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bd139:

--- Quote from: mnementh on May 26, 2018, 04:43:44 pm ---OMG... I just flashed on a memory from about the same time; I was messing around with the cover off of the Yaesu FT-101EX I inherited from HB (the M-80 + "You better run!" fellow from that story I recalled a few weeks ago); my buddy Brian and I were futzing around on Children's Band (hey - we WERE kids then) trying to reach his dad doing a long haul in his truck upstate.

I was trying to trim the multiband antenna that came with the rig (imagine your favorite "two buddies drinking story", complete with one of them nose buried in an instruction pamphlet) and he noticed the glowing 6JS finals...

"Hey... whadda these do..."
*I look up just in time to see him pointing towards one shiny exposed anode cap*
"DON'T TOUCH TH..."
*ZZZZZZZZAAAAAAPPPPP!!!*
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" :scared:

Rf burns are the WORST.   :-/O

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Cor that's got some volts in there too!  :scared: ... and if it doesn't kill you it makes you wiser and if it doesn't make you wiser it kills you the next time.

I am personally scared shitless of tube PAs as a family friend and former colleague of my father killed themselves by accident in the 80s on a big ass tube PA. I went to his funeral. At the time I had no idea what had happened but I was banned from playing around with tube kit immediately. I only put two and two together about a decade later and asked about it. Turned out he was repairing a big 1KW RF PA power supply and a stray wire was in the chassis and he touched it. Heart stopped instantly. He was responsible at his company for lab safety ironically.

Personally I'm very much more aware of electrical safety now. You'll regularly find me following strict written procedures when handling even simple kit like little mains linear supplies.  Isolate, attach, power, measure, isolate etc. While you saw a mess in my corner when I was working on that scope, when it was powered, the bench is cleared down thoroughly first etc as well.


--- Quote from: Specmaster on May 26, 2018, 04:39:35 pm ---Just got back from Clacton, meter stashed away in boot for the journey as the former owner made a lovely wooden case for it and lined it with some sort of foam to protect it and it stinks. Cracked the meter open and boy o boy, the D cell has corroded nicely, as has the PP3 so that area need some attention before I can power it up and see if it does work. So the sellers notion of it working must have been based on the fact the meter movement swings back sideways when rocking the meter, er Yeh. :palm:

On the plus side the rest of the meter appears to be OK, and the range switch is thing of beauty, pure TEA porn it is, I'll pop some pictures up later. It has all the hall marks of being a factory build rather a kit, every thing is so precise in its location and presentation, a joy to see.

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Looking forwards to looking at the guts of that. They're really nice VOMs. If you can clean it up it's great sitting there next to a V-7 ;)


--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on May 26, 2018, 04:25:49 pm ---are you orthodox or do you only wear the pasta strainer on special occasions?  (like visiting the dept of motor vehicles photo center)

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I only wear the strainer when riding a motorbike  8)

nixiefreqq:


why do I get the feeling that mnem has wrecked a few scooters in his time...….and still does not like wearing a damn helmet.
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I have wrecked more than a few, but I ALWAYS wear a brain bucket. I used to be one of those crazy BMX/freestyle kids; then I graduated to YZ250s/KX250s, H1s, H2s and KZs and a GPZ1100 which I literally wore out (bought new, sold 3 rebores later and I got almost as much when I sold it after riding it for almost 10 years).

I HATE the sticky/sweaty/fogging glasses... but I love my (slightly foggy) brain better.


mnem
We have a special name for other 'cyclists who don't wear a helmet: " Organ Donor ".
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last time my ass was on a bike was the day I watched my buddy wreck my 535 in the late 80s.  never would have guessed a guy that big could bounce so high. (he refused the helmet because only pussy's wore 'em).  fortunately he dropped the cigarette before the bike finally landed on him.....because apparently the gas cap popped open when his testicles hit the latch.  he was soaked in 89 octane and bleeding from about everywhere a mammal can bleed when his son and i pulled the bike off him.  and yet he still fought us when we stuffed him into a car for a trip to the ER (he was yelling something about his diabetes and they would not treat him and release him).   his wife at the time was a nurse who said the helmet would not have mattered because his coconut was "solid bone from ear to ear". 

glad to hear you wear the helmet.   now that we are gettin' older you need to wear the cpap too.

bd139:
2009 Dawes Ultra Galaxy here. Human powered. Until I got hit by a taxi cunt in 2012. Won’t ride a bike any more.

Motorcycles are known as donorcycles here.

Specmaster:
When I first opened this up and saw the level of corrosion I thought I'd been sold a pup after all as there was no way this was going to work like that, both batteries were spent but seller stated it was working so I assume that it was working at the time when he checked back in 2017 when he first tried to sell it.

Anyway, batteries were tossed away, terminals were suitably cleaned and the "D" cell spring contact removed and worked on to restore bright metal again and reassembled, new batteries fitted and nothing  :palm: not a dammed sausage, not even a flicker of the needle. Out came my 3466A and checked the circuit through, volts etc all checked out OK until I came to ohms adjust pot, open circuit, detoxed it and it did show some signs of life but boy was it finicky, detoxed it a few times and worked the pot well each time and eventually it did come good and I was able to adjust the ohms adj to get a zero reading on the ohms scales. We were in business, meter seems to be slightly sticky and the meter has a poor linearity across the scales, as does its sister V-7AU valve voltmeter. I'm hoping that as it seems the meter has been in a damp atmosphere that as it fully dries out that the meter might become more fluid in its movement and settle on its value correctly rather as it is now, sometimes having to overshoot the value and drop back slightly to correctly read the meters input.

Accuracy of the meter is at best an indication of the value when compared to todays digital meters.

 

Neomys Sapiens:
Loong time ago, I was abused by a photographer as a repair service for her studio flash units.
Guess why I was so eager to do a commercially unsustainable repair?
After the first two, I somehow lost my respect and found out that they contain lots of hurts! Serious, knock-you-out and leave a scar (under the burned black dot) sort of hurts!
And it didn't even get me into her pants... :( ::)

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