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by Darren
Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:22 pm
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: Slate plinths
Replies: 59
Views: 29628

Incidentally, that Pennsylvanian slate is a soft option compared with the hard Welsh blue used by Darren. He had a spat with this company a while back particularly as they were copying some of his stuff. Didn't we just, it flared up quite badly. Jonathan (I didn't know who he was at the time) made ...
by Darren
Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:10 pm
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: Slate plinths
Replies: 59
Views: 29628

One question from the slide show tho......If that water jet cuts the slate with such ease, then why doesn't it cut through the base that the slate is sitting on..I do get troubled with such thoughts from time to time, perhaps I should seek help. Ha, good point ED, Because the material being cut is ...
by Darren
Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:32 pm
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: Slate plinths
Replies: 59
Views: 29628

BTW,

Slate Audio didn't use slate, it was too expensive.
They mostly used marble in many colours and a slate conglomerate.
by Darren
Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:27 pm
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: Slate plinths
Replies: 59
Views: 29628

Wow, I missed this lot....interesting thread. I'm not going to comment on all the points, but the silver and gold spikes where both made from brass. Never did fathom why the silver ones sounded so dreadful, and they really did sound very different. As someone has pointed out slate is expensive, any ...
by Darren
Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:31 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Overseas shipping ?
Replies: 7
Views: 6117

by Darren
Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:20 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: Watermelon Slim & the Workers
Replies: 6
Views: 6589

Oh Frank Zappa is doing rather well at this precise moment !!!

Very fast music that really can show up some systems.
Gladly not the case here :D
by Darren
Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:07 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Totaly OT Solar heating
Replies: 2
Views: 3379

I used mostly bits I had laying around and spent £46 in total on what I didn't have.

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by Darren
Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:22 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Totaly OT Solar heating
Replies: 2
Views: 3379

Totaly OT Solar heating

I built a solar air heater yesterday as an experiment just to see what the fuss is all about. Today it's pumping air out at 106 deg Centrigrade, of course it's sunny today but not that sunny for the time of year. Yesterday there was no sun at all and it was raining, 13 deg outside plus wind chill, i...
by Darren
Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:31 am
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: SP10 dis-assembly
Replies: 37
Views: 23828

No ruffled feathers Lee, makes no difference to me who thinks or believes what. But Slate is CLD in exactly the way you described. It's formed from settling sediment over millions of years. Every year, or even seasons deposit different minerals or even dead creatures and plants forming individual an...
by Darren
Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:31 pm
Forum: General Vinyl
Topic: SP10 dis-assembly
Replies: 37
Views: 23828

Lee, slate is very constrained, incredibly so....

Guess you have been hanging around the Lenco forum?
by Darren
Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:46 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Latest customs moan
Replies: 9
Views: 6008

Something else that really bugs me is this demand letter you get from Parcel Force, stating that they've paid up front, you have to pay them & then chase up the inevitable errors yourself afterward. I don't know about you guys, but I didn't ask them to do that. No I didn't ask them, the last ti...
by Darren
Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:50 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Latest customs moan
Replies: 9
Views: 6008

There is no concessions for 2nd hand items,

ie still vat to pay on imports.

Guess you just got lucky?
by Darren
Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:50 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Burglarised!!!! be buggered etc - what is point ...
Replies: 16
Views: 11153

I had a particularly nasty Doberman guard dog stolen once...

I couldn't believe anyone managed it, he was even trained not to take food.
They took nothing else, just the dog.....
by Darren
Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:05 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Burglarised!!!! be buggered etc - what is point ...
Replies: 16
Views: 11153

Bad news Andrew, I can only imagine the distress. The only things I keep in the shed I even wonder if I should be keeping them !! That and some really heavy stuff like Greg says, hard to walk off with. I don't even have a lock on my shed, afraid they might damage it getting in... I have been thinkin...
by Darren
Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:01 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: Help an old Soulie get into some Rock
Replies: 27
Views: 17629

Ha, been listening to the wall tonight...excellent as is most Floyd stuff

Finally got the valve amps on tonight, it's been SS till now since we moved.

It's like having the comfort blanket back,,ahem :oops: