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by jack
Sat Mar 02, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: The Quackery Thread
Replies: 360
Views: 190380

Re: The Quackery Thread

10% off on a Tuesday for OAPs. They never ask my age - why not? ...or as a replacement for HRT therapy - moderate those hot flushes... Back in the day when I was working in the City of London, in the Summer, the data centre staff used to charge a quid for 5 minutes in front of the chillers - they'd...
by jack
Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:13 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Replies: 36
Views: 6741

Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24

Take to Audiojumble or restore? ESL 63s

These were Sir Clive Sinclair's (allegedly). His cat has savaged the "gloves", he smoked like a chimney and stood coffee cups on them.

Sell or keep?

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by jack
Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:13 pm
Forum: Your Fave Artists
Topic: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?
Replies: 6152
Views: 1875585

Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Dave the bass wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:43 am
andrew Ivimey wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:10 pm There's nothing Spanish about 'this video is unavailable ' - or is it my phone? !
I dunno MrI, it seems work ok on my phone, laptop and tablet.

Maybe it's a Bedford thang?!
If he's still in north Africa, it might be local mores...
by jack
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:49 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: what are you doing ?
Replies: 1308
Views: 437090

Re: what are you doing ?

Super stuff. Really lovely
by jack
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: Jokes
Topic: A little light humour
Replies: 2698
Views: 1172134

Re: A little light humour

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by jack
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:35 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: The Quackery Thread
Replies: 360
Views: 190380

Re: The Quackery Thread

have never yet been really cold. If you have never been, I can thoroughly recommend Iceland. Iceland's a doddle! Lovely as it is (we really like it), it's not that cold... Try spending a winter in Newfoundland and Labrador - we hit -40C (before windchill) in Labrador which I remember well as it's t...
by jack
Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: The Quackery Thread
Replies: 360
Views: 190380

Re: The Quackery Thread

Could be right, too. I do like a nice bit of physics. However, when I visited a lab in a desert (low humidity, doncher know), we were instructed to wear cotton only because of the static problems. This was fine for me because as commented by a friend, "Sartorial and elegance are just words to ...
by jack
Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:08 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Replies: 36
Views: 6741

Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24

I looked up ECLL800. Looks like a nightmare waiting to happen. With shared cathodes, unbalanced anode currents are a given. And that phase splitter looks proper dodgy. I didn't see any audio measurements in the Practical Wireless article. If anyone can resolve that, it's you! Accept the challenge! ...
by jack
Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:30 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Replies: 36
Views: 6741

Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24

What an interesting valve. A one socket push pull output stage. I've got 10 of those, NIB. They were for a project that, like many others, I've not yet found the time for. At one time I had a thing for "spud" amps, so these made sense. E = 6.3V, C = Triode, LL = 2 x Output Pentodes, 8 = B...
by jack
Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Replies: 36
Views: 6741

Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24

12,000! Blimus! If you have any 6SJ7 (octal small-signal pentode), I would like a couple. I have about 1,500 valves, so I consider myself well-stocked. Do you need anything? Pentode stock: ECLL800 EL84 6BQ5 / EL84 C3g C3m 4P1L GU-50 / LS-50 GU-81M 7591S 12GN7A/12HG7 JAN-6AG5 RS1003 / SRS551 Sub min...
by jack
Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Replies: 36
Views: 6741

Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24

Often, stuff that glows. All depends, really. I am on the lookout for an aluminium fan (the kind valve Tek oscilloscopes had) to put inside my temperature cabinet. Moving magnet cartridges without styli for measuring in my ongoing cartridge investigation. Enamelled copper wire. But probably not cap...
by jack
Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:38 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Audiojumble 03/03/24
Replies: 36
Views: 6741

Re: Audiojumble 03/03/24

Morgan Jones wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:28 am So, what are you taking? Anything I might be interested in?
All depends what you're interested in ! 8)

Loads of nice BHC & RIFA caps...

Lots of stuff for building things
by jack
Wed Feb 21, 2024 11:18 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: General health matters.
Replies: 784
Views: 190404

Re: General health matters.

Got to be said.

Sh .. sh... Shockingly Shoddy...!
by jack
Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:07 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Alexei Navalny RIP
Replies: 1
Views: 745

Alexei Navalny RIP

Not unexpected, but still grim.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68316979
by jack
Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Interesting (non musical) YouTube videos.
Replies: 413
Views: 148782

Re: Interesting (non musical) YouTube videos.

Mike H wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:09 pm Wow. Remember making a Airfix kit of one of them.
Here's another one of Hanno from Sharjah... Note the HUGE landing gear to cater for horrid airstrips...

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