MattF
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little Myford now has her own dedicated chip vacuum cleaner living at her feet in constant readiness.
That's all I do. Large/long swarf binned, finer stuff vacuumed.
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That's all I do. Large/long swarf binned, finer stuff vacuumed.
roblane65
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Cheers I think they all seem to use the rack system my corded bosch does and I find it a pain .Shame they dont do another base though . I've got the router for that .
where did it come from they are not that cheap at FFX . Btw the big one excellent chalk and cheese between it and corded 240v .
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I use a (homemade) magnetic swarf stick for getting stuff out of a few awkward places when its being stubborn, but mostly just pull the long stuff out by hand and then use a dustpan & brush. The vacuum cleaner comes out occasionally, but I find the dustpan and brush quicker.
Onoff
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I was about 12 and helped dig a neighbours footings for his extension. As payment he took me to Garlands in Deptford and bought me the whole E12 series of resistors. Still got the metal case/plastic drawer organiser I sorted them into.
Time and storage conditions haven't been kind to my electronic component collection. Where I left them in sheds etc for years and pretty much stopped making electronic projects a lot of stuff has degraded.
Garlands - there's a shop to remember - at one time there was a clutch of electronic shops in Deptford - no doubt all trendy flats now. I bought an 'HRO' surplus comms radio in one back in the early 70's, and it was that that got me into computers when I realised far more 'traffic' was machine rather than voice. Got a very early microprocessor development system (SC/MP) and started decoding things received as RTTY.
Describing that and other bits I'd done got me my job at Ferranti working (among many other places) at the FCO, Bletchley Park, and many RAF deep bunker radar sites.
. . . all because of electronics shops in Deptford !!!!
Describing that and other bits I'd done got me my job at Ferranti working (among many other places) at the FCO, Bletchley Park, and many RAF deep bunker radar sites.
. . . all because of electronics shops in Deptford !!!!
Onoff
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You could sit in that cafe round the corner with all the winos from the doss house opposite whilst they made your order up I recall!
Filmers in Dartford, Stevensons/Stephensons in Bromley.....bought my first soldering iron (S R Brewster make) there.....Sendz in Southend, Rapid in Farningham.....all gone.
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I have the floor standing version of that, also a Nu-Tool one.
Be sure that the drive roller (the one on the left) is secured to the shaft properly. Mine is held on by a couple of grub screws, and somehow it has worked loose. One grub screw has stripped the thread, and the other no longer holds it tight so I'm guessing the shaft is probably gudgered now. Will have to strip it down and see what's going on
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Got this last night £50 looks unused 8kw chinese heater kit
And my virgin router dirs so i went for an upgrade and hopefully better wifi
And my virgin router dirs so i went for an upgrade and hopefully better wifi
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A second hand but quality anemometer. By Vector instruments.
The listing says the pole mount bolts are seized, its SS so probably galling. It needs a new cable too. It probably won't arrive until the new year, all I need now is a decent wind vane for direction, the Raymarine type from boats look good, and a tipping bucket rain gauge. I'm in no rush so will pick decent ones as the come up for sale second hand, I'm not buying cheap Chinese import tat land fill, its a new year resolution.
The listing says the pole mount bolts are seized, its SS so probably galling. It needs a new cable too. It probably won't arrive until the new year, all I need now is a decent wind vane for direction, the Raymarine type from boats look good, and a tipping bucket rain gauge. I'm in no rush so will pick decent ones as the come up for sale second hand, I'm not buying cheap Chinese import tat land fill, its a new year resolution.
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brewdexta
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5 port managed Ethernet switch and a Mean Well 5v DIN rail PSU
I wanted a DIN rail switch, but they are stupid money. A standard dumb DIN rail switch is about 50 quid, about 3 times the price of a standalone switch. OK, some of the components may be better and they are are ruggedised and sometimes can take redundant power supplies. But if its a DIN rail managed switch they are over £100 and its usually just a software/firmware change so the price uplift over a ruggedised dumb switch is unwarranted.
So 25 quid for the managed standalone switch, and a 3D printed bracket plus a right angle power connector for £2 and that's sorted. The switch is a Zyxel, Taiwanese made in China, Mean Well is the same. Its hard to avoid buying Chinese for tech, but I have had a couple of Zyxel 24 port passively cooled switches for a while and they have performed well and Mean Well haven't let me down yet.
I don't use wall warts for powering raspberry pi, I always use the DIN rail PSU, the 60w PSU can easily power four rpi4 complete with SSDs with enough left over for the 5w needed for the switch.
I wanted a DIN rail switch, but they are stupid money. A standard dumb DIN rail switch is about 50 quid, about 3 times the price of a standalone switch. OK, some of the components may be better and they are are ruggedised and sometimes can take redundant power supplies. But if its a DIN rail managed switch they are over £100 and its usually just a software/firmware change so the price uplift over a ruggedised dumb switch is unwarranted.
So 25 quid for the managed standalone switch, and a 3D printed bracket plus a right angle power connector for £2 and that's sorted. The switch is a Zyxel, Taiwanese made in China, Mean Well is the same. Its hard to avoid buying Chinese for tech, but I have had a couple of Zyxel 24 port passively cooled switches for a while and they have performed well and Mean Well haven't let me down yet.
I don't use wall warts for powering raspberry pi, I always use the DIN rail PSU, the 60w PSU can easily power four rpi4 complete with SSDs with enough left over for the 5w needed for the switch.
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picked up a cheap set of magnetic tool strips, seem to work ok, just need to try and keep swarf away from them...
I would imagine your newly magnetised tools will pick up all the swarf you want as you use them?
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Same here, I have a pair of them in a rack in my bedroom, so wanted passive cooling. The PSU failed in one of them a few weeks ago, but I was pleased to find out it was a standard third-party PSU. Found one on Rapid, and it dropped right in
Good to know about the PSU, bookmarked!
You’ve stopped moaning?
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Its ok, I am 6 foot 3
droopsnoot
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I picked up a 5-port gigabit switch yesterday, from a local "reuse" group. I don't think it's managed, but it'll do for connecting things and it had that magic "free" on it. Very generous of them, I thought, though these things aren't as special as they used to be.
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