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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
bd139:
That’s only because real men tend to have both the scopes broken and have no other options on the table :)
mnementh:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 05, 2018, 07:52:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 05, 2018, 06:14:51 pm ---On top of this, those taxes were paid AT THE DOCKS, (docks that were built by colonist labor, using indigenous materials, and managed by colonial property owners in all levels except the highest, where the money was) to his Majesty's agents backed directly by British soldiers. Importers with subsidy by the crown like EITC were exempted from slip fees, which was where those property owners made their profit from the operation of those docks.
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My dear chap, that is the fundamental nature of how taxation works. Somebody from the Tyrant/Dictator/King/Government turns up and demands, on the basis that you own some property/have been paid for some work/want to buy something, that you give them money on a more or less explicit threat that violence will be done to you unless you hand over the dosh. It's just that nowadays the uniformed men with weapons only turn up after the Tyrant's/Dictator's/King's/Government's courts have committed you for non-payment. It hasn't really changed at all.
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Well, duh. My point being rather that these taxes were special, and levied in usurious levels (I know... what is usurious depends entirely on which side of the usury you sit ;) ) at just the time when said Government promised these people they'd start seeing the return on their investment of lives & capital.
Taxation, like every other aspect of Government, is entirely a matter of what the market will bear; the good King grossly miscalculated what this particular market would bear at a time when he was already overextended on numerous other fronts.
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 05, 2018, 07:55:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 05, 2018, 04:10:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 05, 2018, 02:54:35 pm ---Sometimes you have to accept defeat. I just spent hours putting the vertical board back into the 465 and the result is the scope is in worse shape than when I started. Channel 1 trace but no response to any input. Channel 2 no trace at all. I checked and double checked all connections and they're OK. I'm in no mood at this point to try to toubleshoot this mess. But I'm not scrapping it, although tempted. I'm putting it away and I'll come back to it another day. It's rare that I can't fix a piece of equipment but this 465 is kicking my butt. So to avoid doing something stupid it will be put away...for now.
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hate to say this.......and you will probably curse my eyes for suggesting it......BUT.....maybe you should consider getting a second 465 for module swapping and signal cross checking.
two of everything is almost a TEA minimum.
ok, now you can hunt me down and kill me like a dog.
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Pah! That's for wimps. Real Men (TM) simply look at the schematic and think.
Inspiration:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lpY-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT18&lpg=PT18&dq=%22richard+feynman%22+repair+radios&source=bl&ots=tpQ8qk5B7S&sig=on4QeG40j2Rlm_UUSIY3nac1CvE
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Feynman?!?
Why'd you have to bring RELIGION into this? :-DD
mnem
"“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
basinstreetdesign:
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 05, 2018, 05:55:12 pm ---
--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 05, 2018, 04:10:07 pm ---
hate to say this.......and you will probably curse my eyes for suggesting it......BUT.....maybe you should consider getting a second 465 for module swapping and signal cross checking.
two of everything is almost a TEA minimum.
ok, now you can hunt me down and kill me like a dog.
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No I won't.....because I had the same thought! A true TEA addict. :-DD
The 465 is securely tucked away in the bottom of the scope cart waiting for the day when I pull it out and we do battle again. :box: ;D
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That's the best course. Someday soon, just as you are waking up in the morning, you will remember something you forgot to check...
nixiefreqq:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 05, 2018, 07:55:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 05, 2018, 04:10:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 05, 2018, 02:54:35 pm ---Sometimes you have to accept defeat. I just spent hours putting the vertical board back into the 465 and the result is the scope is in worse shape than when I started. Channel 1 trace but no response to any input. Channel 2 no trace at all. I checked and double checked all connections and they're OK. I'm in no mood at this point to try to toubleshoot this mess. But I'm not scrapping it, although tempted. I'm putting it away and I'll come back to it another day. It's rare that I can't fix a piece of equipment but this 465 is kicking my butt. So to avoid doing something stupid it will be put away...for now.
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hate to say this.......and you will probably curse my eyes for suggesting it......BUT.....maybe you should consider getting a second 465 for module swapping and signal cross checking.
two of everything is almost a TEA minimum.
ok, now you can hunt me down and kill me like a dog.
--- End quote ---
Pah! That's for wimps. Real Men (TM) simply look at the schematic and think.
Inspiration:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lpY-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT18&lpg=PT18&dq=%22richard+feynman%22+repair+radios&source=bl&ots=tpQ8qk5B7S&sig=on4QeG40j2Rlm_UUSIY3nac1CvE
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I am a dirty low down unrepentant board swapper.
no nobel prize for me.
bitseeker:
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 05, 2018, 05:55:12 pm ---The 465 is securely tucked away in the bottom of the scope cart waiting for the day when I pull it out and we do battle again. :box: ;D
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He who fights and puts away, gets to Widlarize it another day. ;D
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