What's your latest tech purchase?

[MagnyCours]

Just purchased my friend's used i7 4790k for ~$190.

 

[Jetster]

Nice friend

 

[P4-630]

 

[jboydgolfer]

Haven't bought anything recently, but this is my most recent gun purchase.

Blast to shoot, 30 rd mags, and more hitting power than the 357 mag.

My room mate just bought a Ruger AR 556 this week. Haven't had a chance to shoot it myself, yet.

My father left me a pretty sweet gun collection. One of my favorites is an Arisaka type 99. Do you want to talk about packing a punch, I fired my share of high caliber high velocity rounds but this thing it's unparalleled. They shoot a 7.7 x 58 mm round. The first time we shot it in the late 80s that was recent was about 30 or 40 years from the last time it had been fired. After some cleaning and some praying reattached it to 100 pound truck tire , attached a 50 foot string to the trigger, pulled the bolt, got back and pulled the string . It fired perfectly, but it also flung that hundred pound tire about 5 feet in the air . Compared to an M60 this thing had way more single round kick in your shoulder and complete with the bayonet it was almost as tall as I am 6'4"

That's a nice rifle though thanks for sharing

Sorry if the sentence seems a little odd I am forced to use my iPhone to dictate my point still there

 

[BarbaricSoul]

My father left me a pretty sweet gun collection. One of my favorites is an Arisaka type 99. Do you want to talk about packing a punch, I fired my share of high caliber high velocity rounds but this thing it's unparalleled. They shoot a 7.7 x 58 mm round. The first time we shot it in the late 80s that was recent was about 30 or 40 years from the last time it had been fired. After some cleaning and some praying reattached it to 100 pound truck tire , attached a 50 foot string to the trigger, pulled the bolt, got back and pulled the string . It fired perfectly, but it also flung that hundred pound tire about 5 feet in the air . Compared to an M60 this thing had way more single round kick in your shoulder and complete with the bayonet it was almost as tall as I am 6'4"

That's a nice rifle though thanks for sharing

Sorry if the sentence seems a little odd I am forced to use my iPhone to dictate my point still there

Damn, 7.7*58 is a huge round. I'm in line to inherit my great uncle's WWII sniper rifle. I believe it's a Belgium Mauser 1909 (doesn't matter much, stock and sites replaced, barrel shortened, no collectors value). It's a 7.65*52 caliber rifle. Kicks like a mule and hits hard as hell. According to my dad, it's just a hair stronger than a "hot" 30-06 round. My brother last used it for hunting Black Bears.

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

Hi guys,

I have this new baby (Ford Mondeo Vignale) for a month now, really pleased with it

 

[P4-630]

Hi guys,

I have this new baby (Ford Mondeo Vignale) for a month now, really pleased with it

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Nice car!
It's just that you got the steering wheel on the wrong side...

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

Nice car!
It's just that you got the steering wheel on the wrong side...

I am from Romania but I live in UK and back home we have the wheel on the left side as it should be I had to get used to drive like this in here )

 

[jagjitnatt]

Nice car!
It's just that you got the steering wheel on the wrong side...

Technically, its better to have steering wheel on the right. While driving a stick shift, You'd always want you right hand on the steering wheel, just like you have your right foot on the brake and gas.
Also you use right hand to open and shut the door, feels more natural.

I've driven Left hand drive(India - right side steering) and Right hand drive(USA - left side steering) both.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Technically, its better to have steering wheel on the right. While driving a stick shift, You'd always want you right hand on the steering wheel, just like you have your right foot on the brake and gas.
Also you use right hand to open and shut the door, feels more natural.

I've driven Left hand drive(India - right side steering) and Right hand drive(USA - left side steering) both.

Assuming you're right handed....
Edit: Interesting discussion point though. Look at how the controls are on a tractor (actually a combine), where the operator is center mounted and the controls can be put anywhere.

 

[okidna]

Purchased these 2 beauties last week :

Spoiler: keyboards

KBParadise V60 (Gateron Yellow, top) and Leopold FC980M (MX Brown, bottom)

KBParadise V60 (Gateron Yellow, pictured top) and Leopold FC980M (MX Brown, bottom)

FC980M, great build quality with thick PBT keycaps :

KBP V60, I love Gateron Yellow switch, it's very comfortable for typing and coding usage :

 

[FireFox]

Ordered today.

 

[AsRock]

Nice car!
It's just that you got the steering wheel on the wrong side...

No it's you, you just drive on the wrong side of the road .

I got these before this thread was started .

 

[Komshija]

Hi guys,

I have this new baby (Ford Mondeo Vignale) for a month now, really pleased with it

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The steering wheel is on the wrong side. If it has manual transmission, than this defect is negligible.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

In the past, almost everybody travelled on the left side of the road because that was the most sensible option for feudal, violent societies. Since most people are right-handed, swordsmen preferred to keep to the left in order to have their right arm nearer to an opponent and their scabbard further from him.

 

[Komshija]

In the past, almost everybody travelled on the left side of the road because that was the most sensible option for feudal, violent societies. Since most people are right-handed, swordsmen preferred to keep to the left in order to have their right arm nearer to an opponent and their scabbard further from him.

That's why it's better to have LHD vehicle where you can keep your right hand closer to your female "opponent".

 

[AsRock]

Right handed driving car allows your typical right handed person to keep there strongest hand on the steering wheel. US is more sooted to me as i am a leftly.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Jousting is believed to have started in France and Germany where it was used to train knights. The horses gallop at each other from the right with the lance held across the rider........thats why they drive on the right.

EDIT

ive got no proof of this but its a nice theory i just made up and i like it.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Damn, 7.7*58 is a huge round. I'm in line to inherit my great uncle's WWII sniper rifle. I believe it's a Belgium Mauser 1909 (doesn't matter much, stock and sites replaced, barrel shortened, no collectors value). It's a 7.65*52 caliber rifle. Kicks like a mule and hits hard as hell. According to my dad, it's just a hair stronger than a "hot" 30-06 round. My brother last used it for hunting Black Bears.

That's awesome, the arisaka my father left me is also from World War II. It was customary in the earlier wars for soldiers to take a prize whether it be samurai swords from the Japanese , or an iron cross from the Wehrmacht.

I like the collection because i dont agree with the "fear campaign" kids are exposed to by american society, and schools, that tell them guns are bad, and to be avoided( a healthy respect and understanding is the safest method IMO, then a gun becomes about as significant as a spoon) . Guns are no more responsible for deaths, than pencils are for spelling errors. anyway, thats not a topic for here, so i digress.

I hope You get out to fire it soon

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those are REALLY good looking rides, i looked ar one bur couldnt afford it , this is my old ride here, loved it. Chrystler 300C ALL options, SO nice with the Hemi too

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

The steering wheel is on the wrong side. If it has manual transmission, than this defect is negligible.

It does

 

[silentbogo]

No it's you, you just drive on the wrong side of the road .

I got these before this thread was started .

Now I really want to upgrade. Seems like my cheap chinese MM finally outlived its usefulness.
Even my tweezers are more accurate...

 

[AsRock]

You should have 2 MM anyways, been wanting to pick up a Fluke 87V BUT...

 

[silentbogo]

You should have 2 MM anyways, been wanting to pick up a Fluke 87V BUT...

I used to have 2. Sold my Greenlee few months ago (too blunt and primitive for any kind of delicate work).

I just want to re-organize my lab completely. Over the past 4-5 years I've picked up so much useless crap, can't wait to get rid of it.

Especially my new rework station. It was misadvertised, so instead of 700W compressor-based hot-air wand and an adequate hakko-compatible iron, I've got a sub-300W real piece of crap that can only do SMD rework at >350C (and NO F#$%*G CALIBRATION) and the worst 907 iron knockoff I've ever seen (fake nichrome heater w/ thermocouple that only looks like Hakko). So much for a birthday present...

Really need something like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNI-T-UT804-Digital-Bench-Multimeter-/131455912475

and this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A2VQA24/?tag=tec06d-20

That soldering station is probably [most definitely] manufactured by the infamous chinese YIHUA
But their newest 992D model got some very-very positive reviews and only costs around $150-160 locally. Even got the same bundle package with stupid QFP pickup fork.
Can't afford the good stuff like Weller or the "real-deal" Hakko...

 

[AsRock]

Yeah you gotta watch out for those fake Hakko's . Then again fakes are so close to the original these days in looks.

This unit is supposed t o be good Hakko FX888D-23BY, just watch some video's online to find out how to spot a fake.

O yeah you can get a good second hand Fluke 87v for $200 easy these days.

Yeah i am not made of money either.

 

[Random Murderer]

Upgrading my server on the cheap, picked up this pair for $10 shipped.