How'd you do it?
While consolidating my components collections, I come across stuff on tapes frequently.
These need to be cut from the tape before going into the drawers. The problem is: What is the best way to do it? Side cutters are in no way up to the job. So I use my granddads scissors (he was a tailor; they're about 120 years old now), but often they get entangled. And with drying glue (or is it cement in this case?), after cutting off one side several fall out. In short: It's a mess!
The ends need to be cut in order to fit the resistors neatly inside the drawers and because the remains of the glue/cement make them sticky.
Does any of you know of a simple, working method that does not involve expensive machinery?
You shouldn't use tailor's shears on anything other than cloth. It dulls the edges. Borrowing a tailor's shears to cut paper is generally a good way of getting into a fight.
The tailor died 105 years ago, I'm rather sure he'll not start a fight.
And that's the only job those shears still have to do. They should feel honoured!
Worse, now you're going to get haunted, by a German ghost no less. I'm sure that there's a reason that the English
poltergeist has been borrowed from German.
Muppet: "Can you fix it?, I think it is a fuse blown. It just stopped to work..."
Me: "Let me see"
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I should stop to fix stuff for free to my friends... they are getting above the pain in the ass limit...
The proper bodge would be: Cut off the plug, strip a bit of insulation from the wires and tell Muppet to stuff that into the wall socket, maybe use some (wooden) sticks or Q-tips to help with that.
"By sticking two knitting needles into the wall outlet, one can test his IQ"
*shrugs*
I've been bitten enough by cheap ALDI tools (or other cheap tools) to know that I'm not buying no-brand tools anymore. It's just not worth it. Obviously, YMMV.
They're fine if you want to strip the odd nut here, mis-measure something or burn your house down while soldering.
Just as well I buy tools from Lidl then, they come with a free 3 year warranties, never had an issue with them yet.
Ah you want an 8 year old then!
(maths homework today)...
Looking at that 4503 again to see why it seems to lose calibration, it transpired that around the input section there were a couple of resistors that looked as it they had a good solid joint top and bottom when in fact it was good on the bottom. I cobbled my USB microscope up so that could observe the joints while applying some pressure to the legs and it was possible to witness them moving slightly. By very careful application of a J tip on my iron, still watching via the microscope, I could see when the solder reflowed to make a good joint again. Just caught the edge of the new caps I fitted after the heat gun distorted them on my last attempt to eradicate bad joints, I might replace them, but they aren't too bad and it seems to be working just fine now. Fingers crossed I nailed the bugger this time.
Not TEA related, but I suspect this might resonate with some of the denizens herein:
Do you deal with them directly or through fleabay? Not having dealt with them before, I went through fleaBay and made an offer which was instantly rejected. My offer was a bit on the low side. I assume a seller can set a reserve price in fleabay for that sort of thing? Probably I will sit back and wait for a better deal to come along...
Via Ebay mostly since they don't post their new stuff elsewhere. They asked me if I wanted to do the tour of their warehouse at some point and just said no since I was buying too much already and was trying to limit my TEA consumption
Oh, you pooor suffering bastard. Ya coulda braved it to see if they had any cheap-cheap project scopes for a fellow TEA-dwagon, ya know...
mnem
Well, even though I did not get anything from that seller, I finally got hold of a bench multimeter. I am now the owner of an HP 3468A for $150CAD. Not quite as nice a meter as the other one, but far less expensive! This one also needs some cosmetic cleanup. Thanks everyone for introducing me to this hobby
Pictures are mandatory, as I understand:
As you can see, I also received a couple of parts for my new computer build.
So far I have selected (remember this is on a budget):
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor (received)
- ASRock B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (only way I can find this is if I convince a buddy to buy it and reship to me)
- G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (can only find the 32 GB version at the moment; forced upgrade )
- Western Digital SN750 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (pickup tomorrow)
- Western Digital Blue 4 TB HDD (received)
- EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB KO GAMING Video Card (or a MSI GeForce RTX 2060 VENTUS XS for $10 more)
- Deepcool MATREXX 55 ATX Mid Tower Case (2nd pickup tomorrow)
- EVGA GD (2019) 500 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (2nd pickup tomorrow)
Availability of parts keeps diminishing and I am really not sure if I can get a B450 motherboard at all; I may need to update further.
@mnementh & @Kosmic, if you are looking for more gear, there is this Kijiji ad ID 1486743331 in the Montreal area. I have not had the chance to go through the list; it is quite lengthy and I do not know if anything there matches my needs. Of course, there must be lots that matches my wants
@BU508A, thanks for the teardown of that Grundig. You are helping along my interest in adding a counter an nixies to my required tools
So far I have selected (remember this is on a budget):
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 3.8 GHz 6-Core Processor (received)
- ASRock B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard (only way I can find this is if I convince a buddy to buy it and reship to me)
- G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (can only find the 32 GB version at the moment; forced upgrade )
- Western Digital SN750 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (pickup tomorrow)
- Western Digital Blue 4 TB HDD (received)
- EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB KO GAMING Video Card (or a MSI GeForce RTX 2060 VENTUS XS for $10 more)
- Deepcool MATREXX 55 ATX Mid Tower Case (2nd pickup tomorrow)
- EVGA GD (2019) 500 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (2nd pickup tomorrow)
Availability of parts keeps diminishing and I am really not sure if I can get a B450 motherboard at all;
get the TridentZ Neo 3600 RAM if you can afford it. It REALLY shines with the Ryzen Zen 2 (I tried it with the 3600x myself, very nice indeed)
The EVGA KO uses a slightly stripped down chip out of the 2080. It outperforms other 2060s by a fair margin on certain loads.
It is said to be quite noisy though.
@mnementh & @Kosmic, if you are looking for more gear, there is this Kijiji ad ID 1486743331 in the Montreal area. I have not had the chance to go through the list; it is quite lengthy and I do not know if anything there matches my needs. Of course, there must be lots that matches my wants
You should avoid him. I went there it's a dump. Electronic (networking, video, some TE) from floor to sealing randomly organised in huge piles with just enough place to circulate between them. All the lights are broken so it's mostly dark. Everything is broken, dirty and in really bad shape. Each time you want to buy something the guy go on ebay and match the price of the highest seller.
I should go back there just to make a video.
Fuck ! Yes ! I want it !
I'm also really tempted. Always wanted to play with X-Ray
@mnementh & @Kosmic, if you are looking for more gear, there is this Kijiji ad ID 1486743331 in the Montreal area. I have not had the chance to go through the list; it is quite lengthy and I do not know if anything there matches my needs. Of course, there must be lots that matches my wants
You should avoid him. I went there it's a dump. Electronic (networking, video, some TE) from floor to sealing randomly organised in huge piles with just enough place to circulate between them. All the lights are broken so it's mostly dark. Everything is broken, dirty and in really bad shape. Each time you want to buy something the guy go on ebay and match the price of the highest seller.
I should go back there just to make a video.
Thanks for doing the legwork and saving me some misery, K.
From what I can see so far in his 500+ Kijiji ads, I don't think I'd touch anything he has unless it was at no-power HamFest "give it a punt" prices. Since he's on the other end of the continent from me, shipping would pretty much make that a non-starter.
mnem
"Yes sir, that has our famous 2-20 guarantee; 2 minutes or 20 feet, whichever comes first. You carry it 20 feet and it breaks in half; Congratulations! You now own two pieces."
Only if it gives the mathematically correct result to "1+2*3=". If not, then even the Sinclair Scientific would be more accurate
There's no single mathematically correct answer to that, only one of convention and poorly defined problems.
Hey kid, want to see some dogmatic fist shaking?
Fuck ! Yes ! I want it !
I'm also really tempted. Always wanted to play with X-Ray
I like it, but the $225 shipping is a bit steep.