Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[beanflying]

Tektronix Road Trip anyone? eBay auction: #313080719471 Providing the NW'er doesn't come in from the Great White North Illinois should be nearly bearable.

[Robert763]

Revisiting the Thermal Camera Rabbit CAVE it is both expansive and expensive

I've got a used ISG Talisman Wasp TIC coming. It's got a 320 x 240  Raytheon BST (Barium Strontium Titanate) sensor with 8μm to 14μm sensitivity. It is an ex airport fire brigade unit so hopefully not as bashed up as most ex-fire units.
We will see when it arrives. I've also got a low resolution mechnically scanned Agema AGA 110 that is basically a civillian verrsion of the AN/PAS-7

[Robert763]

Things to do in Russia, when you're bored...

His first mistake. Owning a Hummer. Giant POS. After foaming it up he should have driven it off a cliff.

He would have no problem with a Jeep Fiat.
After a while, it is bound to burst into flames, conveniently thawing out!

FTFY (the Renegade is a Fiat  500X)

[med6753]

Tektronix Road Trip anyone? eBay auction: #313080719471 Providing the NW'er doesn't come in from the Great White North Illinois should be nearly bearable.

"Ran when parked". "May need to blow the dust out". "Stored in a garage".

And I was born yesterday. 

[beanflying]

"Ran when parked". "May need to blow the dust out". "Stored in a garage".

And I was born yesterday. 

I have seen you buy and bash worse looking dogpiles into running order again

[med6753]

"Ran when parked". "May need to blow the dust out". "Stored in a garage".

And I was born yesterday. 

I have seen you buy and bash worse looking dogpiles into running order again

But that's an overwhelming dogpile of trash. 

[factory]

Description:

26 - Bumblebee Capacitor Pulls .0022 10% 600v - PIO - Vintage    Vintage capacitor pulls in good used condition. They are untested and have probably all wandered a little. 

Please see all photos. Please see shipping tab for shipping options. Optional local pickup (free) in the Portland OR area available.

     Awfully expensive shrapnel.

mnem
*toddles off to get mauled by Thing 1*

There's an audiophool born every minute. 

If the vendor was targeting the audiophool market the price would have been much higher and the description would have been pure BS.

Correction: The vendor is targeting the audiophool market. He has other listings for smaller quantities of vintage caps at some ridiculous prices.

I think I missed an opportunity to make a killing. I should have offered up all the pulled capacitors to the Audiophools.

"Burned in and fully derated beaded tantalum capacitors"

"Gently used aluminum electrolytic capacitors run on 100% pure Tektronix electrons"

 

And they cater for the videophool market too, one fully aged & burn-in tested picture bulb, only $40 start price (think they would have to pay me a lot more than that to take that crap away).


David

[med6753]

Someone had to go to a lot of effort to burn a CRT that badly. 

[factory]

Motto of the day? Hit bd139 with keyboards? 

The Logitech G810 I got when Maplin EOL'ed themselves still works fine. 


It replaced a cheaper Saitek Eclipse II that I had for many years, the less said about the 'P' key the better which was occasionally intermittent (manufacturing problem with a spec of crud between the flexible circuit layers), the Saitek even survived my attempt to destroy it with Irn-Bru, not sure the replacement would (having said that I no longer drink that since they replaced the sugar with horrid testing chemicals, no longer 'original & best' the can lies  ).

David

[McBryce]

You could consider powering all that from a low-cost-branded non-working Powersupply, for just €250! https://www.ebay.de/itm/Voltcraft-PS-152-A-DC-Power-Supply-H-572-DL/154359328974

McBryce.

P.s. The original new price of this supply was around €70.

[capt bullshot]

Finally, I've got my speakers back. Foam was replaced, looks pretty good to me.
I'll put them back to their places and give them a test later. Can't do that ATM while in a teams call.

[factory]

Someone had to go to a lot of effort to burn a CRT that badly. 

Yeah they put a lot of time in to ruin that, they should have sent it to eWaste not eBay.

Pity it wasn't the 5AMP7A version and in good condition, as I have a HP scope in need of one.

David

[Brumby]

And they cater for the videophool market too, one fully aged & burn-in tested picture bulb, only $40 start price

I .... I .... am utterly lost for words.   

(think they would have to pay me a lot more than that to take that crap away).

Yup.

[BU508A]

I .... I .... am utterly lost for words.   

and that means something...

 

[Zucca]

You could consider powering all that from a low-cost-branded non-working Powersupply, for just €250! https://www.ebay.de/itm/Voltcraft-PS-152-A-DC-Power-Supply-H-572-DL/154359328974

[Robert763]

Had a first look at the 492BP. seems to be basically working including above 1.8GHz. 
It's very clean, nice bright, sharp display. Last calibrated in 2019 with seals intact  . The front cover includes not just the diplexer and 26.5GHz mixer but the extra display filters.
All in all very happy with it.

[Cubdriver]

And they cater for the videophool market too, one fully aged & burn-in tested picture bulb, only $40 start price (think they would have to pay me a lot more than that to take that crap away).


David

They were trying to improve it by making an internal graticule.  Reduces parallax error, don'tcha know?

-Pat

[capt bullshot]

Finally, I've got my speakers back. Foam was replaced, looks pretty good to me.
I'll put them back to their places and give them a test later. Can't do that ATM while in a teams call.

Time to annoy the neighbours with some Thunderstruck

Yes, they're as good as new now again 

[Saskia]

enjoy

[capt bullshot]

enjoy

You bet!

[Kosmic]

I got more metrology toys this week. I found this set on ebay. The price was fair for a complete set (1, 10, 100, 1K, 10K, 100K) so I sent a really low offer. Seller just accepted it  In the end I paid around 16$ each resistor.



They are NBS (National Bureau of Standard) style secondary resistor standards from Leeds and Northrup. The resistor is immerged in mineral oil and encapsulated in a metal container. To improve thermal dissipation they can be optionally immerged in an oil bath.





I measured all of them and they look good. The oil need to be changed though. It's supposed to be transparent and is now kind of brown.

[mnementh]

I destroy keyboards. They get hammered the shit out of them 10-12 hours a day. I’ve never had one last more than 6 months 

This particular one was an Apple magic keyboard 2 which died after 6 weeks. My eldest nicked my Durgod K320 as she murdered her Ducky one with some Monster. I sold my spare K320 a while back (Expenses claimed  ). So I ordered another K320 today (same day delivery) and it got delivered somewhere random but not to me  . Apple are RMAing the magic keyboard and I’ll get a new one Friday.

   https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XPHQW6G

I'm very happy with my Logitech G413 Silver keyboard. Build as a tank and it feels nearly undestructable.

Added to my Wish List for future investigation. I have to admit... since using this cheap-ass Redragon K506, which is built on just a cheap stamped steel upper plate, nothing less than metal core is ever going to be good enough again. Even tho it's a cheap n-rollover membrane design, the rigidity and distribution of weight make all the difference in the world.

Especially when it's getting hammered on with dragon claws/paws/hamfists. 

mnem

[med6753]

Someone said Thunderstruck?

[med6753]

I got more metrology toys this week. I found this set on ebay. The price was fair for a complete set (1, 10, 100, 1K, 10K, 100K) so I sent a really low offer. Seller just accepted it  In the end I paid around 16$ each resistor.

 mineral

They are NBS (National Bureau of Standard) style primary resistor standards from Leeds and Northrup. The resistor is immerged in mineral oil and encapsulated in a metal container. To improve thermal dissipation they can be optionally immerged in an oil bath.



I measured all of them and they look good. The oil need to be changed though. It's supposed to be transparent and is now kind of brown.

For $16 Canadian/piece you stole them. Good deal.    But.....are you sure that oil isn't PCB? If they date back to the 1970's and the oil hasn't been changed there's a good chance it is. 

[tggzzz]

I got more metrology toys this week. I found this set on ebay. The price was fair for a complete set (1, 10, 100, 1K, 10K, 100K) so I sent a really low offer. Seller just accepted it  In the end I paid around 16$ each resistor.

I measured all of them and they look good. The oil need to be changed though. It's supposed to be transparent and is now kind of brown.

There was an inconclusive thread about what type of oil to use.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/metrology/oil-for-a-leaking-tinsley-standard-resistor/msg2761572/#msg2761572