Friends visiting, old crap, and fixing stuff!

Well, after my next class today (12pm to 1pm) I am going to the lab to burn some time then aronud 2-2:30ish my friends Tom and Tom and my girlfriend Di will be here to visit me for the weekend as a late birthday celebration. We're going out to dinner tomorrow night, and otherwise just hanging out all weekend. Probably going to give my camera a workout, watch out for that later.

In other news, some careful dumpster diving netted me a free HP 3466A Digital Multimeter. It's dead, and after some disassembly and troubleshooting with assistance from John (K1JR) and Greg Linder (KC9OPU) I've determined someone apparently destroyed the resistance sensing circuitry (there's a damn scorch mark!) and that took the power supply with it. However the repairs look pretty minor and as far as it goes it'll cost me about $7 in parts at worst, and for that I get a nice, second, benchtop multimeter. I need to look at getting some more leads for this thing if I fix it. I'll post up pictures of the meter and the damage later. Otherwise we also found one of those Radar-gun speed displays they put on the highways to scare you in to slowing down. Similar damage, the main regulator is toast, so John took that one home to fix, who knows what we'll do with that.

People throw out the coolest crap, and I think I'm starting to not suck at fixing random stuff, and it's definitely a lot of fun!