Dishwasher update: E15 all over again. Wife has ordered and paid for a new one, and I've evicted the old one
One for the Vintage Tek fanboys
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132504933736
A NIB P6007 100:1 probe with PL259 connector
Dishwasher update: E15 all over again. Wife has ordered and paid for a new one, and I've evicted the old one
I hope to never see the inside of a Bosch dishwasher again.
Just like with the Japs...
I don't know if you realise, but that there's a racial slur...
Na, just further evidence that Antipodeans feel the need to come up with a two or less syllable shorthand for any word of three or more syllables - I mean, who else would shorten 'afternoon' (and make it easy to confuse with a pear, also shortened because of its terrifying four syllables).
In what alternate universe does "arvo" sound like a pear?
Ohh I forgot!
The UK ---- a universe of its own!
I could imagine that by holding your head "just so", & ignoring the "r", it could be "Avocado Pear" a strange name which is pretty much obsolete everywhere else.
Why not confuse it with a real Avocado, or a multimeter?
Dishwasher update: E15 all over again. Wife has ordered and paid for a new one, and I've evicted the old one
I hope to never see the inside of a Bosch dishwasher again.
The new one, IIRC, is Siemens. Or, it is more correctly another fork on the brand tree known as B/S/H -- Bosch Siemens Haushaltsgeräte.
With the Siemens name, there of course is a TE connection, even if it is very thin, convoluted and completely irrelevant. My resistor standards are made by Volkseigene Betrieb Rundfunktechnik Gerätewerk Karl-Marx-Stadt, formerly known as Siemens & Halske Werk Erfurt.
Siemens still (again) do things in Erfurt, but I don't know if there's a lineage here.
One for the Vintage Tek fanboys
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132504933736
A NIB P6007 100:1 probe with PL259 connector
NOS. Wow.
Todays crazy eBay valuation https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392307906399
I think the original price new was around £500 and has recently been discontinued, so this price is utterly stupid.
That one has been listed and re-listed by them at that price for at least a couple of years now. Not sure the reasoning (if any) behind it.
Pretty much all their other items are similarly stupidly priced.
They also cater to companies who like to have a minimum number of suppliers due to approvals and administration costs.
So I can't give away a TF2730 SA on here but PP auction one for £51 plus mark up plus VAT =£70This one sold for 22 quiddelivered(plus 10 quid packing?) 5 years ago...
https://spheremusic.com/Bargaindtl.asp?Item=15409
Not sure if that makes it better or worse...
mnem
*toddles off to ded*
Well that one was , shipping cost was not specified. The £10 was a packing charge.
As I see, it is a blatant case of profiteering if they think a company is going to pay that money, even with a 2-year warranty when a business buyer could just as easily purchase a new meter for less, and it's not that hard for staff to transition from one meter to another.
Read what Robert wrote, it might be down to procedures. If there is a (medical, aeronautical, whatever) approval for a device that states "DC Battery voltage on Test Point 4711, shall be 28V +/- 10%, as measured by a Frobnitz 6000 Computing Multimeter" we all here can probably stake our lives more or less on that voltage being in-spec using pretty much any of our devices at hand.
But that is not OK, because the protocol says unless the right device is used it is not right.
And the person checking your work is a consultant from Accenture or similar who earns 5 times your pay for being not you ("independent verification"). He knows nothing except that the boxes shall be ticked.
Robert is probably the one of us in here most knowledgeable on this subject, since high-risk specifications written to be implemented by functional idiots (squaddies et al) apparently has been a part of his professional life for some time. If he says so, it probably is so.
And yes, it is profiteering. I fully agree.
They also cater to companies who like to have a minimum number of suppliers due to approvals and administration costs.
I strongly suspect you've hit the nail on the head. When I looked at the original listing I also looked at other things they had listed - which included perfectly ordinary, standard electrical switchgear from the likes of Eaton listed at double or triple what I'd expect to be list price. Stuff that is current manufacture and directly interchangeable with other manufacturer's parts - so no special reason to need just the right part to fit something old or obsolete in a hurry, and unlikely to need anything beyond industry-wide standard approvals that any respectable part would have. If you were however limited on who you could buy it from the crazy pricing makes sense.
I've had to deal with places with that problem, after a while you just give up and let the company spend three times what something is worth just to give yourself a quiet life. Literally the kind of place where to buy a 13A plugtop from a non-approved source you need to send RFQs out to three suppliers, wait for three quotes to come back, wait for purchasing/accounting to do their thing (probably including paying for Dun and Bradstreet reports on the suppliers) and six months later you'd get approval to buy the plug. Or you can say "Fuck it, it's not my money!" and pay £10 + carriage + minimum order charge from a listed, approved supplier.
That... would be an invitation to Murphy.
They will expect you to bring your tools in for more and more stuff; yet when something inevitably goes wrong they will blame you after the fact as your personal tools (which are probably in better nick than any they have, but lack a paper-trail provenance) were used in some procedure related to the failure and it then becomes an excuse to bludgeon you over something else.
"Mistakes were made; others will be blamed." is the management mantra at play here.
mnem
"There's enough misery to go around without grabbing for more." ~grandmomma
...The dilemma now is getting them inside and up the stairs without killing myself. I think my landlord has a hand truck. If not I may rent one.
That... would be an invitation to Murphy.
They will expect you to bring your tools in for more and more stuff; yet when something inevitably goes wrong they will blame you after the fact as your personal tools (which are probably in better nick than any they have, but lack a paper-trail provenance) were used in some procedure related to the failure and it then becomes an excuse to bludgeon you over something else.
"Mistakes were made; others will be blamed." is the management mantra at play here.
mnem
"There's enough misery to go around without grabbing for more." ~grandmomma
The latest incident has me at the point where if work grinds to a halt because of a lack of tools or equipment, I notify everyone involved and stop. My view is that the productivity loss and increased downtime isn't my problem in that kind of situation anymore, not if the answer to the "I can get on the subway, get what we need, come back and resume work" proposal is "no". Either equip the shop for what we need to do, discontinue work that we're not equipped to do, or get what we need when an unexpected surprise comes up. I'm not obligated to bring anything in from home and the only reason I did was to make my own life easier, but I won't be doing that anymore, not after that mess, not after enduring years of "I firmly believe the only thing you need to do your job is your laptop" out of management.
On the other hand, there are plenty of employers out there that require employees provide their own tools and equipment, but employees at places like that get an employer provided tool allowance, and I know a bunch of people who have jobs where that's the case, but that's not the situation at my employer.
Dishwasher update: E15 all over again. Wife has ordered and paid for a new one, and I've evicted the old one
I hope to never see the inside of a Bosch dishwasher again.
The new one, IIRC, is Siemens. Or, it is more correctly another fork on the brand tree known as B/S/H -- Bosch Siemens Haushaltsgeräte.
With the Siemens name, there of course is a TE connection, even if it is very thin, convoluted and completely irrelevant. My resistor standards are made by Volkseigene Betrieb Rundfunktechnik Gerätewerk Karl-Marx-Stadt, formerly known as Siemens & Halske Werk Erfurt.
Siemens still (again) do things in Erfurt, but I don't know if there's a lineage here.Neat, you got a picture of those resistor standards? Not sure about the connection to S&H Erfurt though -
From here the history reads like this:
until '45 it was called "Gebr. Langer KG" and manufactured nuts and bolts
after the war it was part of different Soviet state companys called "SAG"'s, beeing handed from
"SAG Pribor" ("Device"), to "SAG Transmasch" (transport machines), then onto "SAG Kabel" (cable)
When it got back into east german control, it was called "VEB Gerätewerk Karl-Marx-Stadt" from '53 to '70
from '70 onwards it was part of "VEB Messgerätewerk Zwönitz". In '81 it was restructured to still be part
of "VEB Messgerätewerk Zwönitz" but that one now was itself part of the even bigger "VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik".
The "VEB Funkwerk Erfurt" goes back to the tube manufacturing of "Telefunken Röhren und Gerätewerk" -
really not sure how the S&H works fit into this
One for the Vintage Tek fanboys
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132504933736
A NIB P6007 100:1 probe with PL259 connector
NOS. Wow.
More NOS scopes, this time Kenwood, factory sealed seller says -
eBay auction: #165147588151
eBay auction: #255195329284
eBay auction: #255195327258
replacement batteries for the Festool on order, 24 Pesos.
The new one, IIRC, is Siemens.