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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
mnementh:
--- Quote from: tautech on May 20, 2018, 12:59:29 am ---(SNIP)
And fair enough too. :)
But let's look a little harder at this common and historical design, it requires quality and well spec'ed componentry, something the bean counters for decades have strived to reduce BOM cost on. PSU's, caps, in fact most component ratings are pushed to high % limits these days and maybe using modern components they'd be more reliable but it doesn't negate the fact LCD displays are now much cheaper to make than a CRT.
Watch this and tell me that isn't so :P
(SNIP)
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You know something else we see in this video? Aside from it being a showcase of high-technology precision manufacturing, we see people... lots of them (and interestingly, a large percentage of them women ;)), gainfully employed, doing work that requires skill and patience. Fueling a good work ethic, and fueling the economy.
This is the precise opposite of the bean counters' goal; which is to reduce all jobs to monkey work so that skill has no value therefore demands as little pay as possible, and then if possible, to replace those monkeys with machines that require no paycheck at all.
Fuck the bean-counters. And fuck the people who think the beans are all that matters. The only place that is true is when you're making coffee.
mnem
And chocolate... mmmmmm.... chocolate. :P
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 20, 2018, 08:22:49 am ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on May 20, 2018, 12:43:40 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 19, 2018, 11:16:53 pm ---To quote a friend of mine who was dating a girl in Billericay; "Essex made me itchy". All is not forgiven yet :-DD
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"I come from Essex,
In case you couldn't tell.
My given name is Richard,
And I'm doing ... very well."
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Couldn't agree more, I feel much safer in Essex then I would / do in London area for instance. I have worked all over the London area for the last 35 plus years and never once felt at risk, however that is not the case these days for a whole host of reasons.
I'm afraid it's the same situation though, it's the minority who spoil it for the majority. Because of the authorities inability to deal with those people effectively, I don't see things getting better anytime soon. [emoji850]
From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]
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Ah, you've missed it. Perhaps you're not of quite the right generation (although for some reason we all seem to be remarkably close in age). That's Ian Dury's spoken intro to the song "Billericay Dickie".
GerryBags:
While I'm waiting for bits, I finally got round to sorting out the time-base knob on the 2465B. It had been sheared off where the grub screw bit on the shaft. I drilled the shaft, pinned it with a length of brass micro-tube which got the ends squished flat and was bonded in with vinyl superglue (PC-80). I drilled out a length of styrene rod , heated the squished end of the pin a little and glued that on with the PC-80 too. That's the white section. It was much easier this way than dismantling the front panel and replacing the shaft, and it seems plenty strong enough. A tap on the end gives a single, solid response from the shaft as a whole. I'm happy, even if it does show up the bromine on the older plastic a bit.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 20, 2018, 09:45:17 am ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 20, 2018, 09:31:29 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 20, 2018, 09:12:14 am ---Terrorism is minor compared to other crimes.
Also I think you need to read up on the drug dealers in Essex. I used to go out with one :)
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Crime is everywhere, but so far we don't have moped gangs etc, shootings are very rare etc.
SWMBO works in Crown Court so I'm only to aware of what happens around here, and according to what the media reports and I hear locally, there is no doubt about it London is the crime capital.
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That's because there's more people
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I'd say no. I'd say that it's perceived as such because the media are so London-centric. If there's a shooting in London it gets reported on the national 6 O'clock news, if it's in, say, Newcastle (upon Tyne) it doesn't. Do you recall any news reports of shootings in London this year? Probably yes. Do you recall any news reports of shootings in Newcastle this year? Probably no. Now Google "shooting Newcastle".
bd139:
Good point. No one gives a shit about anywhere other than London then :D
--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 20, 2018, 03:23:35 pm ---While I'm waiting for bits, I finally got round to sorting out the time-base knob on the 2465B. It had been sheared off where the grub screw bit on the shaft. I drilled the shaft, pinned it with a length of brass micro-tube which got the ends squished flat and was bonded in with vinyl superglue (PC-80). I drilled out a length of styrene rod , heated the squished end of the pin a little and glued that on with the PC-80 too. That's the white section. It was much easier this way than dismantling the front panel and replacing the shaft, and it seems plenty strong enough. A tap on the end gives a single, solid response from the shaft as a whole. I'm happy, even if it does show up the bromine on the older plastic a bit.
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That looks really neat. Nice job with the fix :-+ . When I see things in that state it usually puts me off.
Did some tests with my Keysight U1241C to see what lies there are in the spec sheet. It quotes only 2KHz AC bandwidth and 15MHz frequency measurement. I just measured it 100% flat to 66KHz. 3dB point is 145KHz. Will read still frequency to about 22MHz. Well done Keysight. Way over spec.
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