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#10846 Re: Nothing In Particular
Crap ..
"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
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#10847 Re: Nothing In Particular
Actually, I got a text from the NHS saying now you're 65, you need to go get a flu jab
"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
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#10848 Re: Nothing In Particular
I had mine many weeks ago.
Next year I'll be offered the shingles jab, but I may decline.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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#10849 Re: Nothing In Particular
having a poke around in a cole lcr phono stage today that i was asked to have a look at to see why the mc section wont work and the mm section does. I think we found out why.....
IMG_20191205_115759 by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
that clear stuff is the potting compound, in this case beeswax that s&b used in these mc step ups. There has been enough heat inside the case to boil it up and out of the mu metal cans. a fairly spectacular fail. you can see on the left hand one where the yellowy deposit is, that the pressure in the can has actually broken the solder joint between the can and the top
I had to ring s&b to ask what it was as i was expecting the black stuff you usually see.
oh dear..... they asked me to send them over to see if they can rebuild them, that will probably be a rather large bill.
Its very lucky that the lcr transformers are still working as they show the same problem, but haven't failed.
IMG_20191205_115841 by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
so as it stands, its a lovely moving magnet only stage. it hasn't been used since we tried it alongside some others at mi dads about 9 months ago, its been sat here waiting for some bench time since then
Oh and i got another tt almost done, this one will use a verus idler motor stood at about 8 o'clock relative to the platter and an origin live conqueror 12" arm with a dynavector dv20 x2L cart
IMG_20191205_174536 by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
IMG_20191205_115759 by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
that clear stuff is the potting compound, in this case beeswax that s&b used in these mc step ups. There has been enough heat inside the case to boil it up and out of the mu metal cans. a fairly spectacular fail. you can see on the left hand one where the yellowy deposit is, that the pressure in the can has actually broken the solder joint between the can and the top
I had to ring s&b to ask what it was as i was expecting the black stuff you usually see.
oh dear..... they asked me to send them over to see if they can rebuild them, that will probably be a rather large bill.
Its very lucky that the lcr transformers are still working as they show the same problem, but haven't failed.
IMG_20191205_115841 by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
so as it stands, its a lovely moving magnet only stage. it hasn't been used since we tried it alongside some others at mi dads about 9 months ago, its been sat here waiting for some bench time since then
Oh and i got another tt almost done, this one will use a verus idler motor stood at about 8 o'clock relative to the platter and an origin live conqueror 12" arm with a dynavector dv20 x2L cart
IMG_20191205_174536 by anthony cresswell, on Flickr
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#10850 Re: Nothing In Particular
Blimey!
That's a sweet sounding phono stage. I contacted Brian Cherry regarding the circuit but never got a reply. I'd be really interested to see how it's built if you get chance to look at the circuit .
That's a sweet sounding phono stage. I contacted Brian Cherry regarding the circuit but never got a reply. I'd be really interested to see how it's built if you get chance to look at the circuit .
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#10851 Re: Nothing In Particular
SME arms no longer available: http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/phpBB3/view ... f=3&t=7653
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#10852 Re: Nothing In Particular
Watch the price of second hand SME arms explode through the ceiling! Think they are shooting themselves in the foot with this move.
Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
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#10853 Re: Nothing In Particular
A question for Ray P, did the earth move last night ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-50682105
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-50682105
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
G-Popz THE easy listening connoisseur. (Philip)
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#10854 Re: Nothing In Particular
I asked my daughter in law who lives in Somerset the same question.
Got a rather terse reply.
Got a rather terse reply.
The world looks so different after learning science. For example, trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burned, they go back to air, and in their flaming heat is released the flaming heat of the Sun which was bound in to convert air into tree.
#10855 Re: Nothing In Particular
and rightly so you nosey bugger!
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be
#10856 Re: Nothing In Particular
Well. it seems that I slept through it but it has been quite the topic of conversation at work today. Although it's a minor event on the richter scale people have been saying that their houses were shaking significantly for several seconds.pre65 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:36 pm A question for Ray P, did the earth move last night ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-50682105
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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#10857 Re: Nothing In Particular
Crap!There has been enough heat inside the case to boil it up and out of the mu metal cans.
"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
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#10858 Re: Nothing In Particular
One of my million years old back-burner project ideas was for a cassette recorder to mess about wtih. I got the transport, a nice JVC one, nice for its time that is, when I worked at Maplin, so what 30+ years ago. They had acquired a job lot of surplus ones for one of their magazine projects. However at some stage the tape counter bit went AWOL. But last week I saw one on eBay that could be made to work and snapped it up. It arrived, so then I'm searching for the deck yesterday, it should be in a cardboard box, no nuthin'. Gorn.
Then I vaguely remember having a tidy up and scrapping it, as, "never going to get around to doing anything with this"
Then I vaguely remember having a tidy up and scrapping it, as, "never going to get around to doing anything with this"
"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
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#10859 Re: Nothing In Particular
Oooh, that's harsh !
"Once you find out ... the Circumstances ; then you can go out"
#10860 Re: Nothing In Particular
More likely, just ‘living in the past’.