And what did we buy today?

[jean-paul]

Like these:

The AEG are made in 1956 and packed for tropical storage. Packed in wool, then in carton box, packed in a second carton box and that carton box dipped in hard wax (now removed).

 

[NareshBrd]

Raw tobacco, for moth proofing, will put in cloth pouches then in closets, better than moth balls.
$1 for 200 grams.

Toughened glass as screen protector, and a back cover for a cell phone, it came as a gift.

 

[Andrewbee]

17.25 Imperial Gallons of 93 Octane gasoline @ USD 8.15/gallon for generators for likely hurricane Hermine. I buy 93 Octane so it can also be used in the cars. The generators (Honda and Generac) don't seem to mind too much about the quality though, they run well on stale gasoline as well

 

[soundbrigade]

Two packs of Garrett’s pop cornd (cheese and pecan).
components (smd) to Neutron Sound’s QVCA.

 

[wg_ski]

A 14x60 mobile home. Well, put the $5k deposit to get it on order, due out at the end of September. It’s going to be temporary home while the new Barndo is being built.

Which I closed on today. It’s on the seller’s lot and set to be delivered to mine on the 27th.

And I signed the building contract today. Now that was a lot of money.

 

[Pizzigri]

I got a 1977 or so Toshiba SB820 amplifier. In incredible clean and pristine condition, for 50 euro at a thrift shop. It does NOT turn on. But, even if it has to be repaired, I think it’s worth it.

 

[haiqu]

A DMM works just as good. I once bought a NOS "digilog" DMM for that but it still is new in box for over 20 years

That having said...I still like analog instruments better over displays but only true NOS/NIB instruments so very sturdy aircraft meters and such.

I still have a pair of Honeywell meter movements that I bougt new at a radio club swap meet in 1966. No idea when or if I'll ever use them.

 

[jjasniew]

I bought a Shure WH20 headset dynamic microphone of ebay for $25, shipped. It didnt have the XLR connector I need, but I figured I could handle the Shield = pin 1, Black = pin 2, Red = pin 3 rewiring to an on-hand connector. It works; Positive feedback left!

Picked up a MTX TD75.4 car amp for $10 at a yard sale today, apparently new in the bag. Hopefully the sale of which takes a chunk out of the other stuff I've bought this year. I could give it to my twenty-something son, but that would be like buying him a carton of cigarettes IMHO; he doesnt need 300W RMS in a truck cab...

Another yard sale gave me an HP12C (was so hoping it was an 11C when I saw it...) with a nice thick leather belt holder - probably worth more than the calculator. Picked a Mitsubishi DP-6 DD TT for $10 in only fair shape, a new-in-box Bose Solo powered speaker system I shouldnt have paid $40 for last week...

 

[Fast Eddie D]

https://www.abt.com/Polk-Audio-Sign...Home-Theater-Pair-3003621400005/p/169216.html

Can't build something like this for much cheaper. Last pair until the logistics logjam breaks! I predict a price increase.

 

[Pano]

Bought this Bluetooth adapter for my Sennnheiser cans. It plugs into the cable connection and just hangs there happily playing along.

Works well enough, range and battery life are good. This allows me to sit out on the balcony and stream from my computer in the living room. I’m enjoying it

 

[kodabmx]

I bought one P4100 100X Oscilloscope Clip Probe with Accessory Kit High Voltage 2KV 100MHz Bandwidth
I found out my 10X probes are only good to 33VRMS

 

[PRR]

This month:

• A new washer
• a new freezer
• a freezer-full of food
• an extra garbage-fee for the spoiled food
• a train ride
• a new roof

So since I am going to the poor-house, I pre-ordered the new Kindle.

 

[Pano]

That doesn’t sound like much fun @PRR

 

[leadbelly]

A train ride? How is that on the list? Last time I was on Amtrak it was <$50 (done Emeryville to Reno several times). But I certainly feel your pain.

No interesting purchases lately. A couple of cheap ball caps on Aliexpress yesterday.

 

[mountainman bob]

Scored a pair of ADS L880/2

Catch is they are up north, but a friend of mine lives in the next town over and is picking them up for me…..problem is he winters down here and will not be coming until January!

 

[diypole]

Building a compact system right now, and around the fourth beer last night I came upon the 8" ultimax cabinet bundle. Another 12% off with the flash sale yesterday and today. I can't build the boxes for that price....threw 2 of them in the cart for a stereo pair, saved another $45 or so. Woke up not regretting it.

 

[gerrittube]

Dongle for monitoring the energy use in our entire household, using our standard “smart” energy meter (connected to the “P1” port), with an app for all measurements, grahpics and statistics.

Regards, Gerrit

 

[jjasniew]

Bought a LINE 6 Spider IV 15 for $20 at Goodwill. Whoever owned it hadnt even peeled the display label off the grille cloth. Being an all digital device, I at first thought it was defective. Seems whenever you turn it on, all the controls come up to some factory preset values; you have to go across all of them "wiggling" their set position to get the amp back to your settings.

I guess I've never seen anything with knob controls behave like that! Ex; if you have the reverb control turned down to "off", reverb comes back on with the next power cycle. Must save a "power loss" signal and few lines of code to store the panel settings...it must have NV ram, as of course, its original programming code is stored. Or, its easy to think about such a feature, really hard to actually put it into the system...

 

[soundbrigade]

Components för a VCLFO and a Step Sequencer, along with two CDs, Marillion and The Doves latest. Also a book by Monks - Arduino the next step.

 

[NareshBrd]

Maybe the battery or cap for storing operation settings is run down...

Some PLC have a fixed memory, which not everybody can change, and a settings memory, for the job being done.See inside, as it was not used for a long time.