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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

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bitseeker:
As everyone is in mourning during this, the great eBay drought of 2018, I shall tease you with the up-and-coming arrival of a piece of vintage electronics. Alas, it is not test gear, but it does plug into the wall and has buttons, switches and glowing digits, lots of glowing digits. ^-^

mnementh:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 05, 2018, 11:48:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 05, 2018, 10:29:07 pm ---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.

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Quite right too.

I've occasionally warned new engineers that "saving" bad RF cables will result in two unwanted things being widlarised. The dawning comprehension is pleasant to behold; the speed of comprehension is a useful guide.

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Hmmm... old man Basche (the guy who gave me my start in electronics) taught me instead to tie a knot in the end of the bad cable and toss it in the "Salvage box". He came from an A/V background, and according to him, this was a universally understood warning that a cable was bad and needed repair before it could be returned to service. However, this was also a time when most cables were repairable and quality cables were quite expensive. As operating frequencies got higher and higher, cabling evolved into the disposable charlie foxtrot we take for granted nowadays.

I still make it a habit to cut the broken ends off 10-25ft Cat5 Cat6 cables and keep a few dozen in the cable box for reserve; I can reterminate and test while I watch my Buffy/Angel reruns.  :-DD

But I'd NEVER put them back up in with my "good" cables.  :palm:


--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 06, 2018, 02:01:46 am ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 06, 2018, 01:27:56 am ---Well Ebay might be dead as far finding new items of TE to feed my TEA addiction but I've sold a couple of items in the last few days, sadly I have had to part company with my HP 1740A and also my Keithley 160 as I had neither the real need for them or the space to keep them as my gear has to be used to warrant a place in my collection. I did love that 1740A but out of my scopes, it was also the one most likely to fail on me as it has let me down a couple of times with the poor connections between boards that need to be wriggled every now and then :palm: My Iwatsu and Hitachi have been faultless in their performance.

The 160, rock solid as it has been everytime I did manage to use it, was sadly lacking the AC functions that other meters have and was only a 3.5 digit and I have plenty of handhelds that cover that area for me with more ranges / features, yes I know you Nixie lovers will probably hate me that, but it needed to be somewhere where it might be more appreciated  :-+, so I gave it its freedom  :-DD

Now I'll have to wait for something else to crop up that catches my eye, not had much time for TEA activities laterly, helping my eldest Son move into his new flat with all the trials and tribulations that go along with the territory.

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you sir are a hard piece of work.

only a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition could part with a 1740a AND a piece of nixie equipment (and both in the same week!).

your infamy will become legend.


(ok.....i stole most of that from a clint eastwood movie.  but hey........are you made of stone?)
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"He was Tougher Than Leather;
And he didn't care whether
The sun shined or not..."



mnem
"...There's a bird in the sky,
Flying high, flying high...
To a place, from a place;
Changing skies, changing skies..."

Brumby:

--- Quote from: bitseeker on July 06, 2018, 02:17:21 am ---As everyone is in mourning during this, the great eBay drought of 2018, ......

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Just another hapless day in Oz.

Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 06, 2018, 02:16:11 am ---@nixiefreqq, I confess my sins looking absolution, if it's any consolation, I do have 3  other HP items that I have no intention of parting with, they are 2 x 3466A and 3478A. As for the Nixie, well I think its gone to a good home where it will be treated like a lord.

The 1740A was too large and heavy for my small bench area which is better suited to a smaller size of scope, which my other 3 are. I know it was not all that long ago that I nursed it back to health after it had been sorely neglected by its previous owner and I do know that it has gone a lover of vintage HP gear and will his jewel in the crown, so all's well that ends well. :popcorn:

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I suppose it can be looked at as being similar to fostering kittens.  You get them healthy and strong, then let them move on to good homes.  I'm no good at that, which is why I don't foster kittens - I'd have more of them than I currently do test gear.  It's good that some among us can occasionally be dispassionate enough to have the strength to let things move on to new homes when it's appropriate.

-Pat

med6753:
The big reveal....Fluke 1900A Multi-Function Counter.

Measuring "Time" output on Heath IG-4244 Scope Calibrator. And it agrees with my Chinese Frequency Counter.



Ready to break the seal. Don't know last calibration date but the sticker seems recent.



Lots of vintage DIPS




Siemen's supply caps. Did a quick check of the supply and it's OK but I think these caps should be changed out.



No more empty space on the stack of Flukes. Got a good deal on the counter. $35 USD plus $9 USD shipping.

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