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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

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Vince:
Fuck cars and  smartphones, all junk.

Instead let's do something on topic and much more interesting : have these 3 lovely cans with lots of gold plated leads, how sexy.

Can't identify them. Does any old beard here have a clue  what they are ?

First two from the left, the two shortest ones, have 8 leads. The third / taller one has 10 leads no less.

Probably some vintage OP-amp or comparator or linear voltage regulator I assume, but well... Google didn't help me here.

EDIT : if you know the answer but DO NOT have an old beard, that's fine, I will listen none the less.





mnementh:

--- Quote from: Vince on July 04, 2022, 09:24:37 pm ---I don't know. YMMV. I can only speak for the old cars I bought here, I can't speak for your old cars.  :-//

If they were shit and full of trouble then yes, flog them. I don't have problems with mine and they are cheap and easy to maintain myself, so I keep them. Simple  :-//
My first car I didn't know much about cars, so I got burned, but then you learn and the next you chose more wisely, that's all  :-//

If you can't tell a lemon, from a decent old car, yeah best to stick to a modern car and pray, if they can afford it.

It's like buying anything used really.

If you know squat about scopes,; you buy a shit box for 250 Euros, or buy a nice one for 50.. only difference is how much you know about scopes. Just don't buy the junk  :-//

As for costs again, makes me laugh. It's like saying my TDS 694C is junk. Well OK but it works and if you want the same B/W and sampling rate from Tek today, it's 50 or 100K maybe, I guess.I paid 250 euros for mine. So yeah, the other day I noticed a couple keys near the CRT don't work anymore, but yes, you can bet your ass I find it worth going through the trouble of fixing those keys, no matter how old and junky this scope might seem to most people. It doesn't have an LCD screen ? Yeah, so what ?!

And as far as I can tell, your old Saturn fits the old junk category, so how comes being so wise, you haven't splashed 50K to buy a new car ?
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We did. 4 years ago we bought a brand-new Rav4. This is the closest thing in terms of reliability to a Saturn we could find nowadays; it is a pregnant Camry, which the entire world knows is (aside from consumables like tires, brakes & batteries) a 10-15 years zero-repairs vehicle if you do nothing but keep clean oil in it, and more if you actually take care of it.

We've had the Saturn since it was brand-new too; almost 23 years now. Over the course of its life, it provided collateral for no less than 3 life-altering loans, which we'd have been completely screwed without. And surviving a freak hailstorm, it paid out $6000 to us which allowed us to move and to close out one of those loans. Aside from a alternator and a radiator, the only repairs it has had are consumables of brakes, tires and batteries. Notice a pattern here...?

That is, until now. But I am a mechanic, and I know how to assess... it still has a year or three in it as long as we keep it for a 2nd vehicle. As primary transportation? Hell no. As a toy, or a 2nd vehicle? Hell yes.

Same as my brand new scope vs my 2465s and my 54645A.

So... just like you didn't know what you were missing not having a civilized semi-modern scope until you got that 54645D, I promise you Vince... you're missing out big time not having a semi-modern phone, or a semi-modern vehicle.

I think you've fallen into a really dangerous trap... a belief system built around the whole notion that everything new is cheap crap. The opposite is true with a lot of things; while almost everything nowadays is built to be disposable, many things are built now to be maintenance-free for the entirety of their design life. That is time you don't have to spend doing maintenance like "the good old days".

That is a thing of value in and of itself; it allows you to trade your single most valuable asset which is time, for mere easily replaceable money.

No matter how you slice it, that is a bargain.

As long as you're willing to step up and take that phone call from the here and now, rather than continue hiding out in the past. ;)

mnem
"…You can linger too long in your dreams;
Say goodbye to the oldies but goodies,
'Cause the good ole days weren't always good
And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems…"

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 04, 2022, 08:30:35 pm ---Your funeral  :-//

I ran shitboxes for years - one broke down on the way to a job interview. I didn't get the job.

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I can understand that, but equally, there is zero guarantee that had you not broken down, you'd have got the job either. Any employer who would mark you down for that, is not worthy of your skills in my view. What would have happened had you been involved in an accident, or been delayed because the motorway was shut due to a RTA and you were on the motorway at the time that it became blocked, leaving you no wriggle room?

EDIT:
Employers need to live in the real world as well. I remember the time when the company I was working for was based in Brentford and for some reason decided to hold a meeting at the Hilton Hotel, Newbury North services on the M4. The entire sales force managed to make it there on time, even those that were coming down from the North of the country, but the 2 directors (MD and his wife) who lived at the time in Osterly arrived quite late for the meeting and did not even apologise for being late. Yet when members of the sales force arrived late occasionally, including me would get scolded for not showing our colleagues enough respect by ensuring that we gave ourselves plenty of time for hiccups on the way,  :palm: A clear signal if there was that they were entitled to be late, but we weren't.

mnementh:
Yeeeah... there are a number of makes and models where if you buy new, the odds of it happening are literally statistically insignificant. Hence our decision to buy the Rav4.

mnem

mnementh:

--- Quote from: Vince on July 04, 2022, 09:38:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 04, 2022, 09:33:31 pm ---On my way back up from the dwagon-cave, I made the mistake of peeking in on the Anniversary Project table...

How the fuck do you get a run in the top of a perfectly leveled table...?    :rant:

mnem
*toddles off to shop finish grits of sandpaper and a sanding block*

--- End quote ---

Because it's old junk, only  misery waiting for a place to happen... just get a brand new table it's the only way to go ! Old tables are crap !  >:D
Trying to revive them is just wasted money and sweat, just get a modern shiny new table and get on with your life !  :popcorn:
--- End quote ---

I got rid of Franken-Cruiser so I could have the time and money to spend on what's important... like fixing up a old table for no other reason than that it reminds my wife of her beloved father.   ;)

I also got rid of a garage full of old engines, shop equipment, motorcycles and TE I knew I'd never fix for the same reason... some of it has been spread around in here, some of it has been mercifully executed. But all of it is gone because it stood in the way of what is important.

mnem
"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates

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