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[BravoV]

Couldn't stand the temptation as its NIB. 






Unscratched BNC connector. 

-> Teardown

[ChrisLX200]

Arrived this afternoon - replacement stock of 4mm binding posts from China, and a pair of Schmitz carbide cutters from Germany. The cutters appear to be well finished - far more impressed by that than the finish on the Knipex cutters I received a few days ago. Whatever, both will do their job regardless of polish and fine grinding   These Schmitz cutters are smaller and more suitable for intricate PCB work, they are obviously going to be more delicate due to the narrow tips so must be treated with consideration. Photos taken with iPhone+DIY macro lens



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[nanofrog]

...[snip]...a pair of Schmitz carbide cutters from Germany. The cutters appear to be well finished - far more impressed by that than the finish on the Knipex cutters I received a few days ago. Whatever, both will do their job regardless of polish and fine grinding   These Schmitz cutters are smaller and more suitable for intricate PCB work, they are obviously going to be more delicate due to the narrow tips so must be treated with consideration.

Those cutters should serve you well. Enjoy. 

[Terry01]

That's a nice set of snips Chris! I'm sure they will serve you well. They look real good quality. 

[GerryBags]

Two Dallas DS1225Y's turned up today, along with the SMD Panasonic caps and some Quikchip alloy to tackle my two 2400 series 'scopes. Already recapped one control board, I just need the programmer to turn up now.

[Smokey]

Arrived this afternoon - replacement stock of 4mm binding posts from China, and a pair of Schmitz carbide cutters from Germany....

Those cutters are THE SCHMITZ!! 

[Ice-Tea]

-25 DS1E-M-12DC relays, to repair a TDS684 (and a few others)

- LED driver, because the IP rating on the orignal was a bad joke

- 100V MOV, because I used a footprint for a 30V MOV going "yeah, I'll modify the P/N as soon as I get to the BOM". Cue fireworks.

- Tube of LM324's because 'student proof' is another bad joke

[bob225]

A rather worse for wear Roberts RM20 - it will either get used for parts or a retro-mod project, I'm not sure yet

[Terry01]

Arrived this afternoon - replacement stock of 4mm binding posts from China, and a pair of Schmitz carbide cutters from Germany....

Those cutters are THE SCHMITZ!! 

Well spotted! LOL 

[tooki]

[...]
 schlepping everything in now that it's after midnight.

schlepping in?    

And another word which finds it's way from German into English. 

Nope. From Yiddish, actually.

It’s one of many English words (especially American English) borrowed from Jewish immigrants.

[VK5RC]

I thought both Middle High German and Yiddish had the word "s(c)hleppen" , it just goes to show how mixed we all are. Languages reflect migration and trade. Rather interestingly it isn't used much in my state.

[tooki]

They probably did. But English didn’t get it from Middle High German, English got it from Yiddish.

[julianhigginson]

well, I had an ambitious best offer request on ebay accepted today, so it looks like I'm going to be able to generate some pretty serious V/m action in my little TEM cell soon.... A shame it's only 500MHz top frequency, but at least it's a start. and it was very cheap for what it is.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Mini-Circuits-RF-Power-Amplifier-Model-ZHL-5w-1-SMA-5-500-Mhz/142778513153

[bob225]

Another 2 Roberts radios R25 in red and a rather sad looking Ric-2

[bob225]

Finally some items for a project

PiTft
Adafruit MAX9744
A pair of 3.3" speakers

[Specmaster]

Just received these to allow existing BNC leads with croc clips to be used on RF signal generator to see how much signal is lost without having to resort impedance matching.

[BFX]

Some Chinese 50ohm 5W terminator.
After measurement I must say not bad.
Good piece to HF collection.

[gamalot]

Micro SD card for my RPi, SSD and SODIMMs for my iMac. 

[cat87]

Had a nice trip yesterday and picked up some old analog video gear.
The part numbers are:
Tektronix vm700 t video measurement unit
Philips pm5651 studio vits generator
Panasonic HHSA500 D/A converter
Shibasoku AS953b tv sound signal generator
Astro VG828 digital video generator
Philips PM5680 if generator
And what looks like a home-built power supply....apparently actually made by Philips

Pictures will follow soon...have to convert them to something less than 2M 

[cat87]

There we go.

[HecticZA]

Smd soldering practice kit and some cheap tweezers.
Both ordered months ago.

Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

[BravoV]

1st M.2 NVME drive, all this time always SSD type, Samsung PM961, and the right tool to install. 

[julianhigginson]

rigol DG1022Z. My first bit of rigol gear.

not a bad little function generator. Did its thing I needed it for with no hassles.  the only thing that would have been nice would be a BNC to alligator clip lead in the package.. that would have been more useful than the bnc to bnc it came with.

I wonder if the constant banner ad that's recently been up the top of the forum here is what swayed me?

[Seph.b]

Smd soldering practice kit and some cheap tweezers.

I have those exact same tweezers and I think they are pretty good. I am sure more expensive ones are nicer, but those have never sent a component flying across the room.

[Specmaster]

Smd soldering practice kit and some cheap tweezers.

I have those exact same tweezers and I think they are pretty good. I am sure more expensive ones are nicer, but those have never sent a component flying across the room.

I was just about to write the same reply.