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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
bd139:
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--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 08:55:05 pm ---Being complacent, incompetent, bureaucratic sell outs is our national pastime.
May have been using Mullard smartphones if we weren’t so good at that!
I have this world in my head of a British dystopian parallel 2022 where we had stuff like that with some 1960s anachronistic technology and impracticality applied to it. For example drunk chavs tumbling out of a brown Vauxhall Chevette limousine.
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Or thjis?
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Not bad but I used to eat my lunch in the Barbican centre so location is a bit cheesy now :-DD
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 13, 2022, 09:09:38 pm ---It's usually at this point, the first proper flat sanding, that you find the divot in the middle of the thing that you should have filled and levelled with epoxy before you started. Do not ask me how I know that this is how it goes...
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You shut your dirty, dirty mouth!!! :-DD
LOL... you have no idea how many times I ran hands over this thing... I wound up doing 3 separate rounds of filling with epoxy and sanding. That said... the wife has seen and declared it "amazing after how it was chewed up before"... so of course, the only taskmaster I have to answer to now is me. :o
mnem
Between the heat and my aching back, I might have a result that bastard can live with by Christmas... :P
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 13, 2022, 09:24:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 13, 2022, 08:22:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 13, 2022, 08:09:59 pm ---
Now working on the enclosure - those stains are rather stubborn. -Pat
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Good luck getting that clean. You might have to resort to spray paint. Might I suggest a shade of blue? ;D
Papa Smurf's Shade Tree Painting Service ready to help. :-DD
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LOL - at first I was thinking of painting, but it's starting to come clean with some elbow grease. Waiting on some UV curing adhesive to try to fix the cracks and glue up/rebuild the broken bosses on the cover (left side of the photo, near the front of the instrument): -Pat
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If that doesn't work, you can always just glue some gears on it and call it SteamPunk; it's already got that industrial-revolution-era patina. :-DD
mnem
No mercy; no regrets. >:D
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 13, 2022, 08:09:59 pm ---...I removed the white fuzz with a gentle brushing using an old toothbrush, then cleaned the exposed pins with a DeOxit-soaked piece of green Scotchbrite: -Pat
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Oh, gawrd...
Part of me is cringing, part is screaming that even after all your hard work, I still want to douse that connector bridge in flux and re-tin the legs to protect that exposed copper.
mnem
*smacks paw* "NO! Put down the Metcal and back slowly away..."
Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 11:48:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 13, 2022, 08:09:59 pm ---...I removed the white fuzz with a gentle brushing using an old toothbrush, then cleaned the exposed pins with a DeOxit-soaked piece of green Scotchbrite: -Pat
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Oh, gawrd...
Part of me is cringing, part is screaming that even after all your hard work, I still want to douse that connector bridge in flux and re-tin the legs to protect that exposed copper.
mnem
*smacks paw* "NO! Put down the Metcal and back slowly away..."
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Don't think I'm not considering that - the Metcal heats up quickly. I first wanted to make sure the damned thing worked; now that I know it does I will likely do that. Perhaps even with my 2% silver solder.
-Pat
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