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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
med6753:
Delivered. Quick check and it powers up and works. Don't have time for pix or pron right now. I have to get ready for work.
Tomorrow morning full details. :-/O
tggzzz:
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--- 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.”
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Not religion, mysticism.
At least scientific mysticism is more on-topic than the politics of taxation.
nixiefreqq:
--- Quote from: bitseeker on July 05, 2018, 08:41:38 pm ---
--- 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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was unfamiliar with the widlar method until one time we got pulled to figure out why a previously long time trouble free circuit was down. spent about 2 hours fiddling with the crypto (kg84a or kiv7...don't remember). then we buzzed out a brand new looking rs 530 patch cord and found it had an open signal ground. showed the local tech control guy the now working circuit and the bad patch cord. to our amazement he took the bad cord and hung it back up with all the other spare cords (despite our protest!). he actually said "those patch cords are $35 each, you can't just throw them away". my buddy "ugly bob" grabbed a pair of dikes off the tool board and cut the bastard into a dozen or so 2 inch pieces. then he explained what it meant to widlarize broke shit lest it return to haunt you.
one of many valuable things ugly bob taught me.
bd139:
Just a warning however. I used to work with a guy years ago and we decided to widlarize the NDS server when we switched over to AD. So out it went into the car park, two clue bats were located (2x4’s) and the shit was merrily beaten out of it.
On the way back in, hey X you’re bleeding. Oh where? There was a 4 in long metal splinter from some front panel shielding that had gone through his trouser leg and he was pissing blood out like a tap. Cue me scrubbing blood out of footwell carpets that evening after I ran him up to the hospital. Not a major injury fortunately but you can imagine where it can go.
Some kit bites back :)
Also advice from Bob Pease who used a Maxim calendar in his car footwell to protect it from dirt (and blood potentially)
And on that note I’m going to bed.
mnementh:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 05, 2018, 09:40:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 05, 2018, 08:18:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 05, 2018, 07:55:14 pm ---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.”
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Not religion, mysticism.
At least scientific mysticism is more on-topic than the politics of taxation.
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We spend much time talking about the great many ways in which our addictions tax us; spiritually, mentally and especially financially. :-DD
A broad, unfiltered conversation about the nature of taxation and government is at worst a tangent; as long as we keep from devolving into political rants, (of which I'll proudly admit I've been guilty more than once) I think we're still well within the realm of friendly water-cooler talk. :o
That said... Feynman has become something of a religion in his own right within certain scientific circles; enough so that it has become the point of a number of jokes within said circles, which is where I was going with that quip... :bullshit:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 05, 2018, 10:48:03 pm ---Just a warning however. I used to work with a guy years ago and we decided to widlarize the NDS server when we switched over to AD. So out it went into the car park, two clue bats were located (2x4’s) and the shit was merrily beaten out of it.
On the way back in, hey X you’re bleeding. Oh where? There was a 4 in long metal splinter from some front panel shielding that had gone through his trouser leg and he was pissing blood out like a tap. Cue me scrubbing blood out of footwell carpets that evening after I ran him up to the hospital. Not a major injury fortunately but you can imagine where it can go.
Some kit bites back :)
Also advice from Bob Pease who used a Maxim calendar in his car footwell to protect it from dirt (and blood potentially)
And on that note I’m going to bed.
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Not to cast aspersions upon your process, but if you'd used the approved HP P/N 19511-80014, this could have been averted. :-DD
Also, you clearly did not place the NDS Server in the center of a pentagram painted in the blood of interns and pointed with hallowed candles, or decommission said server from the command line with the holy writ of rm -rf / to exorcise the demon from its cybernetic soul.
Fortunately for you the blood sacrifice of Mr X seems to have inadvertently sanctified the decommissioning anyways, so you SHOULD be safe. Until the next release, anyways...
mnem
I don't Widlarize; I simply apply the principles of percussive maintenance at multiple points in the triage process. >:D
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