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[MarvinTheMartian]

A nice ebay steal just arrived. Two partial reels of 190 pc each of AVX tantalum caps, 47uF 20v and 4.7uF 25v. Total price? £7.92 for both rolls inc shipping. RS would have shafted me for about £500 for that.

Nicely done! 

[nanofrog]

A nice ebay steal just arrived. Two partial reels of 190 pc each of AVX tantalum caps, 47uF 20v and 4.7uF 25v. Total price? £7.92 for both rolls inc shipping. RS would have shafted me for about £500 for that.

Nice score.  You must've done something right in a previous life.   

[VK5RC]

Now you tell me re the 453, I have one being repaired and it has mind-controlled me to get a donor parts unit!!

[MrSlack]

Now you tell me re the 453, I have one being repaired and it has mind-controlled me to get a donor parts unit!!

You are now officially doomed

[AF6LJ]

A nice ebay steal just arrived. Two partial reels of 190 pc each of AVX tantalum caps, 47uF 20v and 4.7uF 25v. Total price? £7.92 for both rolls inc shipping. RS would have shafted me for about £500 for that.

Nicely done! 

I totally Agree GooD Deal.

[ElektroQuark]

Quote from: plazma on May 26, 2016, 19:11:28

200ml of Galden LS-230. 90€ with shipping.
I'm going to try it with an induction hot plate and an asparagus pot.
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Where did you buy it?

[AF6LJ]

Quote from: plazma on May 26, 2016, 19:11:28

200ml of Galden LS-230. 90€ with shipping.
I'm going to try it with an induction hot plate and an asparagus pot.
>

Where did you buy it?

Okay so I have to ask.........
What is that stuff??

[nanofrog]

Okay so I have to ask.........
What is that stuff??

It's an inert, fluorinated fluid used for vapor phase soldering (digits in the P/N is the boiling point).

There's an entire thread on it here if you're curious. 

[AF6LJ]

Okay so I have to ask.........
What is that stuff??

It's an inert, fluorinated fluid used for vapor phase soldering (digits in the P/N is the boiling point).

There's an entire thread on it here if you're curious. 

Thanks Very Cool.

[japasetelagoas]

My tweezers from Aliexpress finally arrived. A decent shipping time for such a complicated customs department as Brazil has. 9 bucks for the entire kit including shipping.

I can barely buy two tweezers with that much money on some Brazilian electronics online stores, 23 more electronics orders to arrive from Ali.

[plazma]

Quote from: plazma on May 26, 2016, 19:11:28

200ml of Galden LS-230. 90€ with shipping.
I'm going to try it with an induction hot plate and an asparagus pot.
>

Where did you buy it?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/100mL-Galden-LS-230-fur-Dampfphasenloten-/301970961644?

The price went down to 29€ for 100ml!
I paid 90€ for 200ml including shipping to Finland.

[DTJ]

My tweezers from Aliexpress finally arrived. A decent shipping time for such a complicated customs department as Brazil has. 9 bucks for the entire kit including shipping.

I can barely buy two tweezer with that much money on some Brazilian electronics online stores, 23 more electronics orders to arrive from Ali.

They look great - do you have a link you could share to the vendor?

Are they  magnetic at all?

Nothing worse than small SMD passives sticking to your tweezers!

[japasetelagoas]

My tweezers from Aliexpress finally arrived. A decent shipping time for such a complicated customs department as Brazil has. 9 bucks for the entire kit including shipping.

I can barely buy two tweezers with that much money on some Brazilian electronics online stores, 23 more electronics orders to arrive from Ali.

They look great - do you have a link you could share to the vendor?

Are they  magnetic at all?

Nothing worse than small SMD passives sticking to your tweezers!

Hey DTJ,
There you have it:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/6pcs-set-high-quality-china-hand-tools-Antistatic-ESD-high-precision-eyelash-extension-Stainless-steel-tweezers/32334677641.html

I still haven't taken them to my lab so I can't really state how magnetic they are. I do have some magnets laying around, I'll let you know about it as soon as I check.

[plazma]

How is the quality? All Chinese tweezers I have are quite bad. No use for 0201.

[antonc]

Off topic, but related - I've been using Aramex Global Shopper for Itead and Seeed PCB orders. Averages about R150.00 for shipping, takes (at most) a week.

On Friday, I received orders for 2 of my Generator Autostart ATS Control Panels.
Spent some time on Saturday, and most of this afternoon completing the board layout.

then this evening I Just spent over ZAR700 (about a tank of petrol) with ITEADSTUDIO
for 10 off 10x10cm Prototype PCB's
Most of the cost was for the DHL shipping.

I just couldn't wait 4 months for the standard shipping.

Now I have my fingers crossed that they will arrive in 2 weeks!

P

[Falkra]

I just bought this air compressor.

8 bar, 2L tank (no oil), 1100W, 1,5 hp, 195 l/min.
It is really loud, but useful when I need to remove dust from some old dirty, dusty and sometimes crusty boards, fans, computer cases.
I paid around 120 euros, it may be a lot, but now I don't need all tiny - and too expensive - air dusters (aerosol sprays).

[McBryce]

I just bought this air compressor.

8 bar, 2L tank (no oil), 1100W, 1,5 hp, 195 l/min.
It is really loud, but useful when I need to remove dust from some old dirty, dusty and sometimes crusty boards, fans, computer cases.
I paid around 120 euros, it may be a lot, but now I don't need all tiny - and too expensive - air dusters (aerosol sprays).

It's not that expensive if you consider that a can of Air-duster will cost about €10, so 12 cans (a years worth in my world) costs the same. So after 12 months you're saving money.

McBryce.

[BFX]

Some HF staff

[vinicius.jlantunes]

Bought one of these DDS modules:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-SET-DDS-Function-Signal-Generator-Sine-Square-Sawtooth-Triangle-Wave-NEW-/331616581310?hash=item4d35e376be

I didn't have high expectations of course, but it's much worst then I thought... the software in particular. The actual frequency is half of what you choose, the menu system is really stupid, it's reaaaaaly slow, etc etc...
I wonder if anyone ever wrote better firmware for it? I tried to find it here in the forum with no success, but I didn't have many ideas on how to search for such thing.

[japasetelagoas]

My SMD rework station arrived !
It used to be made by a company called Toyo here in Brazil but for some reason they transitioned to this new brand. Even when I bought it at the webstore it was still named as Toyo. It pretty much pairs up with Hakko from what I've read on Brazilian forums.







Took this PIC24F and a few other components off just to get a hold on it. Need to be confident before attempting to swap a capacitor inside my old Macbook Pro, watched a bunch of Louis Rossmann's videos but still unsure on how much flux to use.





On the equipment side:

[japasetelagoas]

My tweezers from Aliexpress finally arrived. A decent shipping time for such a complicated customs department as Brazil has. 9 bucks for the entire kit including shipping.

I can barely buy two tweezers with that much money on some Brazilian electronics online stores, 23 more electronics orders to arrive from Ali.

They look great - do you have a link you could share to the vendor?

Are they  magnetic at all?

Nothing worse than small SMD passives sticking to your tweezers!

Just tried them on some SMD resistors and caps, they only got stuck due to some solder residue I believe. After it cooled down I picked them up several times and they always dropped down once I let it loose. For that little money, a good deal IMHO.

[DTJ]

I can barely buy two tweezers with that much money on some Brazilian electronics online stores, 23 more electronics orders to arrive from Ali.

Do you have a link to the aliexpress vendor you could share? Thanks!

[nowlan]

He gave this link a few posts up.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/6pcs-set-high-quality-china-hand-tools-Antistatic-ESD-high-precision-eyelash-extension-Stainless-steel-tweezers/32334677641.html

[DTJ]

He gave this link a few posts up.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/6pcs-set-high-quality-china-hand-tools-Antistatic-ESD-high-precision-eyelash-extension-Stainless-steel-tweezers/32334677641.html

Awesome - I can't see for looking. Thanks for that! 


Edit - I've just ordered, looks like a good deal.

[nowlan]

My friend poo poo'd the ESD claim, need to be black coated not stainless steel. I guess wrist strap required.