replaced.  Of course, the idiot behind the jig saw completely ignored the band saw that would have been more than suitable to do the job.    The saw was a recent purchase at a yard sale and had not even been used in anger yet outside of turning it on to make sure it worked.  Lesson learned.

[CalMachine]

Picked up this Fluke box full of little gold candies for cheap!

[beanflying]

Picked up this Fluke box full of little gold candies for cheap!

Was that 'cheap' or just 'cheap' compared to what evilbay thinks it is worth. I am jealous btw on my maybe one day list

[CalMachine]

Was that 'cheap' or just 'cheap' compared to what evilbay thinks it is worth. I am jealous btw on my maybe one day list

purchase price was $300.  not SUPER cheap, but significantly cheaper than anything on the evilbay

[beanflying]

Nice price  compared to the usual $1k USD+ they seem to ask for.

[Calambres]

Audio-Technica VM540ML/H

[DimitriP]

Audio-Technica VM540ML/H

Mmmm....what is it replacing?

[Calambres]

An old Ortofon LM-20.




The Audio-Technica runs circles around the eldest...

[Marck]

I received my Anritsu MF57A 600Mhz frequency counter complete with operation and service manual.  This was a nostalgic purchase because it was one of the bits of kit on the bench when i started in telecommunications that i never played with because the learning curve was high and I didn’t have the opportunity to get my grubby fingers into it. 

M

[eti]

I bought a cluster of stars, just to the left of the outer spiral arm, for a paltry £1.90. Look up and you might see them.

[Mr. Scram]

I bought a cluster of stars, just to the left of the outer spiral arm, for a paltry £1.90. Look up and you might see them.

You may be interested in a bridge I have for sale.

[ebclr]

Rigol DS5074

[McBryce]

I bought a cluster of stars, just to the left of the outer spiral arm, for a paltry £1.90. Look up and you might see them.

I'd question the legality of that sale. But while you're here. I have a very nice mountain in the mid-atlantic ridge for sale if you are interested.

McBryce.

[beanflying]

Went to the Hardware shop with actual $ in my wallet. Needed to supplement what should have been enough with a chunk of plastic $

WEA........... Clamps are now being used on the wallet for a while at least but maybe I should add some of the 4L of PVA to help balance the non budget......

[Mr. Scram]

I'd question the legality of that sale. But while you're here. I have a very nice mountain in the mid-atlantic ridge for sale if you are interested.

McBryce.

Get in line! My bridge was first. 

[VK5RC]

@b-f  you can never have too many clamps

[McBryce]

I'd question the legality of that sale. But while you're here. I have a very nice mountain in the mid-atlantic ridge for sale if you are interested.

McBryce.

Get in line! My bridge was first. 

I don't see a conflict there. Anyone with their own mountain most likely needs a bridge too

McBryce.

[Black Phoenix]

Do you check if your cables are truly silicone (can withstand a soldering iron at 300°C/570°F), and not just overly plasticized PVC?
The extra plasticizer tends to leech out, melding the cable with any PVC or compatible plastics given sufficient contact duration (weeks).

Regarding this, Today I gone again to the Electronic supermarkets and they had one there already cut for testing. Yes they are not truly silicone, they started to rip parts with a hot soldering iron. Also no indication off the wire gauge plus writings on it, but by the cross section is way smaller. Insulation was 12AWG (4.5mm) cooper inside equivalent to a 16AWG (1.29mm).

I will probably buy the cable separately and the banana plugs and do myself my extensions.

[Ground_Loop]

Finally bought a voltage reference.  Got this setup off Ebay for $300 shipped.

[TheHolyHorse]

Finally bought a voltage reference.  Got this setup off Ebay for $300 shipped.

Nice!!

[dr.diesel]

Ok, I didn't purchase it, but my Brother found this laying in the dirt in an old barn of his, no other TE related stuff just this.  It's an Eico 427 in horrible shape, I have no plans for it but thought I'd post here and see if anybody needs a knob/etc, tube might still be in-tact.  Reasonably sure about 10000000000000000000000 generations of mice have occupied it over the decades.

Otherwise off to the trash it goes.

[McBryce]

A splash of paint (Tek blue) and some calibration and she'll be right.

McBryce.