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| Robert763:
TEA Anyone in UK @BD139 want a thermal TRMS meter? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403774543294 |
| bd139:
Already seen it. At that price, no :-DD I am after a decent 3400A but the other seller who had one didn’t want to shift it at the price I wanted to pay. I can afford to wait |
| AVGresponding:
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 14, 2022, 10:58:17 am --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 14, 2022, 08:47:07 am --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 07:09:35 pm --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 04:27:12 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 01:08:26 pm --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 12:22:35 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 12:05:55 pm --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 11:41:55 am --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 13, 2022, 11:32:22 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 08:06:59 am ---Yep. Rocking the 0.99L 3 cyl here :-DD Sounds like a V8 if you stick kangaroo juice in it. --- End quote --- I think you've been drinking too much of the kangaroo juice. Nothing sound like a V-8 except a V-8. ;) I have no problem with folks keeping the heavy metal of yesteryear alive... I'll always be a motorhead, and there still is no replacement for displacement. But this is a different world; these toys of yesteryear have to be treated as toys, not as a way of life if we are to survive as a species. We cannot afford for those lovely beasts to be anybody's "daily driver" any longer. mnem --- End quote --- Aaaaand this has always been utter nonsense. This is why Colin Chapman's designs blew all the primitive displacement based ones into the weeds. The only thing adding displacement is good for is going fast in a straight line. For anything else, weight reduction is the real answer. Hence how Mini Coopers could beat 7-litre+ yank tanks in the early days of touring cars. --- End quote --- And it's equally arguable that your line of reasoning is just wankers spankin' it because they can't get their hands on a real car. Anything you can do to a tiny engine you can do to a big engine and get even more power. Simple physics. You don't have a right to judge how people like to play, or their choice of toys... don't be a dick, man. mnem :horse: --- End quote --- You're completely missing the point, not sure if deliberately or not, but w/e. The Point: Weight reduction improves EVERY aspect of a car's performance. Putting a bigger engine in it, or for that matter keeping the same engine and increasing the power by boring/stroking it, ONLY improves (assuming you have the traction and gearing headroom) straight line acceleration and top speed. That is simple physics. I have not at any point criticised or judged other people's method or means of playing, that's entirely in your head. I put it to you that it is not I that is "being a dick". --- End quote --- That is exactly what you were doing. There is nothing wrong with wanting NOTHING MORE than to go fast in a straight line. There is nothing wrong with wanting to strap your ass to the biggest chunk of horsepower you can muster, and just PUNCH IT. You were passing judgement on that, and denigrating that form of play. You were being a dick. EDIT: And speaking of MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY: My point was explicitly that musclecars are a toy and need to be treated as such. You're the one had to jump on them being huge and wasteful, as if that matters more than a fat heap of dingoes' kidneys when we're talking about toys. mnem Try putting a 460 into a VW Beetle some time. The thrill is visceral, and partly because it is dumb and dangerous and puts you out of control. --- End quote --- No, just no. You're reading between the lines what you want to believe, and not what I said. Standard Mnem. I pointed out the fallacy of the statement "there's no replacement for displacement", nothing more. I think you'll find that people who get their kicks from driving fast in a straight line for around 10 seconds ALSO get serious on the weight reduction, if they are competitive. I have NOTHING against this pastime, even if it's not for me. As for musclecars being "just toys", this is a stereotypical view normally only seen outside north America, and if I'd said that I would have been in the wrong and could have been justifiably called on it. I know people in the UK that daily drive a muscle car. I bet a lot more do it in the US and Canada. I also never mentioned them being huge and wasteful, again. you're imagining things that just are not true. Did you not notice I posted a yt link to a CLASSIC MUSCLE CAR when disagreeing with the statement "there's no better sound than a supercharger"? If you're going to pick a fight with someone, at least do it for something they actually said or did, not just what you imagined they said or did. --- End quote --- I'm sorry; I can't hear you over the sound of you backpedaling... ;) TL/DR: You picked this fight, and it was over a point you evidently don't even disagree with. I've had my belly full; I'm gonna go sand a fucking table. At least something productive will happen today. :-DD mnem vroom. --- End quote --- You're accusing me of something and I am denying it. Kindly provide EVIDENCE for your accusation, or do not ever speak to me again, and do not comment on my posts ever again. I will pay you the same courtesy. --- End quote --- FFS man... it's all right there. All you have to do is take a few steps back and it's pretty obvious how what you said can be taken in a confrontational tone; this time that's what happened. It's also pretty obvious that what started out as a mild bit of preaching about how wasteful people are, (actual intent was more about how hard we fight to protect our "right" to be wasteful ::)) has turned into a senseless row completely out of misunderstanding. Since one of us has to be the first to act like an adult about this, I'm going to go sit in the time-out corner for 10 minutes. I suggest you find a different corner and do the same. Jeebus. mnem --- End quote --- Not good enough. "it's all right there" means nothing. Be specific. From what I can guess, you are trying to make my statement that "The only thing adding displacement is good for is going fast in a straight line" to mean "drag racing is stupid and wasteful". Well, I did not say or imply that, at least not by any reasonable metric, and it is not nor has ever been my view. You added two and two and got the national debt of Uruguay. In the context of the rest of my post it should be clear to anyone that this is a statement of engineering fact, no more and no less. Which it is, unquestionably. To be absolutely clear, I will not sit idly and quietly by while I am falsely accused of something. You have failed to even attempt to show any actual evidence, so I can only surmise that you know you are in the wrong but don't want to admit it. If it were a simple matter of opinion or an error in fact, I would be happy to let the matter lie, and move on. However I will NOT be traduced unfairly and without response. How dare you falsely accuse me of being childish, and throwing insults, when all the while doing that very thing. Since it apparently your position to refuse responsibility for your mistakes and to continue to malign my character and intent, you may consider my promise to ignore your existence to be in effect from this moment onwards. Apologies to other users of this thread for the unedited quotes, but I wanted to make sure the context of what has been said by all parties to be plain and unbiased. |
| GreyWoolfe:
--- Quote from: tautech on July 13, 2022, 11:56:46 am --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 11:54:11 am ---I keep getting distracted... I only really logged on to post that the seller of the bench grinder (assetclear) issued a pretty much instant full refund and apology without ebay getting involved. I also get to keep the grinder, though it'll for sure not be getting used as such, at least on the right hand stub. Maybe a polishing wheel on that side, and maybe I can find a decent stone for the left hand stub, which does run true but the stones that came with are both warped. --- End quote --- Get a wire wheel for it and you can thank me later as you'll end up using it more than if it had just stones on it. --- End quote --- This. I took the grinding wheels off my marketplace $20 find and put a polishing wheel on one side and a fine wire wheel on the other. I have it close to a year and have yet to find a need to put back the stones and true them up. |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 14, 2022, 11:21:06 am ---Not good enough. "it's all right there" means nothing. Be specific. From what I can guess, you are trying to make my statement that "The only thing adding displacement is good for is going fast in a straight line" to mean "drag racing is stupid and wasteful". Well, I did not say or imply that, at least not by any reasonable metric, and it is not nor has ever been my view. You added two and two and got the national debt of Uruguay. In the context of the rest of my post it should be clear to anyone that this is a statement of engineering fact, no more and no less. Which it is, unquestionably. To be absolutely clear, I will not sit idly and quietly by while I am falsely accused of something. You have failed to even attempt to show any actual evidence, so I can only surmise that you know you are in the wrong but don't want to admit it. If it were a simple matter of opinion or an error in fact, I would be happy to let the matter lie, and move on. However I will NOT be traduced unfairly and without response. How dare you falsely accuse me of being childish, and throwing insults, when all the while doing that very thing. Since it apparently your position to refuse responsibility for your mistakes and to continue to malign my character and intent, you may consider my promise to ignore your existence to be in effect from this moment onwards. Apologies to other users of this thread for the unedited quotes, but I wanted to make sure the context of what has been said by all parties to be plain and unbiased. --- End quote --- No. I'm done with this. mnem |
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