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Here is my nephew. He visited me to consult about PHP and MySQL. But he is very young and nervy when I am taking photos.

There was old stuff sales auction in some military base and our company acquired very old military radio equipments. All the stuff is the junk, but some details are interesting.

Small view of all stuff

High voltage, vacuum capacitors from transmitters.

Small box of high frequency transmitting tube lamps and high power capacitors. Up to 55 kVAR!

10…500pF x […]

I bought small, but useful tool. Sometimes it is called “dremel". Small electric bore with various heads to attach. So I decided to test it and to play with my testing plasma TV. The surface of the display is “scratched" with angle grinder. So I tested my new polishing heads on it. The […]

No new ideas to post in this blog… To many open projects and no outcome from them… Quite cold outside, my horse is a bit wounded and waiting for small cutting and needle-working
Found old IBM notebook, installed Win98 and inserted SMC wireless network card… No signal found. Maybe my neighbors didn't use any WIFI […]

Electric arc welders are very simple devices. The old design ones New design electric welders are quite complicated devices. But if you find in some trash such nice transformer:

High power transformer from big battery charger
You can connect your welding rod to the transformer secondary winding and began your welding jobs. It will be […]

I have new additions to my crystal oscillators collection. Now the collection looks like this:

Quartz Crystal Clock oscillators
These devices are not cheap ceramic oscillator, but real precision devices. I have one custom made crystal with paper documentation:

The resonator is exact 90380Hz frequency +-1.3Hz. Quite high quality?
Also, the devices look quite cool. They are removed from […]

This weblog, Lithuanian version, Fauna lovers pages and few other products are running on simple DSL line. Nobody invested big money to the server- we used usual computer trash. And now we need more power, as original celeron processor and IDE disk drive is lagging web. Especially web pages with MySQL. And the chip-set of […]