Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[SilverSolder]

[...] people would buy "green lipped mussel pills", with zero indication of what that would achieve [...]

Hope springs eternal...

[McBryce]

That song was literally the soundtrack of my life as a rowdy teenager growing up half in the hills of upstate NY and half in the streets of Pittsburgh.

Also why I gave up beer. It gave me headaches & made me a asshole drunk; started fights, more often than not got the shit kicked outta me and/or wound up in the drunk tank looking like something out of Mad Max.

mnem
Actually, the whole damned album...

The best song I know that describes my youth is from the Arctic Monkeys "Riot Van". It perfectly describes a standard weekend night in inner city Dublin (or many  northern UK cties) at the time. Additionally, their song "Mardy Bum" describes my life since then

McBryce.

[tggzzz]

Huh... TIL about green-lipped mussel homeopathy: https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-830/new-zealand-green-lipped-mussel

Appears to be mostly some small amount of Omega3 and a whole lot of wank.

The remarkable thing was that there was no wank - there were no claims whatsoever! More or less a blank label. Sigh.

[WastelandTek]

I prefer the hard copy manuals myself. I’ve had too many bad scans over the years to trust that as the only source of info. Usually you only find out it’s a bad scan right in the middle of a problem solving session.

We have mauritron here who are the equivalent and some of their scans are just the worst.

yeah

I just think better on paper...I guess I am a product of a bygone age...

[bd139]

I’m not that old 

Soooo did some cupboard clean out. Found 11 Meanwell switching power supplies ranging 5 to 24 volts in various sizes  . I have way too much shite

[tautech]

Huh... TIL about green-lipped mussel homeopathy: https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-830/new-zealand-green-lipped-mussel

Appears to be mostly some small amount of Omega3 and a whole lot of wank.

mnem
But wait; it also comes in a powder! Now how much would you pay...?

Grampa swore by them for his arthritis however today we have a wider range of pain hiding drugs. 
Well at least with the mussels you're not stoned or pissed all the time. 

[Specmaster]

So....are any of you Brits gonna show up today at 2100 hrs UTC or just continue to huff and puff and piss and moan? 

I won't be there, I've never anything like it before  but right now we have our very own bit of huff and puff with storm Dennis lashing anything and everything in sight, but never say never, I might be there one day, I have a microphone somewhere. When you all get to hear my Essex voice, you might regret it because I bet you'll have trouble understanding me 

[bd139]

Innit fam.

[bitseeker]

I just noticed this up top...



Some people might use this number to assert that we either (a) have too much time on our hands or (b) need to get out more.   

Yeah, I saw that too. Fortunately, that metric doesn't just include us. There's quite a following of lurkers, too.

TEA is now the #2 thread by view count.

[tautech]

So....are any of you Brits gonna show up today at 2100 hrs UTC or just continue to huff and puff and piss and moan? 

I won't be there, I've never anything like it before  but right now we have our very own bit of huff and puff with storm Dennis lashing anything and everything in sight, but never say never, I might be there one day, I have a microphone somewhere. When you all get to hear my Essex voice, you might regret it because I bet you'll have trouble understanding me 

I still ain't got a mic but will be there ! Piker ! 

[bitseeker]

My Thurlby Capacitance meter arrived this evening, brought from a seller on eBay as "for parts or not working" and I won it for the opening bid of just £15 so, I was expecting to have to do some repair work on it which was a bit of a worry as both owners and service manuals for it seem to even rarer than hens teeth.

...

Boy oh boy, it was spotless inside and looked totally mint in every way. It can even be battery operated, 6 C cells. Connected it up my bench supply and switched ON, it promptly sprung to life, so yet another TEA acquisition which needed nothing more than a careful exterior clean up, bugger.

Added to POI.

[Specmaster]

I dunno; I think y'all have raised getting pissed in the street to an art form. And it appears others have noticed as well. 

mnem
 

That's just New Years or Saturday night drunkenness.

That song was I believe written after has stay in New York and was a reflection of his own experiences of New York, as I'm sure the Lady Cop will tell that the Big Apple is famous for its fight nights. 

[Specmaster]

Yes, but to do that you'd have to go to Swindon. I generally only go to Swindon if people pay me to go and only if they pay me handsomely at that. The idea of going there at my own expense and then paying more once I'm there seems alien. 

Oh Swindon has redeeming features, e.g. the magic roundabout which actually works well

and the museum of computing (naturally that is lower brow than TNMoC) ).

OTOH, there's Slough (which should be pronounced to rhyme with "pig trough")...

Moreover, my route would take me within smelling distance of Slough. 

Yes there's a few of them around now, there's one in Hemel Hempstead and there used to be another in South Benfleet, it has just been removed by an improved road layout.

[worsthorse]

I was waiting for that 

Arguably it’s the 4xx I’m done with (apart from the 4x3). So no more 465/475 derivatives.

denial takes so many subtle forms.         

[bitseeker]

Quick actual test gear picture. As the 1740A is out of action again (stopped sweeping) I figure I’d steal the knob caps off it for my 6236b which is working nicely and hurts me more to see uncapped 

That looks sooo much better, bd. Missing caps OCD is a terrible thing to live with (I can live with the extra pointers).

[tggzzz]

I was waiting for that 

Arguably it’s the 4xx I’m done with (apart from the 4x3). So no more 465/475 derivatives.

Ah. There's no such thing as a true Tek scope syndrome.

[beanflying]

So....are any of you Brits gonna show up today at 2100 hrs UTC or just continue to huff and puff and piss and moan? 

I won't be there, I've never anything like it before  but right now we have our very own bit of huff and puff with storm Dennis lashing anything and everything in sight, but never say never, I might be there one day, I have a microphone somewhere. When you all get to hear my Essex voice, you might regret it because I bet you'll have trouble understanding me 

I still ain't got a mic but will be there ! Piker ! 

I have been up most of the night because 'reasons' but I flicked on the Espresso machine a while ago, luckily there is no webcams so no one need look at my bloodshot eyes.

[tautech]

I have been up most of the night because 'reasons' but I flicked on the Espresso machine a while ago, luckily there is no webcams so no one need look at my bloodshot eyes.

Hope nutthing terribly bad Bean. 

[worsthorse]

I prefer the hard copy manuals myself. I’ve had too many bad scans over the years to trust that as the only source of info. Usually you only find out it’s a bad scan right in the middle of a problem solving session.

We have mauritron here who are the equivalent and some of their scans are just the worst.

yeah

I just think better on paper...I guess I am a product of a bygone age...

me, too. every time i get a PDF of a book i am actually reading, i end up buying a hard copy. i write in them, i highlight, i use stickies and i've never figured out a good way to do that with an e-book; the tools availabe generally suck. i pretty much have given up the notion that buying artek scans is anything other than a prelude to going to kinkos and making proper manuals with big schematics. and yes, i have a big collection of databooks even though i also have data sheet scans for most of the parts in my inventory.

i also prefer writing to typing. almost all of my figuring is on paper, with a fine point pen.  a product of another age, i guess.

i do have an ebook reader and i do use it to read non-technical stuff because it is really handy to have something with two hundred books on it when one is spending hours or days in transit.

[worsthorse]

So....are any of you Brits gonna show up today at 2100 hrs UTC or just continue to huff and puff and piss and moan? 

I won't be there, I've never anything like it before  but right now we have our very own bit of huff and puff with storm Dennis lashing anything and everything in sight, but never say never, I might be there one day, I have a microphone somewhere. When you all get to hear my Essex voice, you might regret it because I bet you'll have trouble understanding me 

I still ain't got a mic but will be there ! Piker ! 

I should be there, though probably not promptly.

[beanflying]

I have been up most of the night because 'reasons' but I flicked on the Espresso machine a while ago, luckily there is no webcams so no one need look at my bloodshot eyes.

Hope nutthing terribly bad Bean. 

Just part of the battle sometimes. 

[med6753]

Me and tautech are on.

[bitseeker]

It's TEA Time!

It's OK if you don't have a mic. Join the #teatime text chat channel.

[WastelandTek]

I guess I should really look into this "dischord" thing, I assume there is an application you need to install like teamspeak or ventrillo?

maybe next week

[beanflying]

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