In article i,
Iain Churches wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:

I would be interested to buy good second-hand VU meters by
Ernest Turner or Sifam.


Ernest Turner
http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches...tTurner702.jpg


Sifam
http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches...SIFAM_AL20.jpg

Keep an eye on Ebay - do a search and save that. You'll then get
emails if anything matching that search comes up. Those and PPM
movements do come up from time to time.

Thanks Dave. I did that a month ago.

Other thing might be to use the scale from a broken one with a more common
voltmeter of the same basic style and movement. Of course I realise a
*true* VU has a very special movement - but many fitted to UK equipment
were only suitable for line up on steady tone where the ballistics aren't
so important. Some BBC spec tape recorders, for example.

The Ernest Turner is the best of
the best. They are very hard to find these days.

Indeed - the same applies the PPMs. The Ernest Turner movements are the
best too.

Sifam seem to be a strange company - I contacted them about a
replacement or repair for the meter on a Ferrograph test set and got a
pretty unhelpful reply.

I got a spare meter from them for my Ferrograph RTS without any
difficulty (though this was some time ago)

Make contact with:

Long since sorted. Can't remember who I spoke to on the phone - the name
gets forgotten long before the bones of the conversation.

Incidentally, I OCR'd and re-printed manuals for both the RTS2 and ATU1
and have the files for them stored. Ended up with a rather higher quality
product than the original duplicated ones.

Dawn Blackburn
Marketing Co-Ordinator
Sifam Instruments Limited
Woodland Road
TORQUAY
TQ2 7AY

Tel: 01803 407689
Fax: 01803 407699
Email:
www.sifam.com



Best regards
Iain

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Dave Plowman London SW
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