Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[med6753]

Thanks for the clarification, though. I probably can tease a tea-dumper a bit more calling his sedan a saloon, so will adapt language for maximum cheekyness.

Tease all you want. My Civic is a 2 door coupe (not a sedan) and the CR-V is an SUV. And if I want a drink I'll go to the local saloon. 

No, it's a 2-door sedan; it has back seats. A coupe has 2 doors, 2 seats only.

mnem
*has owned 11 Honda Civics, and every one a sedan. Or wagon.*

Wrong Sherlock....Honda calls it a "coupe"

Edit...

[mnementh]

I find myself in a very strange situation. I have no pressing projects for repair/restoration.  It feels very weird. I must go shopping on the bay of evil.   

My wallet went into hiding. 

I'll send a few crusty 454s in on rescue detail. 

mnem
 

[mnementh]

Thanks for the clarification, though. I probably can tease a tea-dumper a bit more calling his sedan a saloon, so will adapt language for maximum cheekyness.

Tease all you want. My Civic is a 2 door coupe (not a sedan) and the CR-V is an SUV. And if I want a drink I'll go to the local saloon. 

Run out of rope then, have we?

No, but he's run out of rope lubricant, so has to top up with one of the American varieties of said lubricant: Budweiser, Coors, whatever. 

Lubricant? We don't use no stinkin' lubricant. 

Quite right. That's spleen coolant he's leaking all over his rope. 

mnem
*glad the only cat in my life is Cat5 or Cat6*

[vk6zgo]

From all the comments about the season change, this image has flashed before my eyes....



Come down under and you'll be greeted by quite the opposite!



Did anyone here model for that role ...?

Though, I'm not sure WA got the Fax------after some nice weather, Perth & the Southwest are back into grey skies, rain, & generally miserable conditions.

[vk6zgo]

Thanks for the clarification, though. I probably can tease a tea-dumper a bit more calling his sedan a saloon, so will adapt language for maximum cheekyness.

Tease all you want. My Civic is a 2 door coupe (not a sedan) and the CR-V is an SUV. And if I want a drink I'll go to the local saloon. 

Run out of rope then, have we?

No, but he's run out of rope lubricant, so has to top up with one of the American varieties of said lubricant: Budweiser, Coors, whatever. 

Lubricant? We don't use no stinkin' lubricant. 

Quite right. That's spleen coolant he's leaking all over his rope. 

mnem
*glad the only cat in my life is Cat5 or Cat6*

]I only have Cat1, but I have Dog2.

[Neomys Sapiens]

It's a lottery list car for me too, but they are notoriously unreliable on the electronics side (and every other side unfortunately).

And it has the styling only the English could love. 

BAM! 

You have no idea how wrong you are.

[bitseeker]

Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?

Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!! 

Capt. Bullshot is right. Use Linux / dd and it should work out in your sense.

https://serverfault.com/questions/4906/using-dd-for-disk-cloning

I recommend to use the Linux tool box for such cases: grml.

https://grml.org/

Thanks. I haven't seen grml before. I usually have ubcd, system rescue cd, hbcd or a general linux livecd.

For booting ISOs from a thumb drive, Ventoy is excellent. Carry a bunch of ISOs around instead of rewriting your thumb drive for just one. I don't recall if it had been mentioned among the gazillion posts here.

[mnementh]

It's a lottery list car for me too, but they are notoriously unreliable on the electronics side (and every other side unfortunately).

And it has the styling only the English could love. 

BAM! 

There's no doubt that particular Aston is a crime against motor car styling but I don't think you can single out the English for that.

   

Need I say, or rather show, more?

Love you man, but fuck that. The 59 Fleetwood was an award-winning design, and while I don't personally love it (I preferred later Fleetwoods and the El Dorado), I understand the thought process that went into it and respect it. Also, the suicide fins are simply outrageous.

As for the 58 Edsel... I'd love to have one. I'd sell it immediately and put the money in the bank for my son's college. The Fleetwood... I'd drive that for a while before selling it. Even in salmon pink.

mnem
*motorhead-dwagon*

[mnementh]

I did contemplate posting a photo of the PT Cruiser but they are so butt ugly none of our eyes need to suffer that much 

Yea, spare us the eye bleach. And you'll also wake up the dragon and we'll never hear the end of it because he owned one. 

Edit...aw crap, he's awake. 

mnem
Only if it's a ragtop.

[Kosmic]

Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?

Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!! 

Capt. Bullshot is right. Use Linux / dd and it should work out in your sense.

https://serverfault.com/questions/4906/using-dd-for-disk-cloning

I recommend to use the Linux tool box for such cases: grml.

https://grml.org/

Thanks. I haven't seen grml before. I usually have ubcd, system rescue cd, hbcd or a general linux livecd.

For booting ISOs from a thumb drive, Ventoy is excellent. Carry a bunch of ISOs around instead of rewriting your thumb drive for just one. I don't recall if it had been mentioned among the gazillion posts here.

No didn't know about it. But it look like a really good idea, will give it a try thanks!

[mnementh]

Thanks for the clarification, though. I probably can tease a tea-dumper a bit more calling his sedan a saloon, so will adapt language for maximum cheekyness.

Tease all you want. My Civic is a 2 door coupe (not a sedan) and the CR-V is an SUV. And if I want a drink I'll go to the local saloon. 

No, it's a 2-door sedan; it has back seats. A coupe has 2 doors, 2 seats only.

mnem
*has owned 11 Honda Civics, and every one a sedan. Or wagon.*

Wrong Sherlock....Honda calls it a "coupe"Edit...   

A car manufacturer playing fast and loose with the English language...? Who'd ever imagine that... A coupe is a very specific thing, and has been for a very long time. it is defined by the lack of rear seats.

Calling a sedan a coupe is just marketing wank to make it sound sporty.

mnem
 

[med6753]

Thanks for the clarification, though. I probably can tease a tea-dumper a bit more calling his sedan a saloon, so will adapt language for maximum cheekyness.

Tease all you want. My Civic is a 2 door coupe (not a sedan) and the CR-V is an SUV. And if I want a drink I'll go to the local saloon. 

No, it's a 2-door sedan; it has back seats. A coupe has 2 doors, 2 seats only.

mnem
*has owned 11 Honda Civics, and every one a sedan. Or wagon.*

Wrong Sherlock....Honda calls it a "coupe"Edit...   

A car manufacturer playing fast and loose with the English language...? Who'd ever imagine that... A coupe is a very specific thing, and has been for a very long time. it is defined by the lack of rear seats.

Calling a sedan a coupe is just marketing wank to make it sound sporty.

mnem
 

I can put the back seat down if that makes you happy. 

[bitseeker]

Ah, analog oscilloscopes aren't limited to just the usual wiggly traces, scope music, and clock faces.

https://github.com/schlae/scopetrex

[mnementh]

A car manufacturer playing fast and loose with the English language...? Who'd ever imagine that... A coupe is a very specific thing, and has been for a very long time. it is defined by the lack of rear seats.

Calling a sedan a coupe is just marketing wank to make it sound sporty.

mnem
 

I can put the back seat down if that makes you happy. 

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_NSX_(first_generation)


    Actually, that reminds me... this afternoon while I was road-runnin' I saw an example of an actual coupe made by Honda: a First-gen Acura NSX, and it was in nigh-pristine condition; which I haven't seen one of in probably at least 5 years. Would definitely drive that.

mnem
vroom.

[mansaxel]

Makes me wonder what the cal cost on top of that, for units that got it...

mnem
 

Leatherneck time. They make it themselves. As far as I can tell. Now, with the Corps as with any other US branch of directed violence, one never knows when The Contractor shows up and eats huge amounts of tax money.

[Saskia]

Ah, analog oscilloscopes aren't limited to just the usual wiggly traces, scope music, and clock faces.

https://github.com/schlae/scopetrex

oh. I still have the complete parts set, but never gotten around to throwing it together.
Fortunately I also have an original Vectrex, so no copyright infringement there ...
Eeeet eeees a fun console.
Had to repair the joystick, which works great now.

Hmm. Scopetrex and 212 should work. Unfortunately I only have a 211 ... (and a Hameg, thanks to Captn Bullshot).

[beanflying]

Cruisy hour or so in the Sun squeezing 19.9x waterjet holes to bang on 20.00 it seems. Alignment pin on the right I tweaked for a slight taper from 19.98 to 20.02 at the top so I guess 1/2 way in must be close.

Really slow sub 400 RPM on the Bosch, squirt of WD40 to cut down on any galling and a cheap and cheerful 20mm reduced shank H7 Reamer.

[capt bullshot]

Had to repair the joystick, which works great now.

Hmm. Scopetrex and 212 should work. Unfortunately I only have a 211 ... (and a Hameg, thanks to Captn Bullshot).

The Hameg has X/Y mode, but lacks the Z input, so you should at least be able to see if the board works. Z input seems rare at the simple 2ch oscilloscopes.

[dl6lr]

A quick reply, I think all seven boards are replacements, the manual from Artek is a little newer.
I can't see how they wouldn't work at a lower speed, with the 5MHz board in the correct position, just you wouldn't get the full 50MC.

David

I have the artek manual for the 5245L issued 1965. I have the service manual from BAMA or KO4BB for instruments serial prefix 628 as well.  I see no signs of these board revisions. The artek manual however includes six revisions of the A15/A16 boards. And they state the two high speed boards to be used, maybe the boards 5212L-4A are even slower than the 600kc of the 05232-6016?

When I received the counter (serial prefix 408, clearly marked as defective) the higher speed board however was populated at the upper most digit, so getting the lowest frequency But board and nixie are defective, so I think he swapped the boards to get a 7 digit counter but broke the high speed decimal counter. Will try to fix the board (more than one digit is lighting) which should be doable unless the photocoupler assembly is bad.
On wednesday I get another 5245L with serial prefix 504, let's see what's inside

[Saskia]

Had to repair the joystick, which works great now.

Hmm. Scopetrex and 212 should work. Unfortunately I only have a 211 ... (and a Hameg, thanks to Captn Bullshot).

The Hameg has X/Y mode, but lacks the Z input, so you should at least be able to see if the board works. Z input seems rare at the simple 2ch oscilloscopes.

tbh, due to recent events I did not have time to look into it (or was just tooo worn out)

[TERRA Operative]

On the repair front, I opened up my recently acquired HP 334A Distortion Analyzer.

Looks like it's due for a full recap... Some of the Vishay Sprague 30D caps are well on their way to turning themselves inside-out... 
I think I might just replace them with radial United Chemicons, the 30D's aren't anything particularly special, just a general purpose cap, and for the amount of caps I need for this unit, I'd be spending over $150 on 30D caps alone... Even low ESR KY(x) series United Chemicons are almost an order of magnitude cheaper and the technology is much newer too...

While I'm at it, I might replace all the nasty drifty and noisy carbon composite resistors with equivalent 50/100ppm 1% metal film types as I can get them cheap in Akihabara.

Besides that, it looks almost as clean inside as the day it was made.

For the two big boys you may have trouble with height if you go with a radial replacement. But I'll bet if you upgraded to 3300uf axial rather than trying to go for that oddball 2600uf you could get them relatively cheap.

It looks like some of the others are 50uf. Run with 47uf, much cheaper.

Yeah, I think I might just do what I did with my 5065A, I extended one leg of a radial cap with some tinned copper wire, then bent it up to run to the top of the capacitor then heat shrunk the lot with clear heat shrink.
That way I effectively have an axial capacitor, it's a modern cap with modern technology, and the heat shrink keeps it all insulated and contained, but being clear I can still see the markings.

[Specmaster]

It's a lottery list car for me too, but they are notoriously unreliable on the electronics side (and every other side unfortunately).

And it has the styling only the English could love. 

BAM! 

Allow me to translate:- It does not have enough bling or bright bits or humungous great fins 

[Specmaster]

With all of this discussion of the Fluke 27's here lately, I just revisited the specifications of those, and they must have been really expensive when new because they have a DC specification of 0.1% +1 count whereas a newer Fluke 75 only has an accuracy of 0.4% +1 count. They are every bit as good as the Fluke 85 which a newer meter but with the addition of capacitance and frequency added to its range, neither of which are as good dedicated devices, so anyone getting those meters with the EHV probes are getting a first class meter.

Precisely why, after much hemming and hawing, I went in with cyclin_al on the twins to save a few shekels on shipping. I think it'll be good company for my 189.

mnem
 

Yep, way ahead of you there, I already have 2 of them, in their MOD cases, complete with normal leads and manuals in my collection.

[Specmaster]

Thanks for the clarification, though. I probably can tease a tea-dumper a bit more calling his sedan a saloon, so will adapt language for maximum cheekyness.

Tease all you want. My Civic is a 2 door coupe (not a sedan) and the CR-V is an SUV. And if I want a drink I'll go to the local saloon. 

No, it's a 2-door sedan; it has back seats. A coupe has 2 doors, 2 seats only.

mnem
*has owned 11 Honda Civics, and every one a sedan. Or wagon.*

No I can't give you that one because coupe refers more to the styling of the roofline than the number of seats the car has, here we see photos of the Rover 3.5 Litre V8 saloon and coupe, but both are luxury 4 seater cars, used by Royalty and dignitaries alike.

 

[Saskia]

I am amazed at the power supply one of the chips I am holding in my hands needs.
It is asking for > 200 Ampere.
WTF ....