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Ant wrote: Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:02 pm Anyone sat in front of any tdl rtl 2 transmission lines?

I listened to a pair in the distant past and they sounded pretty good in that room, good enough to register in my memories. YMMV, of course.

Am I bothered...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

The engine bay of a beautifully presented Rolls Royce armoured car, seen at TankFest 2025

I've been down to TankFest 2025 at Bovington Tank Museum today. Stars of the show were the Tiger I and Tiger II (King Tiger).

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I can sense some of what you must be feeling, Paul, keep going mate and make sure you care for yourself as well as Diana.

Eight weeks after ending my chemotherapy, and two weeks after my PET-CT scan, I met my consultant last Thursday. Mostly good news in that the chemo has done a job and my prostate tumours are much reduced and my lymph nodes a lot less avid, so the plan to proceed to radiotherapy looks to still be on ...

andrew Ivimey wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 9:51 pm Cucklington.

Nice, lots to do around there. A bit to far for me to pop over for a glass of wine of an evening...

andrew Ivimey wrote: Thu Jun 19, 2025 7:23 pm I'm off to Somerset. Great cheese, great cider, beautiful everything and we're staying in a nineteench century railway carriage ( with all mod cons) - wow

Whereabouts in Somerset, Andrew?

I'm off to Bovington next week for TankFest 25 https://tankmuseum.org/events/tankfest/ - the star attraction, a 70 ton German WWII King Tiger, is on its way over from France.

The stock internal wiring of the crossovers and drive units had seen better days and was nagging at me so this morning I couldn't resist rewiring the speakers internally with some BICC silver-plated PTFE sheathed wire that I had spare, now soldered to the crossover PCB and soldered joints replacing ...

SR222 was a Sansui...



Agree, with Shane, excellent turntable - the first proper one I owned and my nephew has just bought one for his venture into viyl.

The Technics SL-D3 is a pretty reasonable turntable.

I've replaced all the old electrolytic capacitors with a mixture of modern electrolytics and Wima film caps (for values of 1uF or less). Given the pitch potentiometer and speed select switch a good clean with Deoxit, and I've done a general clean ...

I don’t know if you’ll all be able to see this as it’s a link to Facebook, but can anyone tell me what this bloke’s on about? I think I may once have smoked the same stuff he did…

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16R9pbjxWw/?mibextid=wwXIfr


I think it's a modern equivalent to this

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Why is it necessary as I thought you said it was functional?


It's functional but from what I have been able to see (without stripping everything down) I have some reservations about the state of a couple of the electrolytic caps, so I thought it might be best for longevity to swap them out. I ...