Just let loose this one where I futz around with a pair of essentially useless old bits of test equipment: A Century Capacitor and Resistor Analyzer Model 201, and a Sprague “Kwik Test” KT-1 Capacitor Checker.
I’d messed about with the Century in the past, and it still works fine. It’s basically a novelty at this point in history though, as you can see. Much better, simpler, and cheaper tools exist.
The Sprague, though… All 3 tubes in there are toast, and after testing them, I decided there’s really no point in even trying to get it working. It would cost north of $50 to replace the tubes, and its just not worth it for a tool I will literally never use.
Then there was this one, where I mess around with a bookshelf stereo that’s been “in the family” since it was new in 1985. It’s also essentially useless. One of the tape decks sprung a piece out of it and it won’t retain the belt pulleys any more. The record player is dodgy due to an aged and hardened drive wheel, and quite frankly the thing never sounded great to begin with. But, I checked it out anyway.
Going through my stash of other stuff I recorded and never put out there last year, and will be working on getting those done.
I also recorded a video on my new TAG-101 audio signal generator, and cleaning the strange and flaky RF attenuator control on my Kenwood R-2000. Those should be pretty easy to get edited and out there, since I’m not doing the multi-cam setup any more, just pushing it all through OBS into one file.
The stuff last year though, is dual camera or old live stream stuff, that’ll take a while unless I just clip it down and send it. It is what it is, but it’s getting put out there.
Heh, just realized I never put my “only fans” video up here either, so here it is. Thought it would be fun to just try and fix some old crusty fans, or if nothing else, strip them for parts….