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Just taken son no1 to have his covid jab, hes had the pfizer one which i think all the kids are getting We all got it in september. kids were all just abit sniffly, i had flu like symptoms for a few days then one utterly horrendous day, then it buggered off. Emma just got the flu like symptoms. She ...

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Some more today Emerson lake and palmer - trilogy Fish - vigil in a wilderness of mirrors Pat benatar - in the heat of the night Blondie - parallel lines Hall and oates - bigger than the both of us Thin lizzy - live and dangerous Best if roberta flack Stone roses - fools gold 12" single 20 quid...

Complicate, disappear up my own arse, dismantle. This is exactly why ive built 2 versions of the arm. When I think ive come up with a better idea for it, ive dismantled the earlier version and built my 'better' version. Then compared it to the one i was trying to better This is the only thing that ...

Its strange this amp. i say strange, because the last time i heard it properly with all its ss bits in, about a week ago, i thought it was great. It was kind of similar my f5 in its presentation. Heard it yesterday, and it was great, but not like my f5. It seemed more 'free' if that makes sense, not...

Very cool ray, that red anodising looks great

Ta phil, just ordered another finger type one as a replacement
Might order a plunger type aswell at some point

Finally dropped on a nice mc cartridge to use as a test cart for this arm. So far the various versions of the arms have had a fairly wide variety of carts in them. The dv20 high output moving coil it has been developed with, the 760slc mm i broke, an ortofon 2m blue mm that peter kindly sent over fo...

Balls. Dropped my blummin dial gauge and now its not reading properly. Need a new one, the busted one is a finger type gauge, im wondering if a plunger type one is a better bet. I usually use it for chucking up bar in the lathe because im using an independent 4 jaw one rather than the 3 jaw scroll c...

Ah well, the roksan had more problems than first appeared. unfortunately the psu appears to be kaput. It would spin the motor under no load, but put any load at all on it and it just stalled completely. As if there wasnt any power behind it to pull the platter round. There are a pair of what look li...

This xerxes is an interesting design, the top plate is just straight 25mm mdf so it can be re made from bbp. Sits on three towers consisting of a bolt with a set of rubber bushes on them. The cutout in the top plate is why it sags, the arm and bearing weight just bends it over time. Ive had it to bi...

Got a pair of lencos and a 1988 roksan xerxes in from a customer this morning, the xerxes has the classic sagged top plate making it unusable. said id take a look at it to see if it can be properly fixed rather than bodged with a plate and a bit of thick rubber. Hopefully i can remanutacture a new t...

Yes - 94067295. Or whatever the number is

a total change of tack.... Xray spex - germfree adolescents :mrgreen: which is surprisingly well recorded for this type of stuff, punk usually sounds better if you gently go over the lp with some 60 grit to get the distortion :mrgreen: The sleeve is completely knackered, the inner sleeve was stuck t...

Stevie wonder innervisions

What a fab album