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ISTR a French pre-euro banknote with a "spelling" error - actually a missing accent in the name of someone pictured. It was in circulation six months before anyone noticed.

Whatever comes in. Primarily collectors/retro stuff where ideally you want to keep as much original as possible. Some of the early EEPROMs were almost drop in replacements but power consumption tended to be quite a bit higher.

Yes it's primarily legacy stuff, like I said it's only a fringe requirment. If it was a lot I'd spring the money for a commerical unit.

With truly shocking standards of electrical safety. I've seens tear downs of them, bu the time they are safe you are almost rebuilding from scratch. I'd also liek to to use the bulb I've slected as readily available.

There seem to be widespread shortages of certain sizes at the moment, take your pick of Brexit/COVID/Ukraine. Many sizes they'll exchange an empty for you but if you want to buy a new one, no chance.

This is a bit of an out there issue for a forum such as this but if I asked in my usual places for something like this I'd get the response "don't use wood". Background to this is I want to build an enclosure to house a device that holds a UV-C bulb to erase older computer chips. These chips...

I suspect a right angle egg beater would be unwieldy in operation, a standard one with a right angle attachment would need an octopus to use. The only option that comes to mind would be one of the pistol drip hand drills which are a little shorter front to back, e.g...

Give it a couple of days, perhaps til Tuesday, I'm sure they'll be back. They've been in and out of stock umpteen times already. For a couple of quid, well it'll cost more than that for one of us to post.

Bought stuff: precision mini pillar drill, scroll saw, microscope, various random smaller accessories e.g. handheld PCB drill, plastic/glass tools and containers & trays. Obviously the saw and scope get wider use bit it was PCBs they were bought for. I actively avoid using the drill for more...

Hmm, it's within my capabilities but I think I'll pass. There's more SMD than I anticipated and correspondingly low clearances. It I was doing that I'd probably make a few minor routing amendments to improve clearances and sneak it onto a 100x220mm board - it's a standard Eurocard size. I'd...

I admit I haven't gone through all the replies but it it measure fine with a square and a tape don't worry about it. Looks like a smartphone pic to me - the lenses have to be compromised to fit into a thin form factor so barrel distortion (which is what this looks like) is one of the tradeoffs...

You should be fine for basic stuff - i.e. talk and text and even basic web browsing. If your phone can't connect by 3G the vast majority will fall back to 2G which isn't going to get turned off for the foreseeable future, too much infrastructure (smart meters etc) depend on it. The tinterwebs...

If you can send me artwork I'll look at it - I'll PM you my email. There's a reason I have a fortune invested in PCB fab equipment. A preamp doesn't sound bad but if it's more than double sided or the traces/clearances are too fine I'll be happy to pass. The Far East can be quite attractive...

In the absence of power it works as a momentary rocker, i.e. you can push it over but it won't latch to the on position and spring back to off. With power it locks itself into place, when the power goes off it then springs back. There is a bit of a buzz on the switch if you turn it off...

I was quite impressed by my phone. Was on silent and didn't make a peep, just the on screen message next time I truned the screen on. Then when I unlock it a dialog comes up "You're currently subscribed to emergency alerts. Do you want to continue receiving them?" Clearly whoever makes Nokia...

That's a perennial issue for electronics hobbyists (FR4 is the most common PCB substrate, albeit typically at 1.6mm). Commercially it's typically sheared/guillotined or milled to shape. Most hobbyists tend to score and bend but I've never been a fan and at 3mm I doubt it'll be a goer. Sawing...

[Jim Hacker is being introduced to his new position as Minister] James Hacker : Who else is in this department? Sir Humphrey Appleby : Well briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under Secretary of State, known as the Permanent Secretary. Woolley here is your Principal Private Secretary, I too have...

Been there done that. Of course you can swerve in at a left hand T junction or whatever to let a couple of cars past. The problem is that the next car wants to be the last one through, and then the next and so on. They are all dangerously overtaking so you have to stop when you end up with...

Reality is almost as bad. If it was reserved for the four minute warning I'd accept it. Even the odd important announcement e.g. "the King is dead". From what I hear stateside people turn them off as a nuisance. A careless parent lost their child twenty minutes ago. It may have been 200 miles...