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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

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bitseeker:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 14, 2018, 10:40:36 pm ---TEA fatigue definitely exists. Been there.

It occurs at these points for me:

1. When all your scopes are broken, again.
2. When you've applied the third sticky plaster after something has drawn blood.
3. When you nearly get shot in the face by a cap.
4. When you've got so many cardboard boxes and packaging floating around from deliveries that you can't actually move.
5. When your wife gives you "the look" after something explodes on the dining table.
6. When you find someone else has been at what you've just bought and used a pozidrive on the all the philips screws and buggered them.
7. When you bang your head on the desk after something fell out of the scope you are working on and you go and fetch it.
8. When you find that the one critical page you want in the service manual you downloaded is more pixelated than some Japanese genitals.

--- End quote ---

And of course,

9. When everyone on (insert favorite auction site here) overbids on every piece of gear you've had on your watch list for the last 10 days.
10. When all the equipment you want on (auction site of choice) has exorbitant listing and/or shipping prices.
11. There's nothing good on (that auction site) for the past x months.

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: bitseeker on June 15, 2018, 12:57:35 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 14, 2018, 10:40:36 pm ---TEA fatigue definitely exists. Been there.

It occurs at these points for me:

1. When all your scopes are broken, again.
2. When you've applied the third sticky plaster after something has drawn blood.
3. When you nearly get shot in the face by a cap.
4. When you've got so many cardboard boxes and packaging floating around from deliveries that you can't actually move.
5. When your wife gives you "the look" after something explodes on the dining table.
6. When you find someone else has been at what you've just bought and used a pozidrive on the all the philips screws and buggered them.
7. When you bang your head on the desk after something fell out of the scope you are working on and you go and fetch it.
8. When you find that the one critical page you want in the service manual you downloaded is more pixelated than some Japanese genitals.

--- End quote ---

And of course,

9. When everyone on (insert favorite auction site here) overbids on every piece of gear you've had on your watch list for the last 10 days.
10. When all the equipment you want on (auction site of choice) has exorbitant listing and/or shipping prices.
11. There's nothing good on (that auction site) for the past x months.

--- End quote ---
Well those last 3 additions sum up Ebay perfectly for the last 5 months since Christmas its been pants  :--

Brumby:

--- Quote from: BillB on June 14, 2018, 08:54:31 pm ---TEA Remission!?

After an exhaustive search for the word remission on this site, I only found a few occurrences of some beating some real and serious stuff (awesome, guys!) but nothing talking about TEA remission.

I was looking at buying some used test gear that I really didn't need for more money than I should be spending, but the deal fell through.  Telling my wife about the defeat (coincidentally the same day she gets a big bonus at work  :)) she actually suggested I just buy a new one.  (yeah, I know!  But that's not the strangest part of this story)

I actually told her, "Nah, I really don't even need it and probably wouldn't even use it too much right now."  There was a moment of silence as both of us were taken back by my utterance. She didn't even respond, and I think I saw some worry in her eyes as she walked away.

Is TEA Remission real?  Or do I now have some other affliction that is merely masking my TEA symptoms?  :scared:         

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When I first began reading that, I started having a panic attack and soon felt a bit nauseous.


--- Quote from: bitseeker on June 14, 2018, 10:14:06 pm ---Probably the reason there's no talk of TEA remission is because it doesn't exist. What you're experiencing is just TEA fatigue, a temporary condition that can fool you into thinking you're in remission, only to have your TEA return just when you think you're cured.

Sorry, Bill, it's not that easy to escape. It's like Hotel California. :-DD

I've had TEA fatigue a few times. In fact, I just got over it the other day when I bought an HP 6114A precision power supply that was in need of TLC. For less than $30 with the 10-turn current pot, how could I not? ;D

--- End quote ---
I'm glad of bitseeker's clarification.  Feeling better - but still a bit "off".  Need to buy something.....

bitseeker:

--- Quote from: Brumby on June 15, 2018, 01:24:02 am ---Need to buy something.....

--- End quote ---

Spoken like a true addict. :-DMM :-+

Berni:
Yep havent found any good bargins on ebay lately.

Last week i was so close to scoring a nice Tek signal generator but i got my snipe bid beat out by a single bid increment. :-\

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