Arrived this morning: Xiaomi case containing 24 Wiha bits.
https://www.gearbest.com/screwdriver-screwdriver-set/pp_696715.html
To go with my ES120 battery screwdriver that only ships with two very small bits.Is that actually Xiaomi or Wiha? It sounds like slapping a few brands with a good reputation on a box, especially considering the provenance. I could very well be wrong, though.
Regardless, it's a good looking set.
Apparently, it's real. Very nice. Two under appreciated brands with a lot of bang for buck.
https://www.wiha.com/en/press-reports/detail/wiha-proud-of-co-branding-partnership-with-chinese-smartphone-manufacturer-xiaomi/
Arrived this morning: Xiaomi case containing 24 Wiha bits.
https://www.gearbest.com/screwdriver-screwdriver-set/pp_696715.html
To go with my ES120 battery screwdriver that only ships with two very small bits.
That is a very cool screwdriver !
I just picked up from my local surplus store an HP 3466A bench DMM for the princely sum of $30 USD. It had been sitting for a couple of weeks and I found out why. The test leads I brought and the test leads they had there were loose in the jacks. I was able to test the meter by squeezing the leads in the jacks together a little. I also replaced the plugs on the set of leads I am going to use with a set of plugs from Frankie's eBay store. You can see how clean the meter is, I just touched the bezel with IPA where the price tag was. The meter works fine on and DCV but there is odd behavior on ACV. When I press the button for ACV the indicator goes to instead of V, which it does when I press DCV. I am very leery of trying to measure ACV There is nothing in the manual that I could find indicating whether or not this happens. If anyone has this meter, does your meter do the same? It isn't a big deal. It will be used for working on company equipment where I will use DCV and settings, no ACV.
I ordered two 20mm plates of acrylic glass today to be used as the support for the console above my bench where all my boatanchors reside on.
Something has to be done:
Don't worry, it's still safe because it still deformes/swings elastically, so it won't break all at once.
It's so much out of the horizontal position because the support (the near triangular plate underneath the console) has rotated around the middle of its three mounting screws. And that was possible because the drilling holes are a bit larger than the screws diameter.
I plan to use the plates as a support that sits on the bench surface so that the 40mmx40mm Aluminium posts don't have to bear all the weight alone. I'll substitute the 40mmx40mm (2mm thickness) Aluminium posts with steel ones of the same size but 3mm thickness also.
If I take into consideration that nearly my whole test equipment is sitting up there it's no wonder it turned that way:
Three HP linear system power supplies (2x6643A,1x6632B), two HP 3488A, two HP 3456A voltmeters, one HP 3457A Multimeter, one Knick Calibrator (full width), one HP LCR Meter, three Fluke counters, two Philips Multimeters (PM2534/2535), one classic Tube Oscilloscope and a HP3437 System Voltmeter, my GPIB Cable stock plus the unavoidable junk everyone collects at his lab bench..
I just picked up from my local surplus store an HP 3466A bench DMM for the princely sum of $30 USD. It had been sitting for a couple of weeks and I found out why. The test leads I brought and the test leads they had there were loose in the jacks. I was able to test the meter by squeezing the leads in the jacks together a little. I also replaced the plugs on the set of leads I am going to use with a set of plugs from Frankie's eBay store. You can see how clean the meter is, I just touched the bezel with IPA where the price tag was. The meter works fine on and DCV but there is odd behavior on ACV. When I press the button for ACV the indicator goes to instead of V, which it does when I press DCV. I am very leery of trying to measure ACV There is nothing in the manual that I could find indicating whether or not this happens. If anyone has this meter, does your meter do the same? It isn't a big deal. It will be used for working on company equipment where I will use DCV and settings, no ACV.I have this same model of meter in my collection and the answer is no, it does not do this and neither should it. Does the correct LED light up on DCV, it should be either mV or V depending on if the meter is in auto or a manual range has been selected.
However I think that this more likely down to dirty switch contacts or a bad connection inside somewhere.
I ordered two 20mm plates of acrylic glass today to be used as the support for the console above my bench where all my boatanchors reside on.Just because I'm curious, how did acrylic get to be the solution of choice? That doesn't seem to be the cheapest or best load bearing solution.
Yes I do like the meter a lot, its not my goto meter for everyday use however that duty tends to fall to my Iso-Tech IDM-203. Has yours got the battery option or is it just a plain 3466?
The meter itself is very easy to strip down and gives you complete access to the switches. There is a service manual on line that you can download for free, just google it.
I use it really when I need some extra accuracy or when I'm doing a worth while project that will take a bit of time to do, I also have a Fluke 8505A that gives me 6.5 digit accuracy but that is a beast of meter that takes up about 5 times the space on the bench that the 3466A does so it does not get used that often.
I think it will do just fine but it might be an idea to try and brace the edges of the top shelf with some steel strips or angle iron back to the main vertical support because you say that you're going to be reusing the triangular plates that are there now, on the bottom? If you could get some steel strips to make a sort of triangular frame, it would benefit and help prevent your kit crashing to the bench or the floor if the glass should fail. The strips would not block any light in real terms either.
Oh well if their only MDF, I think the acrylic glass will just fine as they will be sitting on the bench top and attached to the top shelf at the edges and hopefully also at the centre support.
Oh well if their only MDF, I think the acrylic glass will just fine as they will be sitting on the bench top and attached to the top shelf at the edges and hopefully also at the centre support.One problem of acrylic is that it tends to shatter, rather than gradually yield. Though thicker sheets may me better behaved.