Parts, documentation and other bits and pieces

Aside from scrounging defunct PCs and other electromechanical items for spares, I source local and international parts:

Steel bars (guides) or Stub

Bearings SNR or SKF, Swiss bearings,
TousLesRoulements

Documentation for Tektronics oscilloscopes (full service manuals)

QR codes

This is a link to a handy Google API to generate the QR code for any webpage:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=200x200&cht=qr&chl=http://brikol.blogspot.com/ for example a QR code to this page  ;-)

Supplies, supplies!

No, that's not the old joke about the Vietnamese scout supposed to organise the supplies to the platoon, who, ten days later, jumps out of the jungle screaming "suplise-suplise!"

I just needed a place where to store the URL of a place where I ordered a bunch of LED lamps (including a couple of LED strips to light my workspace) : Dealextreme