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#3005334 3-Dec-2022 19:35

Bought a Brother P touch label maker.

I am not willing to use 8 AAA batteries (hate stuff going to the landfill) so I figure they take a plug pack, so no problems.

Right until I opened it up, and the plug is centre negative....

Come on, centre positive is the defect standard, its been years since I came across a centre negative device.

Worse, they use the same plug, so accidental polarity connection is extremely likely.

Most consumers don't even realise there is a difference (they barely understand different voltages)...if the plug fits then you use it, that is the way they have been trained with USB being ubiquitous .

How about sticking with standards Brother, there is NOTHING magical about your adaptor except you have the pin out reversed.

You can still hear the echo of the rude words I yelled including the claim that the engineers have dubious parentage...

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#3005336 3-Dec-2022 19:38

sir1963:
Come on, centre positive is the defect standard,

No centre negative is actually the defect standard. Centre positive OTOH is the de facto standard.

Autocorrect is also a defect standard.

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#3005343 3-Dec-2022 19:55

Oh and speaking of labelmakers - don't bother getting the dymo that recharges. It will decide it doesnt want to charge the battery, run it flat till it wont work, and then not charge it back up and say that its flat despite measuring at 7.8v and being able to light up a car brake light.

The handheld one has a USB port but wont charge off it, it has a barrel jack with the same wrong polarity issue and even then, wont charge off that most of the time. Best luck I have had was to run the battery down with the brake light bulb and then let the thing try to charge it for a while and it would hit this inbetween zone where it saw that it had some power in it so would print labels for a while.

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#3005348 3-Dec-2022 20:57

richms:

Oh and speaking of labelmakers - don't bother getting the dymo that recharges. It will decide it doesnt want to charge the battery, run it flat till it wont work, and then not charge it back up and say that its flat despite measuring at 7.8v and being able to light up a car brake light.

The handheld one has a USB port but wont charge off it, it has a barrel jack with the same wrong polarity issue and even then, wont charge off that most of the time. Best luck I have had was to run the battery down with the brake light bulb and then let the thing try to charge it for a while and it would hit this inbetween zone where it saw that it had some power in it so would print labels for a while.

Almost bought a dymo.

I had a Brother before (and still do) but it is in a box somewhere from when we shifted 3+ years ago and have yet to come across the box.

May have something to do with me having 300-400 old computers, manuals, disk drives, peripherals etc etc etc as well as a TON of books and we have yet to finish unpacking as we were going to do the house up...then COVID....

So in the meantime I have bought a metal lathe to learn on

Been finding all my Electronics kit and sorting that. I have started stripping down some old PCBs to recover RAM/ROMS/CPUS/IO etc from them and sorting them and sticking them into anti static rails (Hence the label machine).

Have a long break over Xmas so I am in the swing of things already to have a big clean up, throw out, repair-a-thon and have enough $$ and space to buy a Milling machine

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#3005350 3-Dec-2022 21:04

Buying some incredibly useful stainless steel paint tin openers some years ago off Ali and over time giving away or losing several so that I'm down to one, then being unable to find any more of them no matter which variant of the above description I use.

Eventually, eventually, I figure out that what I need to look for is a stainless mini crowbar...

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#3005371 3-Dec-2022 21:28

neb: Buying some incredibly useful stainless steel paint tin openers some years ago off Ali and over time giving away or losing several so that I'm down to one, then being unable to find any more of them no matter which variant of the above description I use. Eventually, eventually, I figure out that what I need to look for is a stainless mini crowbar...

I find that I get enough paint can openers when I get the sets of screwdrivers that I need.

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#3005439 3-Dec-2022 23:27

FWIW, a set of the 6xAAA batteries will last for ages in the P-touch

richms:

Oh and speaking of labelmakers - don't bother getting the dymo that recharges. It will decide it doesnt want to charge the battery, run it flat till it wont work, and then not charge it back up and say that its flat despite measuring at 7.8v and being able to light up a car brake light.

The handheld one has a USB port but wont charge off it, it has a barrel jack with the same wrong polarity issue and even then, wont charge off that most of the time. Best luck I have had was to run the battery down with the brake light bulb and then let the thing try to charge it for a while and it would hit this inbetween zone where it saw that it had some power in it so would print labels for a while.

I have one of these for work at it has lasted at least 10 years:

DYMO Rhino 4200 Label Maker | Dymo

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#3005440 3-Dec-2022 23:36

neb: Buying some incredibly useful stainless steel paint tin openers some years ago off Ali and over time giving away or losing several so that I'm down to one, then being unable to find any more of them no matter which variant of the above description I use. Eventually, eventually, I figure out that what I need to look for is a stainless mini crowbar...

I had a similar dilemma where my paint tin opener walked from the crate I was using to keep the painting gear together, for ease of put-away and clean up. Now my permanent can opener is an old curtain rail bracket I found in the shed. Similar to this: Sullivans Extendable Track Brackets - Window Accessories | Mitre 10™

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#3005541 4-Dec-2022 13:12

For those who aren't familiar with them, they're these things:

Incredibly useful, about a dollar each on Ali, and you'll need to get about ten of them because almost everyone who sees them seems to say "oh, that's pretty neat, where can I get one?".

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#3005543 4-Dec-2022 13:35

Trading one lot of moron students in the rental over the Street for another lot!

No-one ever seems to renew a yearly lease!

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#3005594 4-Dec-2022 14:19

msukiwi:

Trading one lot of moron students in the rental over the Street for another lot!

No-one ever seems to renew a yearly lease!

Yep and apparently according to all the anti landlord brigade its all the fault of the landlords, tenants are obviously being thrown out.

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#3005658 4-Dec-2022 16:23

Geektastic:

It's ridiculous. I thought these tech systems were supposed to be clever.

I think you've fallen for the Microsoft/AWS/Google marketing spiel.

If these tech systems were even slightly clever, Nigerian princes wouldn't be able to offer their wealth.

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#3005671 4-Dec-2022 17:35

richms:

I find that I get enough paint can openers when I get the sets of screwdrivers that I need.

In my case, the paint can openers are built into the wide, flat ends of the teaspoons. 😉

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#3005677 4-Dec-2022 18:09

MadEngineer:
Now my permanent can opener is an old curtain rail bracket I found in the shed. Similar to this: Sullivans Extendable Track Brackets - Window Accessories | Mitre 10™

Speaking of accidents waiting to happen :-), does anyone else cringe when they see someone using a 5-in-1 to open a paint tin? That thing is made up of sharp edges and hooks and spikes, one slip on the tin lid... in the US they often omit the paint-tin-opening bit in the list of things it can do because of liability issues.

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#3005712 4-Dec-2022 21:19

Trying to get a Covid Booster, booked online, went, they don't do covid vaccines in the weekend! I ask why the website accepts appointment, blank stare. Trying calling a couple of others, no answer, drive there, same deal no covid jabs in weekends. Total 5 places either closed when they say supposed to be open or not doing vaccines.

Finally found a place the following day, get a rookie and the jab is one of the most painful I've ever experienced (I think he went too high), and now not only my arm, but my entire shoulder, shoulder blade etc are all aching, and I have an unpleasant headache.

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