greetings welcome back to my basement it is Mailbag Monday and the beer of
the day is Fort Gary Dark ale, an English mild ale
as you can see it matches my usual colour pallet for beer preference and it's
quite nice quite nice indeed so the first thing in the mail bag
extravaganza is computer accessory
seems reasonable little plastic spatula things hmm scraper for solder paste flux
silicon best price two units good quality from tinkin nawa Hoonah ... sure
okay that's that's a name they're currently selling and for buck 57 but I
lucked out and got it at auction for 20 whole Canadian cents with free shipping
so I think I can live with that do they show it in action there they go
there they show it in action they're sure
that's actually not skraping solder paste but whatever I guess you'd use it
for spreading heatsink goo as well you know they don't say anything about it
down here other than show the same pictures again all right next item which
is electronic
some surface mount components SS14 I think that kind of says 50 pieces
see if we can zoom in on them and find out what they are
ss 14 they look like they've got a band against one end of them so are those
diodes that would sort of make sense I guess if that's what's really going on
and yeah the probably is 50 pieces let's go find them 50 pieces ss 14 1 in 5 8 1
9 1 in 5 8 1 why do they say that twice 1 amp 40 volt SMA do 2 a1 4 AC SMD
Schottky diodes uh-huh from zq8 currently selling for a dollar thirty
two Canadian I got them at auction for 80 cents Canadian with free shipping and
yeah so one at 40 volt surfers no diodes and just to confirm here is a datasheet
still says one amp SS 14 is 40 volts maximum peak reverse voltage and one amp
current and half a volt forward drop that's a reasonable enough okay what do
we have here we have one x wire it's got a card
who'd this come from somebody called sky fires
yes key t foyer okay what do we got here definitely water it's got a little jst
connector on one end and oh oh it's just one of those this is one temperature
sensor things isn't it okay looks fairly moisture resistant waterproof
temperature sensor temp probe thermistor NTC 10k
be 395 0-2 meter 3 meter 10 meter 20 meter
I bought the 2 meter it's currently selling for 442 Canadian from this guy
in pre-funded for cheaper but I got it at auction for 36 whole cents patience
pays off so looks like it's just a standard NTC 10k ohm temperature probe
not much to say here - 60 Celsius up 210 degrees Celsius I've never used one of
these before fortunately the Internet is full of
information including this temperature vs. resistance conversion chart for 10k
thermistors which I think will come in handy right about now
well let's just try this thing out shall we
does that make it easier for you to read that really sort of so at just my
workbench temperature the eleven point seven zero to K which according to the
chart is about 70 Fahrenheit well between seventy seventy one
Fahrenheit so what happens if I clench it in my sweaty palms here it'd be a lot
easier I had three hands I could put some put some quick blades
and connectors and stuff on here but I don't want to add excess resistance so
well yeah that's just dropping in impedance resistance so seven point four
three wait for the boys
okay that's pretty close to 7.0 yeah slowing down anyways that according to
the chart is about in 92 degrees Fahrenheit okay what else can they
measure the temperature of around here uh-huh
it says this thing's waterproof let's find out
nope it's clean the alcohol will sterilize it that's what we want to see
the higher the reading the lower the temperature Soniya 17 and a half K
that's 55 or there abouts Fahrenheit or this much in in international units okay
that's it seems to be doing its job I don't know how well calibrated they are
I don't know how calibrate able they are but for you know cheap or cheap at
auction why not nope doesn't taste any different let's
see what's in this big day retrofit plate it's flexible and I can feel
something big in there let's open that up and see what it is
hmmm peers to be plastic sheets the one time they actually could have said
plastic sheet on it that is five pieces of I think that's styrene so that looks
like it's about ten and a half inches that way by living a bit that way which
means it's a metric good for you people twelve centimeters by 15 boat 12 by 25
their boats that make sense and thickness unfortunately I don't have a
metric micrometer so we'll just have to pretend here that is 18 thousandths of
an inch thick so do some math I guess them doesn't matter it's it's fairly
thin anyway and I'm pretty sure that's styrene the easiest way to find out is
it was some way modelling staring solvent here just cut a little piece off
I don't think I've ever used this speck as a scalp for cutting modeling
materials before so this is what is it I can't remember what the the chemistry of
it is it smells good though but it is a solvent type glue for modeling with
styrene methyl ethyl ketone that's what it is any K yeah that's and that is that
is most likely styrene ABS styrene plastic flat sheet plate 1/2 millimeter
to 10 millimeter by 120 by 60 millimeter or white toy 5 pieces set I got this
from Papa Moll they're currently selling this for 46 cents Canadian when I bought
it it cost two dollars and 85 cents so it's obviously gone up so this isn't
exactly the same listing actually so far all of these haven't been exactly the
same listing that I bought them off they've been the same seller though in
the same wording just a lot of stuff I bought was at auction not this one I
bought at regular price but you know it's still an awful lot cheaper than
buying it at the normal normal North American prices especially in Canadian
dollars I know some of the American guys are gonna say oh you can get that
cheaper at my local hobby shop yeah but your local hobby shops not in Canada
where I am so I did a little bit of searching and it turns out Nek is the
proper solvent for both styrene and abs so I'm no closer to knowing what this is
but just by the feel of it I think it's styrene hard to tell though
that listing called it both I don't know and the last thing for today we have
description chb to be 102 yeah not very helpful oh it's my skull starting to get
dull
but do we have we have a bag of clear LEDs what are they really they are white
so they show them again oh I know mr. green sheet that looks kind of like a
slightly warmish white to me I don't know it's kind of hard for you guys to
see though isn't it hmm and it says on the bag there's a hundred of them and
they are three millimeter LEDs 100 pieces LED emitting diodes six color
three millimeter five millimeter white angle DIY warm white a lot bright from
moss 9c top underscore or six another one that just rolls right off the tongue
I got out of the selection three millimeter I got warm white and I got a
hundred pieces you know a bunch of different kinds in there and I got them
for 341 Canadian or 380 Australian I didn't realize that our currencies were
so close to par anyway there's not really that much to say about them
color temperature between 3000 3500 Kelvin at 20 milliamps not much else to
say about them really alright here is my mailbag haul for this week interesting
variety again some styrene for model-making that's kind of neat down
with the take that took three weeks to get here the ural spatulas took a month
the this thing took 11 days to get here that's just shocking I don't think I've
ever had anything come from trying to that fast the Schottky diodes or they
they were a month and the Vega 100 LEDs was 40 days so those LEDs I remembered
why I bought them it was basically just to backfill my stock
from the LEDs that I used in my little candidate a project oh no I'm all
thinking upside down there we go oh so yeah it's always good to have
stuff on hand when the mood strikes you to do a project nothing worse than
saying oh this is great I got everything I need to do this project except for
this one thing and I have to wait a month for to come to China yeah anyway
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