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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Specmaster:
Seeing as I switched my T12 on the other day for the first time in 3 weeks, it's safe for the time being from eviction from my bench, especially as I have 2 of them there as well.
From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]
bitseeker:
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 29, 2018, 03:34:40 am ---
The funny looking clippies are from the garden section of the local Dollar Store; they're meant to hold vines and such to trellises or stakes without injuring them. You get like a dozen of 'em for a buck, and they're perfect for jobs like this where you need a zillion little fingers to gently pinch all around the edge of something.
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Nice clamps. Must remember the dollar store for that.
bitseeker:
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 29, 2018, 06:47:05 pm ---I gotta close this thread and go do something else because you guys almost have me convinced that I need a soldering station like that.
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LOL! I feel your pain, especially after seeing what a nice job it does with SMD.
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 29, 2018, 08:27:53 pm ---IC off in 10 seconds. Drag soldering/flooding pins. Quick clean up with a dab of Chemtronics soder-wick and wipe over with IPA.
Impressed so far. Much nicer than the Weller for the same tasks.
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I concur. That's some nice TEA bait you've got there.
mnementh:
--- Quote from: bitseeker on June 29, 2018, 08:38:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on June 29, 2018, 03:34:40 am ---
The funny looking clippies are from the garden section of the local Dollar Store; they're meant to hold vines and such to trellises or stakes without injuring them. You get like a dozen of 'em for a buck, and they're perfect for jobs like this where you need a zillion little fingers to gently pinch all around the edge of something.
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Nice clamps. Must remember the dollar store for that.
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Just remember that these little guys are for where you need a soft touch... a few ounces of pressure is all they produce. Not like the $4 plastic Bucket o' Clamps from Horror Fraught that clamp tight enough to break themselves.
These clips are also a good emergency source of 100mm-150mm pieces of spring steel wire when you need to fabri-cobble something together real quick.
mnem
*Clip-ily*
bd139:
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 29, 2018, 08:21:48 pm ---Nope, would never work given the fickle nature of the female species. They want to drag you along shopping because they consider it "bonding". If you show boredom there will be pouting. They want to ask your opinion on their selections that have no right answers so you'll be in the doghouse. For example: "Does this dress make me look fat?" Answer..."Nope, you're already fat" :palm:
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Meant to reply to this earlier. We have a mutual agreement with shopping. It’s usually the same place every time. This has a nice multi storey. I sit on the top floor with my HT as it’s got some range there and try and get some contacts. She goes shopping with the children. Periodically I go downstairs to meet one of the children who has become unbearably fed up with shopping or their phone has gone flat and take them back to the car so they can lurk with earphones in on WhatsApp and get some power.
Then after about an hour, “dad I need a shit”. This goes on for about 20 minutes. Followed by “I’m touching cloth now” and a comment from one of the fresh children that they should have gone before they came back to the car park. Text the wife, no reply. FFS. By then it’s all three of and I drag them downstairs to the toilet. Literally the moment they enter the toilet I get a text from the other half that says “I’m done now, can you come and pick me up from the other side of Kingston. I’m near some incomprehensible location that I can’t describe and you don’t know”. “Can you just meet me outside sports direct”. “I don’t know where that is”. “You were in it earlier”. Followed by me using find an iPhone to find a wife.
If gadget pub fixed that I’d be there like a shot. Perhaps being too pissed to drive would be a win.
I exaggerate the above slightly but you get the idea of the terrible nightmares I have about going shopping.
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