What have you just bought?
21-05-2016, 16:01
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nashville
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Rutherglen. Glasgow
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Re: What have you just bought?
A nice jacket for a wedding
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21-05-2016, 16:12
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#2852
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Perfect Soldier
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Worthing West Sussex
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Re: What have you just bought?
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
A dual channel amplifier module (Tektronix 5A48) for a storage oscilloscope ( 5441 mainframe) that I got gratis because "nobody knows how to use it". It only had one dual amplifier module when I got it and I've been on the lookout for another to be able to use all 4 traces.
This is from the States and is untested but looks in good order visually. I have the service manual for it so if there's a fault I aught to be able to fix it. These things are really built to last, gold plated everything.
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Arrived today, some superficial damage to the flanges on the control knobs. Fixed with some superglue. A quick service of the internal switch contacts with engineer's magic spray. Plugged it in and it works perfectly. Got me a bargain. 
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21-05-2016, 16:15
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#2853
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cf.mega poster
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Re: What have you just bought?
A new mouse mat
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21-05-2016, 16:17
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#2854
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Re: What have you just bought?
£100 of French food for the missus who was feeling "affamé".....
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21-05-2016, 16:56
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#2855
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Inactive
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Re: What have you just bought?
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
a vacuum food sealer machine
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Don't waste money buying the special embossed bags - any decent plastic food bags can be used by simply inserting a small section of drinking straw across the line of the seal to facilitate evacuation. I've been doing it for ages and saved £££'s
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Taf
£100 of French food for the missus who was feeling "affamé".....
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With a bit of luck she's now feeling "excité"... 
Last edited by Osem; 21-05-2016 at 17:13.
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21-05-2016, 23:58
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#2856
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Inactive
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Re: What have you just bought?
A spare LCD monitor for £8 from charity shop - not perfect, but good enough to be a setup spare - doing a new machine and transfer for a friend (that already had to replace a failed monitor) and I really didn't want to risk breaking my decent second monitor carting it around in the car.
Condition: some screen marks, and has odd bug that it's "out of range" on BIOS screen - good thing I don't need to tinker with that at the moment!
I've seen that before with some LCDs.
Also, DVD-RW drive (again £8) - box said Philips - inside was a slightly older (and non-lightscribe) Liteon 1635S - still an interesting drive as it's disc scanning capabilities are far superior to my main drive (a lightscribe capable Samsung, TBH, kicking myself for not splashing a few quid extra on a Liteon at the time I got that, but the Sammy was the cheapest lightscribe).
1635S now has latest experimental (modified 6S speed profile) firmware on it, ready to take second slot in my case (which I half reserved for another drive, a Philips/BENQ DVD8881 that I had high hopes for, but was the one Philips/BENQ that lacks their amazing disk testing capabilities, so that drive would not have added anything.
The "5S" series drive is also superior to the drive I was considerin retrieving from an old system, which was a "3S" series
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22-05-2016, 12:38
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CF Resident Dog
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: What have you just bought?
National Trust membership using a discount code and hopefully 6% cashback from Topcashback(but not holding my breath on that!).
3x day tickets using Tesco boost vouchers for Warwick Castle(while they still let me as they're stopping this soon).
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22-05-2016, 14:06
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Deus Vult
Join Date: May 2010
Location: W Mids
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Re: What have you just bought?
4x sealife tickets from tesco boost
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22-05-2016, 23:06
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Pete
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Nuneaton
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Re: What have you just bought?
New memory/upgrade from 6 to 8Mb from Crucial; has cured my laptop crashes obviously due to faulty memory chips, despite running memory test overnight and finding no faults
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22-05-2016, 23:14
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Deus Vult
Join Date: May 2010
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Re: What have you just bought?
GB surely? the last thing I had that had MB was in the 80's
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23-05-2016, 16:40
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: What have you just bought?
A couple of things.
A new lightweight wool suit for work
4 work shirts from Charles Tyrwhitt
Levi 501s for when not at work
Rose Gold 32GB iPad Pro 9.7 WiFi for SWMBO, as her current iPad is five years old and painfully slow.
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Last edited by Hugh; 23-05-2016 at 19:08.
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23-05-2016, 20:01
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Eva Longoria Fan
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Essex
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Re: What have you just bought?
A Now TV box with a 4 month movie pass from Amazon for £25 for my parents
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23-05-2016, 20:06
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Believe in yourself ...
Join Date: Dec 2013
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Re: What have you just bought?
Excellent MG I'm sure they love their gift.
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23-05-2016, 20:30
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CF Resident Dog
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: What have you just bought?
Quote:
Originally Posted by MadGamer
A Now TV box with a 4 month movie pass from Amazon for £25 for my parents
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Good deal Tesco also do the same and also the 6 month enternainment pass both with the latest black box which can sideload Plex.
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23-05-2016, 21:52
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 16,325
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Re: What have you just bought?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh
A couple of things.
A new lightweight wool suit for work
4 work shirts from Charles Tyrwhitt
Levi 501s for when not at work
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You still trying to convince him that you work, then
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