welcome back.
Only a short detour into politics and guns which thankgodOdin could be stopped short.
There was word Sunday that bd seemed to be MIA. Has he been on and if not, has someone tossed him a "what's up?" PM?
Hello all. tautech prodded me via email directly. Life turned upside down here. Don't want to detail on public forum so will reply to PMs / post something on discord. I am not going insane and haven't killed anyone
Also I don't get forum PM notifications because I'm using outlook.com and the forum email is borked to any outlook.com recipients. Argh. Also I didn't put the eevblog forum password in keepass so it didn't make it over to the mac when I migrated. Have just fixed that mess and logged in quick.
Hello all. tautech prodded me via email directly. Life turned upside down here. Don't want to detail on public forum so will reply to PMs / post something on discord. I am not going insane and haven't killed anyone
Also I don't get forum PM notifications because I'm using outlook.com and the forum email is borked to any outlook.com recipients. Argh. Also I didn't put the eevblog forum password in keepass so it didn't make it over to the mac when I migrated. Have just fixed that mess and logged in quick.
Here ya go med... It kindof got buried in all the on topic stuff over the last few daze...
mnem
HP scope : seller just replied to me. Said it would silly to ship the scope to me, given what part of the country I live in, for recycling !!!
I guess what that means is that he did not put it up for sale thinking someone would restore it, but was rather thinking someone LOCAL would pick it up to recycle the metallic chassis or something ?! So he must have though it would silly, counter productive, to recycle it, yet pollute like hell to transport it to me at the other end of France. Makes sense when you see it that way !
So, I replied to him that I meant to restore it, not recycle it !!! And that I dared to think that prolonging the life, resurrecting, a device, is much better for the planet that destroying it to recycle it's metal !!!
I don't know if he will bother replying to that... probably not.... oh well, I tried my best ....
HP scope : seller just replied to me. Said it would silly to ship the scope to me, given what part of the country I live in, for recycling !!!
I guess what that means is that he did not put it up for sale thinking someone would restore it, but was rather thinking someone LOCAL would pick it up to recycle the metallic chassis or something ?! So he must have though it would silly, counter productive, to recycle it, yet pollute like hell to transport it to me at the other end of France. Makes sense when you see it that way !
So, I replied to him that I meant to restore it, not recycle it !!! And that I dared to think that prolonging the life, resurrecting, a device, is much better for the planet that destroying it to recycle it's metal !!!
I don't know if he will bother replying to that... probably not.... oh well, I tried my best ....
Besides, if it's an old scope with tubes he probably pulled them all out anyway.
So the Solartron has lived a life of travel it seems. Made in the UK, Calibrated in Washington State @ Fluke, Worked in South Australia for Defense Research, Moved to Western Australia followed by a 4000km move to me. Time for a life of luxury and semi retirement.
Wonder if it left Oz for work in the USA after DRCS or before and then came back
Oh my dear Bean, there is no problem there.
As I was settling it into the car, she put in an order for me to make her a jig saw puzzle. I told her it wouldn't be big, showing the working area and she replied "That's OK, you could still get 500 pieces in that".
My response was silence. I knew there was only one way this would play out.
There was word Sunday that bd seemed to be MIA. Has he been on and if not, has someone tossed him a "what's up?" PM?
There was word Sunday that bd seemed to be MIA. Has he been on and if not, has someone tossed him a "what's up?" PM?
There was word Sunday that bd seemed to be MIA. Has he been on and if not, has someone tossed him a "what's up?" PM?
So, this got me thinking about replacing the display, just to make it nearly like new again. The new CRT's are getting hard to find, but I am considering the LCD retrofit kit offered by Simmconnlabs.
http://www.simmconnlabs.com/1401/10001.html
Has anyone had any experience with the New Scope Jr LCD kits they offer?
Well, fleabay has found a new way to irritate me. Many, but not all, of my standard searches now display the image shown below at the top of the results. Given how relevant their "we thought you might like this similar thing" suggestions aren't, do they really think I'll trust them to determine what I'm not interested in?
Yes, exactly my thinking. Everything T&M sits on a dedicated remote switch, so does my ham transmitter gear plus shackPC. The third group is my "experiments/building table". The latter one also has a local big red emergency power off button.
Better safe than 🚑🧯
Wilko
Well, fleabay has found a new way to irritate me. Many, but not all, of my standard searches now display the image shown below at the top of the results. Given how relevant their "we thought you might like this similar thing" suggestions aren't, do they really think I'll trust them to determine what I'm not interested in?Never seen that before, but looking at it, I can't help but wonder if you have some international searches set up? If so I'm kinda wondering if this is an attempt at stopping eBay having to act as VAT collector on imported items? Are the "most relevant listings" all UK ones by any chance?
Question for the group;
I have a very nicely optioned and fully functional HP 8920A I picked up a few years back. It measures surprisingly close to my other test equipment and the display is not in too bad of shape, only a bit of burn in and reasonably bright. I've done the periodic cal, but I was interested in the full all parameters cal and adjustment, turns out, Keysight will still perform the full production cal and adjustment. This morning I packed it up and sent it off to Roseville. I bet I will be the only kid on my block with a fully factory calibrated HP 8920A! Ill report back on the cal data once its returned.
Side note. I lost track of the custom molded foam shipping box I received the 8920A in. The UPS store wanted an insane amount of $ to package it and ship. Then checked at a FedEx store and they offered the foam molding packaging. The box and molding cost me $22, they packaged it right in front of me and its solid.
The full cal from Keysight is worth it to me, I have been using mine for work recently and want to get it done before Keysight decides not to offer this service anymore. So, this got me thinking about replacing the display, just to make it nearly like new again. The new CRT's are getting hard to find, but I am considering the LCD retrofit kit offered by Simmconnlabs.
http://www.simmconnlabs.com/1401/10001.html
Has anyone had any experience with the New Scope Jr LCD kits they offer?