Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[mnementh]

Pitty i was not in GuestLab in Dave's MailBag last week....
But now my channel showed up on his screen, in the center, by change in his last video :-)



around 2 minutes 

Congrats Tony!

Lets hope Dave gives you props directly sometime soon... you deserve it. Your enthusiasm and proliferant content-creation really are one of the more interesting new additions to the TEA thread, which is one of eevBlog's busiest. 

mnem
 

[mnementh]

There's no bad German beer in general.      If in doubt it is always just and only the last beer that's bad..      

Hier. Geht aufs Haus.      

Do you work in a brewery then?

No. I don't like beer at all. "Geht aufs Haus" means simply: "Here, have one for free."

Arh, Google translates that to "Here. It is for free." hence my question. Good as google is, a slight variation can have a massive difference in the true meaning.

The google translation is correct in a more general sense. In this case it is just meant for this single bottle, because it is very unlikely, that URI wants to have another one.      

*blerk*

It's all still horse pee. They're just detailing the species and color of equine the pee came from... 

mnem
*agitating-ily*

[tonyalbus]

Pitty i was not in GuestLab in Dave's MailBag last week....
But now my channel showed up on his screen, in the center, by change in his last video :-)



around 2 minutes 

Congrats Tony!

Lets hope Dave gives you props directly sometime soon... you deserve it. Your enthusiasm and proliferant content-creation really are one of the more interesting new additions to the TEA thread, which is one of eevBlog's busiest. 

mnem
 

Thanks mnem 

[med6753]

Well while you guys are sitting around the table getting drunk on cheap beer and discussing the merits of old TE vs new TE I've actually been working on (old) TE. Finally was able to get back on the Type 310A. Been a very long time since I've seen cardboard encased Cornell Dubilier axial electrolytics. This guy has about 5 of them scattered about. These sort of cheapo caps are usually seen on consumer gear. I'm surprised to see them here. But not for long. They are all going in the trash.

Once all the electrolytics have been excised then turn my attention to the Sprague paper tubulars. About a dozen of those POS.

[mnementh]

 

MAXIM #9. Capacitors are Murphy's footsoldiers.

mnem
 

[Fungus]

try Störtebeker beer (out of Stralsund). It is said to be of very high quality.
I am no suitable judge in that matter as the doc said that I am not allowed to drink beer, wine, champagne.
He did ok rum, vodka, tequila, wiski, tho.

Störtebeker makes a reasonable non-alcoholic one. Haven't tried their ordinary one.

The best non-alcoholic German beer I've had was a low alcohol Erdinger Weißbier. Perhaps wheat beers lend themselves better to making non-alcoholic beers than barley ones.

These are quite palatable: https://franziskaner-weissbier.de/unsere-biere/alkoholfrei

[Specmaster]

Arh, yes, I've across quite a few of these cardboard encased Cornell Dubilier axial electrolytics in old amplifiers and radios back in the day, IIRC, it was one of those bastards that exploded all over my parents newly installed polystyrene tiled ceiling. Gosh those tiles were bloody dangerous, but of course, back then, we didn't know what we know now did we

[med6753]

Arh, yes, I've across quite a few of these cardboard encased Cornell Dubilier axial electrolytics in old amplifiers and radios back in the day, IIRC, it was one of those bastards that exploded all over my parents newly installed polystyrene tiled ceiling. Gosh those tiles were bloody dangerous, but of course, back then, we didn't know what we know now did we

That's unusual. Those cardboard CD caps in my experience don't often go short, they just go "dry" and basically open. 

[bd139]

I had one explode as well. They are usually pretty good but that one just hated to exist any longer.

Today I invented a new duovigesimal base encoding to encode unix time stamps into something humans can accurately communicate over the phone using phonetic alphabet with no digit vs character ambiguities or confusion.

As I write this, it is 1601309628 or RCSSXYG o'clock.

Edit: there's a very nice HP 651B oscillator on UK ebay for a reasonable amount of cash at the moment. I am tempted but I am also not tempted 

Edit 2: and the 34401A has gone down to £320 now 

[URI]

try Störtebeker beer (out of Stralsund). It is said to be of very high quality.
I am no suitable judge in that matter as the doc said that I am not allowed to drink beer, wine, champagne.
He did ok rum, vodka, tequila, wiski, tho.

Störtebeker makes a reasonable non-alcoholic one. Haven't tried their ordinary one.

The best non-alcoholic German beer I've had was a low alcohol Erdinger Weißbier.

I second that.   

[AVGresponding]

Edit 2: and the 34401A has gone down to £320 now 

It knows you're watching it

[Cerebus]

I had one explode as well. They are usually pretty good but that one just hated to exist any longer.

Today I invented a new duovigesimal base encoding to encode unix time stamps into something humans can accurately communicate over the phone using phonetic alphabet with no digit vs character ambiguities or confusion.

As I write this, it is 1601309628 or RCSSXYG o'clock.

Edit: there's a very nice HP 651B oscillator on UK ebay for a reasonable amount of cash at the moment. I am tempted but I am also not tempted 

Edit 2: and the 34401A has gone down to £320 now 

With all it's feet and the titling bail no less! I too am tempted but as it doesn't add any capability to what I already have I'm gonna pass too.

[URI]

Edit 2: and the 34401A has gone down to £320 now 

C'mon go get it. -for a short period of time.   
You'll probably be able to sell it for £400 after you got sick of it.      

[tggzzz]

Paypal wants me to input my address (again). My address is
number, road
town
Bristol
postcode
but Bristol is not an option in the "counties" selection box.

Any suggestions?

[Cerebus]

Paypal wants me to input my address (again). My address is
number, road
town
Bristol
postcode
but Bristol is not an option in the "counties" selection box.

Any suggestions?

Get a whole town hating them on Twitter! Only way to get anything fixed nowadays, embarrass the hell out of the company. Once upon a time a quiet "you've made an embarrassing mistake" privately to the company would have been enough...

[Specmaster]

I had one explode as well. They are usually pretty good but that one just hated to exist any longer.

Today I invented a new duovigesimal base encoding to encode unix time stamps into something humans can accurately communicate over the phone using phonetic alphabet with no digit vs character ambiguities or confusion.

As I write this, it is 1601309628 or RCSSXYG o'clock.

Edit: there's a very nice HP 651B oscillator on UK ebay for a reasonable amount of cash at the moment. I am tempted but I am also not tempted 

Edit 2: and the 34401A has gone down to £320 now 

Yeh, I think mine blew up because I had connected it in reverse, I was just a young lad back then, taking my first steps in electronics and learning the hard lessons 

Hmm, just maybe with that 34401A. I might have been right about it being stolen property, hence no power leads or meter probes?

[Specmaster]

Paypal wants me to input my address (again). My address is
number, road
town
Bristol
postcode
but Bristol is not an option in the "counties" selection box.

Any suggestions?

Get a whole town hating them on Twitter! Only way to get anything fixed nowadays, embarrass the hell out of the company. Once upon a time a quiet "you've made an embarrassing mistake" privately to the company would have been enough...

Erm, well last time I looked I don't believe Bristol is a county, its a city AFAIK.

[mnementh]

Bristol
Bristol (/ˈbrɪstəl/ (About this soundlisten)) is a major city and county[4] in South West England with a population of 463,400.[5] The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England.[6] The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK.[2] The city lies between Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. South Wales lies across the Severn estuary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol

mnem
nice pants.

[bd139]

Dang bought another HP supply  .



It's 115V but is 230v compatible.

[Specmaster]

Bristol
Bristol (/ˈbrɪstəl/ (About this soundlisten)) is a major city and county[4] in South West England with a population of 463,400.[5] The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England.[6] The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK.[2] The city lies between Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. South Wales lies across the Severn estuary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol

Er, yeah, I just found that out, Bristol, Bristol seems just as silly to me as New York, New York. It used to be part of Avon and then for some stupid reason, possibly to provide some sort of rigging of votes for electoral advantage, they did away with the county of Avon and split it up.

[Mr. Scram]

I had one explode as well. They are usually pretty good but that one just hated to exist any longer.

Today I invented a new duovigesimal base encoding to encode unix time stamps into something humans can accurately communicate over the phone using phonetic alphabet with no digit vs character ambiguities or confusion.

As I write this, it is 1601309628 or RCSSXYG o'clock.

Edit: there's a very nice HP 651B oscillator on UK ebay for a reasonable amount of cash at the moment. I am tempted but I am also not tempted 

Edit 2: and the 34401A has gone down to £320 now 

34401As are rising in price if anything, you explicitly said Ferengi mode is off and you've been on the prowl for one for years now. There's no excuses to not get it.

[Specmaster]

Dang bought another HP supply  .



It's 115V but is 230v compatible.

:wtf:You need a crowbar to adjust the trimmer 

[bd139]

 

Overvoltage crowbar in this case, a rarely installed option in the HP supplies 

Looks like a fairly late one based on the badge and terminals.

34401As are rising in price if anything, you explicitly said Ferengi mode is off and you've been on the prowl for one for years now. There's no excuses to not get it.

Yeah it's killing me but I genuinely don't need it. Need to get used to running off trash hardware if I want to retire 

[bd139]

Paypal wants me to input my address (again). My address is
number, road
town
Bristol
postcode
but Bristol is not an option in the "counties" selection box.

Any suggestions?

Is Avon in there? Much like Middlesex I still have to use it regularly even though it doesn't exist now.

[Mr. Scram]

Yeah it's killing me but I genuinely don't need it. Need to get used to running off trash hardware if I want to retire 

Prices are going up so you're not spending money, you're saving for your retirement. You get to play with a 34401A and make some sweet dough when you grow tired of it. It's more sensible than leaving your cash to rot in a bank account. I'll bet that's not even 6.5 digits either.