Many thanks for the replies. In the end I settled for a new 1m 3phono to
phono lead and a 3 way phono adapter with sockets on both sides.
Rod

In article ,
Old Fart at Play wrote:
It is a terrible pity that I didn't have the foresight to
buy up a load of valves when they were cheap!

There's plenty of the more common audio types on Ebay. And NOS rather than
Russian.

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*There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

In article ,
Old Fart at Play wrote:
It is a terrible pity that I didn't have the foresight to
buy up a load of valves when they were cheap!

There's plenty of the more common audio types on Ebay. And NOS rather than
Russian.

--
*There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.

Dave Plowman London SW 12
RIP Acorn

Dave Plowman wrote:

In article ,
Old Fart at Play wrote:

It is a terrible pity that I didn't have the foresight to
buy up a load of valves when they were cheap!


There's plenty of the more common audio types on Ebay. And NOS rather than
Russian.


greed
Yes but just think if you had a Shed with a pallet of 300b's you had
bought for £300 twenty years ago...
/greed

You could sell them and buy some good valves....

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Nick

Dave Plowman wrote:

In article ,
Old Fart at Play wrote:

It is a terrible pity that I didn't have the foresight to
buy up a load of valves when they were cheap!


There's plenty of the more common audio types on Ebay. And NOS rather than
Russian.


greed
Yes but just think if you had a Shed with a pallet of 300b's you had
bought for £300 twenty years ago...
/greed

You could sell them and buy some good valves....

--
Nick

In article , Nick Gorham
writes
Old Fart at Play wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:


But it must be getting more difficult to
source discreet non surface mount stuff these days.



Ann Summers? Discretion assured!

When I were a lad you could bicycle down to the corner shop
at any hour and buy a BC108 or a 2N3055.


Funny you should say that, when I first got into electronics at the age
of 13 (ish) in 1973, I did have a corner shop in Peterborough, that did
sell such things. Mind you, everything I build from that shop (Torr's
electronics, in Lincon Road PB, the shop and the corner are long gone)
never worked. it was only after I started getting bits from Watford
Electronics via PW, that things started working.

It is a terrible pity that I didn't have the foresight to
buy up a load of valves when they were cheap!


Tell me about it...


We're quite fortunate to still have H Gee's shop at 94 Mill road in
Cambridge. Its amazing what they still supply there, valves even!.....
--
Tony Sayer

In article , Nick Gorham
writes
Old Fart at Play wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:


But it must be getting more difficult to
source discreet non surface mount stuff these days.



Ann Summers? Discretion assured!

When I were a lad you could bicycle down to the corner shop
at any hour and buy a BC108 or a 2N3055.


Funny you should say that, when I first got into electronics at the age
of 13 (ish) in 1973, I did have a corner shop in Peterborough, that did
sell such things. Mind you, everything I build from that shop (Torr's
electronics, in Lincon Road PB, the shop and the corner are long gone)
never worked. it was only after I started getting bits from Watford
Electronics via PW, that things started working.

It is a terrible pity that I didn't have the foresight to
buy up a load of valves when they were cheap!


Tell me about it...


We're quite fortunate to still have H Gee's shop at 94 Mill road in
Cambridge. Its amazing what they still supply there, valves even!.....
--
Tony Sayer