Their (and Hobby Lobby, Hobby Town USA, etc.) brass sheets would appear to
make a good substrate for making a 'short' for calibrating 16047x
attachments to HP LCR's. I have wanted to do this but haven't yet. The
pattern is in various publications for the attachments and meters.
Anyone with experience with this? I have heard that these 'shorts' are
available from Agilent for about $30 or so. I just looked on the Agilent
website for part number 5000-4226, available at $28.03 but noticed that it
has been replaced by P/N 16047-00640 at $8.88. What's wrong with this
picture?
I guess you could get one from Agilent, use it as the 'reference', then
check the 'home-made' one against it over time. However, for $8.88, why
bother?
Joe
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Subject: [hp_agilent_equipment] A Source for Tools Etc
This afternoon, I was in the crafts store Michaels and browsed the section
for metal jewelery making. They actually have a very nice selection of
various kinds of fine pliers, including needle and round nose, and various
cutters. For things needing 'a bit of adjustment' they also had a fairly
good collection of small hammers.
Prices were not cheap ($10 - $20) but today, there are few places where
you can get a good look at tools before buying. Certainly, they have a far
better selection than Sears or most chain hardware stores.
They also had some nice, small, thin metal sheets.
YMMV,
-John
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