Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[Specmaster]

I am trying to be good and not buy the Counter and I have had the talk with myself and eight is most likely plenty 

Oh go on........ you know you want to  , its Christmas, treat yourself                                                                                                                                                                   

[tggzzz]

Or you would maybe to a neater job with a stone for sharpening scythes. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=scythe+sharpening+stone&_sacat=0

Those would work; some even mention billhooks specifically - but none of the pictures have quite such a pronounced hook.

I have used similar hooks on long handles way back when for Thistles. I even used a Scythe ONCE for fun then got out the Brushcutter out for the Bracken as Scythes are to much like hard work for scrub.

I love using that billhook, but only for small gardening trimming jobs, e.g. taking twigs off a branch so that both can go in a chipper.

Scythes look great, but also look hard work. It can't have been fun when they were the only way to cut wheat crops.

[BU508A]

Can somebody explain me what this little explosion has caused after the projectile has left the jelly block?

https://giphy.com/gifs/vs-block-magnum-nKcTJ8P9t00LK

And for sharpening the hook:
Perhaps you'll find here a technique or something which might help:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8q2GgxOUS_Dzd5KIYeJQIw

I like this channel except for his electrical wiring abilites ;-)

Found this also educational:

[Zucca]

Obscure idea,

we should organize an AmpHour episode with all the TEA crazy horses here.

It would be soo coool...

[bd139]

The dude with the blue shirt hanging out looks like me   

[med6753]

No, I don't have a full beard like the nut on the far left. 

[beanflying]

Obscure idea,

we should organize an AmpHour episode with all the TEA crazy horses here.

It would be soo coool...

But I know I am not Crazy. 

[BU508A]

The dude with the blue shirt hanging out looks like me   

Means, you've won a Jack-Nicholson-look-alike contest?        

[med6753]

Would Saskia be Nurse Ratched??? 


Ain't I a stinker? 

[beanflying]

Would Saskia be Nurse Ratched??? 


Ain't I a stinker? 

Much more likely the combined incarnation of our Ex Redhead other halves. TEAbotomies all round 

[McBryce]

Can somebody explain me what this little explosion has caused after the projectile has left the jelly block?

https://giphy.com/gifs/vs-block-magnum-nKcTJ8P9t00LK

That's called the "diesel effect". Oil in the gel evaporates when the bullet passes through it, then explodes as the cavity collapses and compresses the oil vapour (much like a diesel engine, hence the name).

McBryce.

[tggzzz]

Can somebody explain me what this little explosion has caused after the projectile has left the jelly block?

https://giphy.com/gifs/vs-block-magnum-nKcTJ8P9t00LK

I would guess compression of the air heats it, and fragments from the gel block burn. Much like a diesel engine.

[med6753]

Would Saskia be Nurse Ratched??? 


Ain't I a stinker? 

Much more likely the combined incarnation of our Ex Redhead other halves. TEAbotomies all round 

That is too much to bear so in that case I want my cigarettes. 

[med6753]

The dude with the blue shirt hanging out looks like me   

By golly you're right. You DO look like him. 

[Brumby]

Just the perfect anchor for the owner of a 12RU box with space to spare Ideal for @brumby you want a Christmas present eBay auction: #223782538722

Shame it doesn't have the 1.3GhZ module installed in spite of it bieng stickered as having it.

Tempting - but I'm still on Christmas budget constraints.

Or if you would like to take SHMBO for a short drive to the Mountains there is this one.  Perfect place for SHMBO to bury you in the bush during the trip  eBay auction: #163978890034

Already have one ... and, no I don't need two.

Call me a Princess again I dare you ...... 

[Brumby]

I have a bone to pick about this ....

Just the perfect anchor for the owner of a 12RU box with space to spare

in conjunction with this...

It’s not over until you have a 42U next to it 

You have me looking out for things...  things I shouldn't trouble myself over - such as today's acquisition off Gumtree.   

Photos coming....

[Alfons]

Old Texas Instruments Pulse Generator. Works perfectly. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of the internal structure. Beautifully built.

You are with that outfit?

I did not read. Here you lose the overview
What do you mean?

[tggzzz]

Just the perfect anchor for the owner of a 12RU box with space to spare Ideal for @brumby you want a Christmas present eBay auction: #223782538722

Shame it doesn't have the 1.3GhZ module installed in spite of it bieng stickered as having it.

Tempting - but I'm still on Christmas budget constraints.

Or if you would like to take SHMBO for a short drive to the Mountains there is this one.  Perfect place for SHMBO to bury you in the bush during the trip  eBay auction: #163978890034

Already have one ... and, no I don't need two.

I also have one, and am strangely reluctant to part with it.

But would it actually be necessary for a burial there ATM? Perhaps a cremation would occur

[Brumby]

But would it actually be necessary for a burial there ATM? Perhaps a cremation would occur

That might fit in with the current bushfires - but it's not a subject we joke about at the moment.

[Brumby]

27 RU:
 - Lift off front and rear doors - lockable (keys supplied).
 - Clip in side panels
 - Exhaust fans
plus
 - 1x Power distribution strip
 - 1x Cable management unit
 - 1 pair of runners
 - 1 Fixed shelf with brackets and mounting hardware - NIB

No feet or castors.  (It's sitting on a platform trolley.)

Cost: The time and fuel to pick it up.

[Brumby]

It did earn me a small serve of "the look" from SWMBO, but this one is too big to take up residence where my 12RU unit currently sits (which no doubtedly saved me from a bigger serve).  Not sure where it's going to end up.

But I have it...  It's mine!   





    I am doomed.

[tggzzz]

But would it actually be necessary for a burial there ATM? Perhaps a cremation would occur

That might fit in with the current bushfires - but it's not a subject we joke about at the moment.

Quite; hence the

We realise it has to be bad, since it has reached mainstream news over here.

[med6753]

But would it actually be necessary for a burial there ATM? Perhaps a cremation would occur

That might fit in with the current bushfires - but it's not a subject we joke about at the moment.

Quite; hence the

We realise it has to be bad, since it has reached mainstream news over here.

Has reached here as well which is surprising considering how "self absorbed" our news organizations typically are.

[bingo600]

Just got 2 linears for my tnut-side





Also have a 24v linear on the way for my "new"  10811 OCXO

/Bingo

[bd139]

Still trying to work out a cheap enclosure for mine. I think I’m actually just going to bolt a couple of Hammond boxes and add some feet to it and a 3DP finger protection over the transformer terminals. Leave the back open.  I’ll mount one Hammond as mains in with fuse/filter/switch/IEC socket and another output one with a couple of power poles in it.