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[gamalot]

Hioki 3333 single phase power meter. I realized that it was small, but I didn't expect it to be so small. 

[BravoV]

Hioki 3333 single phase power meter. I realized that it was small, but I didn't expect it to be so small. 

Damn, I'm sooo jealous, I hate you. 

Nice score  , have been lurking and stalking this particular thing that with the right price for quite long time, but still no luck. 

[Fsck]

12 sticks of 16GB RDIMMs for a total of 192GB of memory for a dual westmere system I'm building.
memtesting large amounts of memory takes forever.

[beanflying]

Free Energy harvesting device

Runs on just air and water. Just take your water pass it through the magic 3.5kW 19L boiler and presto 'free energy' 

https://youtu.be/sV6oiuq3xKo

[DC1MC]

Got some golden fork-spades for my soon to be test leads for solartron, some strange conjoined banana plugs and sockets, some Schrumpfschlauch (try to say this quickly 3 times as a non German    ), a thingie to form the leaded components leads for placing them on the PCB, some parts to restore my Datron, including a very cheap calibration key with two keys (who wants some keys let me knoe), and more teflon coated wire that I'll ever need, in a bitter fight on the one and only active German seller of this stuff, if I bid against you, please PM me to do a "prisoner exchange" with the sizes we've both missed.

Speaking of forks-spades, does anyboy know of a reasonably good crimping tool for them that doesen't cost more than the instrument and the forks together, like the Swiss beauty recommended in Metrology forum that's for rich people ?

 Cheers,
 DC1MC

EDIT: Forgot to add the picture.

[vk6zgo]

Got some golden fork-spades for my soon to be test leads for solartron, some strange conjoined banana plugs and sockets, some Schrumpfschlauch (try to say this quickly 3 times as a non German    ),

Sounds like an insulting nickname for Don Trump!

a thingie to form the leaded components leads for placing them on the PCB, some parts to restore my Datron, including a very cheap calibration key with two keys (who wants some keys let me knoe), and more teflon coated wire that I'll ever need, in a bitter fight on the one and only active German seller of this stuff, if I bid against you, please PM me to do a "prisoner exchange" with the sizes we've both missed.

Speaking of forks-spades, does anyboy know of a reasonably good crimping tool for them that doesen't cost more than the instrument and the forks together, like the Swiss beauty recommended in Metrology forum that's for rich people ?

 Cheers,
 DC1MC

Interesting about forks-spades.
When I was young, "spade" normally referred to the "fork" type in Australia, but over time "spade" has come to mean the automotive type connectors with the flat rectangular tongue to fit into a matching female connector

[gamalot]

Hioki 3333 single phase power meter. I realized that it was small, but I didn't expect it to be so small. 

Damn, I'm sooo jealous, I hate you. 

Nice score  , have been lurking and stalking this particular thing that with the right price for quite long time, but still no luck. 

You can try Japanese Yahoo auction, I found my Hioki 3333 there. 

[Specmaster]

I just purchased this battery grip for my Canon DSLR and some batteries for it.

[MosherIV]

Strictly speaking, not electronics related but fun.



One of those lucky cats that wave a paw.
(I am on holiday in Hong Kong, I like cats and I am of Chinese decent)

[0xdeadbeef]

I kinda always thought these "lucky cats" are of Japanese origin ("Maneki-neko").

[gamalot]

I kinda always thought these "lucky cats" are of Japanese origin ("Maneki-neko").

Yes, they are. 

[wkb]

Got some golden fork-spades for my soon to be test leads for solartron, some strange conjoined banana plugs and sockets, some Schrumpfschlauch (try to say this quickly 3 times as a non German    ),

Sounds like an insulting nickname for Don Trump!

No, by that comparison you are insulting perfectly civilised polyolefin 

[Kjelt]

I could not find the right swivel the other day in my box full off swivels. Mostly the small ones where gone so I just filled the inventory back up. When ordering I noticed they have swivels with cable guidance attached, nice did not have them. Also some tiewrap attachment thingies. And a Wiha MaxxSor anti kickback hammer.

[Terry01]

I got these delivered today!

I decided to give the Diamond sharpener a go as opposed to the usual whetstone.

I also decided to give the Chem Wik a try as i have been using the 5 rolls for £3 stuff from China with mixed results! I will report the success or failure of both products later today!

 

[BravoV]

50 meters of RG8 equivalent Leoni coaxial cable, with stranded core with 7 x 0.85mm bare copper, for GPSDO antenna.

[bob225]

I got these delivered today!

I decided to give the Diamond sharpener a go as opposed to the usual whetstone.

I also decided to give the Chem Wik a try as i have been using the 5 rolls for £3 stuff from China with mixed results! I will report the success or failure of both products later today!

Been down this road many times, I end up back with the Servisol Soldamop its not cheap but works 100%

[Terry01]

I got these delivered today!

I decided to give the Diamond sharpener a go as opposed to the usual whetstone.

I also decided to give the Chem Wik a try as i have been using the 5 rolls for £3 stuff from China with mixed results! I will report the success or failure of both products later today!

Been down this road many times, I end up back with the Servisol Soldamop its not cheap but works 100%

Thanks for sharing.

I will give this Chem Wik stuff a try and see how I go. If it's not reliable i'll give your stuff a try.
In fact I will order a roll anyways on the strength of a recommendation. Which 1 do you use? I see it prices from around £5 right up to £20?
I am still trying different ones trying to find 1 to stick with. As you'll know it's handy stuff for a quick couple of joints that need de-soldered or whatever. The Chinese stuff is a complete hit or miss even using a decent flux with it. I suppose you get what you pay for the same as everything else.

[bob225]

1.5 and 2.5mm for testing purposes the small rolls are fine, 10m is £13 ish from rapid electronics (also listed in there ebay shop)

Flow a bit of fresh solder into the joint then wick it away, a dab of a flux pen on smd's helps with the wicking under the chip

[Terry01]

Cool, thanks for the tip too. I'll order some up and see how I go with it. Hopefully I'll find one that works good for me from the couple I am going to try out.

[nanofrog]

FWIW, Chemtronics (Soder-Wick or Chem-Wik), MG Chemicals, and Multicore (Loctite/Henkel) are decent.

[Terry01]

FWIW, Chemtronics (Soder-Wick or Chem-Wik), MG Chemicals, and Multicore (Loctite/Henkel) are decent.

It's the Chem Wik one I have now so that may be good enough. I have heard others saying it is ok too, that's what made me pick that particular brand to try. We'll see. I'll message back here once I've used it.

[djos]

Just bought a 2nd hand HP N40L MicroServer from Gumtree as spare parts for my N36L which suffered a power supply failure yesterday. It also came with 8GB of ram so my M36L got a ram upgrade as well as a new PSU. 

it required a full teardown and significant dust removal on the workbench 1st! I also tore down the PSU and cleaned it plus lubed the fan to ensure it doesnt die too (fan fail is what killed the original).


but now my server is back up and running!


I've already had to order a Noctua NF-A4x10 40mm fan to replace it tho because the OEM fan is insanely loud, the old N36L fan was never this noisy (my server lives in my study)! 

[GreyWoolfe]

I got one of these off of swip-swop today for $15 just a couple of miles from home.  I finally have all my Dremel accessories organized.  The best part was that SWMBO found it for me.  Mrs. GreyWoolfe does a great job of taking care of me!

[VK5RC]

A sign of a mature marriage,  " don't ask, don't tell" HiHi!
I don't ask about her shoes, she doesn't ask about my electronics /radios!

[rdl]

Those are surprisingly capable and useful little computers. I have two, an N54L running FreeNAS and an N36L with WHS (which spends most of it time turned off these days). I haven't had any trouble with the '54 but the power supply fan in the '36 developed a very loud whine after a few years. I've kept it quiet by oiling it every year or so. I bought a replacement fan last time, but as long as oiling continues to work I'll save the fan.

Just bought a 2nd hand HP N40L MicroServer from Gumtree as spare parts for my N36L which suffered a power supply failure yesterday. It also came with 8GB of ram so my M36L got a ram upgrade as well as a new PSU. 
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