"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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Funny how I had almost forgotten about that old mic, and
all the fun we had with it (simple pleasures back in those
days:-) On Thursday evening my Dad and I used to sit
at the kitchen table and "make something", sometimes
it was a model ship, or plane, sometimes an amp or a
simple one valve radio. This mic was used with a one-valve
mic that had an anode cap - (pretty dangerous thing for
a pre-teen to be using), and a Rola speaker salvaged
from a "radio-gram" The amp was built in an Oxo tin chassis!
Later, the boy next door and I rigged a wire from the ground
terminal to a pole in the garden and fooled the other boys
into thinking it was a transmitter:-)


Shortly after that they packed me off to boarding school:-)
I joined the radio club and they taught me how to charge
up electrolytics. We we used to roll them under the beds
for the dorm-maids to find:-)

Iain
Sorry. Typo

Should read, "This mic was used with a one-valve
amplifier that had an anode cap.