What did you buy today? Post your latest purchase!

[rdl]

Ordered one of these red LED flashlights Wednesday night along with a new pair of house slippers. Delivered today, Sunday by USPS. And it was the "free shipping". Unbelievable.

[Neepa]

Bought a Ono Sokki CF-920 Spectrum Analyzer for 180 Euro. Including a pair of nicely made cables from the seller and like 200 pages worth of Instruction Manual.

Needs some feet and a minor repair of one of its channels since it cannot hear anything below -20dB on that one . Thankfully I've got some accessory cards with the unit or I would be shit out of luck should its internal non standard drive die. The analog output plotter card also gives me the excuse to buy a pen plotter for it to draw nice graphs .

[rfclown]

Leo Bodnar pulse generator. Rise time 36.34 psec, fall time 30.26 psec. And some solderless breadboards from Jameco.

[gamalot]

A gaming mouse for my son. 

[PlainName]

Bog roll.

No, really. whogivesacrap.org is the place and it's the first time in living memory I've purchased something on the basis of a bloody snailmail circular. I am feeling quite disgusted.

[rdl]

I probably made a mistake and bought a smartphone. AT&T is cutting off 3G here tomorrow and of course I waited till the last minute to buy a new phone. I went to two different AT&T stores with no luck (we only sell contracts) (sorry they're all out of stock), then they finally found me a cheap one at an odd place called "Fashion Plaza" where they specialize in flamboyant, urban clothing with a cell phone sideline. They told me I could probably get a cheaper "dumb phone" at Walmart, but I really don't like Walmart much. At least I have something to make and take calls and it'll have do for now.

[mansaxel]

Fluke 8020 and 8060 manuals, looking to be in near-mint condition. 1€90 each. Nice complement to my meters.

[Ed.Kloonk]

Bog roll.

No, really. whogivesacrap.org is the place and it's the first time in living memory I've purchased something on the basis of a bloody snailmail circular. I am feeling quite disgusted.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/304239063823

[beanflying]

Time to finally lose my I3 clunker from the fleet of PC's. Got some decent pricing off evilbay plus a stack of small discounts. Already have a power supply and I will Laser cut a case for it again like I did for an earlier 2400G. 3200 CL14 memory was about the best balance of $/performance for what I need.

Conversion is about $465USD equivalent without Tax.

[maginnovision]

After dropping my phone so many times(never broke but scratched) I got a new one, some backups, a tablet and a watch.

[MosherIV]

Took a chance on this old decade box.

So far not looking good. Switches not in good shape.

[PlainName]

Handful of multi-turn dial thingies.

I recall being quite specific about what I wanted and taking some time to get exactly the right ones. But it's taken Aliexpress so long to deliver the things I can't remember why I wanted them 

[RAPo]

I bought a second hand audio generator / counter ag-2603ad.

[Bud]

The EBAZ4205 Zync FPGA board from an ex-miner to play with FPGA . Ali price doubled from a year ago but for $33 delivered in todays chipagedon time it is a steal.

[PlainName]

Barbell clamp.

Not for weight training but as a replacement for the locking collar on my microscope stand. The photo shows the principle, although the real thing would usually have a horizontal bar rather than the head holder being directly mounted. In both cases there is a screw to tighten which locks the fitting to the vertical bar. But then the horizontal part can't swing left or right. So, instead, a collar is fixed to the vertical bar and the horizontal part just sits on that, allowing the head to swing nicely.

Usually this locking collar is fixed or life, but I find the range of adjustment of the head focusing knob is just too small to cope with the full range of PCB holders and stuff. So I often move the locking collar, or think I should be just can't be arsed because it takes three hands: one to hold the head, one to undo the screw and the other to move the collar. This barbell clamp makes it dead easy to adjust the height.

[gamalot]

Another poor man's SMU was delivered this afternoon. It's been over two years without power on, I need to calibrate it and bleach the knob.

[Smokey]

Another poor man's SMU was delivered this afternoon. It's been over two years without power on, I need to calibrate it and bleach the knob.

Affording an Advantest r6243 is an interesting conception of what being poor must be like

[gamalot]

Another poor man's SMU was delivered this afternoon. It's been over two years without power on, I need to calibrate it and bleach the knob.

Affording an Advantest r6243 is an interesting conception of what being poor must be like

Poor or rich is relative, you know a lot of people here have one or more Keithley 24xx or even better SMUs. Sometimes I want to buy a better one too, but anything over A$1000 will be held up by customs and a tax bill sent, and my wife will know what I bought! 

[Miyuki]

Quicko T12-942 Soldering station
Works like a magic. Heats almost instantly and has plenty of power yet the handpiece is minuscule compared to the old conventional.

[shakalnokturn]

Equipment I was too slow at snatching:

Fluke 185 advertised at 20€
Tek THS710A with probes, charger, carrying bag advertised at 30€
I can't really say if they actually sold for that price but they were both working and in great condition and soon went.


Some things bought recently:

Fluke (Pomona?) 40kV multimeter probe, working, 25€ shipped.
IET labs PRS-200 programmable resistance substituer, needs repair, 30€ shipped.
Racal-Thandar (or is it Thurlby-Dana?) 4009 bench DMM, needs repair, 30€ shipped.
Completely unknown 3200 count ATEX DMM, working but needs attention, 30€ shipped.

[boffin]

Sometimes the Craigslist gods just smile on you.  I was looking for more IP Add-A-Drawers; and stumbled on this, complete with the contents... "price FREE"

-- I gave him $40, told him to buy some beer, or donate to the Red Cross for Ukraine/Syrian refugees.

[Cubdriver]

Nice score!  Frustrating how it often seems like it costs more to get something to store the parts in than it does to get the parts, and that unless you pay stupid $$ the storage that is available is crap.

I've been slowly buying various plastic storage boxes from McMaster-Carr over time - they're really nice and I like them for storing bits and pieces, but at typically between $15-20 a pop they add up fast!


-Pat

[TerraHertz]

The latest in high power precision machine tools:

[tautech]

The latest in high power precision machine tools:

Planning to do some dental work THz ? 

[Ed.Kloonk]

The latest in high power precision machine tools:

Planning to do some dental work THz ? 

Piles never stood a chance.