Bye from Iain
 

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:52:26 +0000, Wally wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

A pleasant, polite, passing professional person who, previously
positively pulverising poor pathetic Pouncing Pink Pillock's ****-poor
posturing posts, paused, pondered and then pushed off.....

You'd like people to think that, despite the reality of the situation,
but then you're a hairy-arsed trucker, so who cares?

I fort is was a tidy bit of alliteration, meself...

naww... He was just taking the "p"...

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
Web: http://www.nascom.info

Bye from Iain
 

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:09:05 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
mick wrote:
There is nothing in the ng title to suggest that we are looking for
perfect sound - the word "audio" leaves a lot of space for those who
like to listen to single-ended OC81 transistors into 75ohm 2.5"
speakers!

Well, you won't get perfect sound from that. It should be 35 ohm.

Damn! Impedence matching can be a b....r sometimes!

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
Web: http://www.nascom.info

Bye from Iain
 

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:42:09 +0000, Stewart Pinkerton wrote:


'kin elle, you must be nearly as old as me! :-)

Maybe!

I was brought up on valves mainly - a lot of them rescued from old TVs cos
we could get them really cheap! The bloke from the local TV shop used to
turn up with a van full of old sets now and again, and I spent hours
unsoldering and drilling pop-rivets off the chassis to get the valve
holders off for my dad. I had to sort the resistors into old OXO tins for
him cos he was red/green colour blind. It may be all those early
experiences that have produced some sort of affinity with valve gear for
me!

I remember my dad buying his first transistors (the first I had ever
seen) as part of a radio kit. They were probably Newmarket, in the flat
squarish cans, and marked with green & yellow spots on top for AF types
and red/yellow (or was it red/white?) spots for RF. They were also rather
expensive and very electrically fragile!

Currently listening to the computer playing MP3s via a 6L6 "triode mode"
SE amp at the other side of the room. Things progress! ;-)

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
Web: http://www.nascom.info

Bye from Iain
 

"mick" wrote in message
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On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:42:09 +0000, Stewart Pinkerton wrote:


'kin elle, you must be nearly as old as me! :-)

Maybe!

I was brought up on valves mainly - a lot of them rescued from old TVs cos
we could get them really cheap! The bloke from the local TV shop used to
turn up with a van full of old sets now and again, and I spent hours
unsoldering and drilling pop-rivets off the chassis to get the valve
holders off for my dad. I had to sort the resistors into old OXO tins for
him cos he was red/green colour blind. It may be all those early
experiences that have produced some sort of affinity with valve gear for
me!

I remember my dad buying his first transistors (the first I had ever
seen) as part of a radio kit. They were probably Newmarket, in the flat
squarish cans, and marked with green & yellow spots on top for AF types
and red/yellow (or was it red/white?) spots for RF. They were also rather
expensive and very electrically fragile!

Currently listening to the computer playing MP3s via a 6L6 "triode mode"
SE amp at the other side of the room. Things progress! ;-)

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
Web: http://www.nascom.info



Coor, it must have been difficult being colour blind sorting resistors -
he's got to trust the right ones are in the right box ;-)
Takes me, its Red = AF and White = RF. That's just what I did as a kid
take old radio's and commercial throwouts and cannabilise them for parts.
Boxes of valves, resistors, capacitors under my bed drove my mum crazy
trying to clean. One early project I remember was a super-het radio built in
a biscuit tin..that came after a long line of silly Xtal sets with a cats
whisker and cardboard bog rolls for coils (least I think it was bog
rolls..its a long time ago ;-), messing around trying to find the right spot
on a lump of germanium..god that was fiddly, even tried it with coal and it
worked :-) When I finally got hold of germanium diodes it was heaven sent
though a bit late.... all our yesterdays eh? ("Jumpers for goalposts" -
fast show??) :-)

Bye from Iain
 

"Mike Gilmour" wrote in message
...

"mick" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:42:09 +0000, Stewart Pinkerton wrote:


'kin elle, you must be nearly as old as me! :-)

Maybe!

I was brought up on valves mainly - a lot of them rescued from old TVs
cos
we could get them really cheap! The bloke from the local TV shop used to
turn up with a van full of old sets now and again, and I spent hours
unsoldering and drilling pop-rivets off the chassis to get the valve
holders off for my dad. I had to sort the resistors into old OXO tins for
him cos he was red/green colour blind. It may be all those early
experiences that have produced some sort of affinity with valve gear for
me!

I remember my dad buying his first transistors (the first I had ever
seen) as part of a radio kit. They were probably Newmarket, in the flat
squarish cans, and marked with green & yellow spots on top for AF types
and red/yellow (or was it red/white?) spots for RF. They were also rather
expensive and very electrically fragile!

Currently listening to the computer playing MP3s via a 6L6 "triode mode"
SE amp at the other side of the room. Things progress! ;-)

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
Web: http://www.nascom.info



Coor, it must have been difficult being colour blind sorting resistors -
he's got to trust the right ones are in the right box ;-)
Takes me, its Red = AF and White = RF. That's just what I did as a kid
take old radio's and commercial throwouts and cannabilise them for parts.
Boxes of valves, resistors, capacitors under my bed drove my mum crazy
trying to clean. One early project I remember was a super-het radio built
in a biscuit tin..that came after a long line of silly Xtal sets with a
cats whisker and cardboard bog rolls for coils (least I think it was bog
rolls..its a long time ago ;-), messing around trying to find the right
spot on a lump of germanium..god that was fiddly, even tried it with coal
and it worked :-) When I finally got hold of germanium diodes it was
heaven sent though a bit late.... all our yesterdays eh? ("Jumpers for
goalposts" - fast show??) :-)
Strange..missed a line of text out. The computers here are networked with
two others in the house on broadband (plus two servers stuck in a
cupboard)... but thats my son's domain, I'll ask him when he gets back....

Bye from Iain
 

"Wally" wrote in message
...
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

A pleasant, polite, passing professional person who, previously
positively pulverising poor pathetic Pouncing Pink Pillock's
****-poor posturing posts, paused, pondered and then pushed off.....

You'd like people to think that, despite the reality of the situation,
but then you're a hairy-arsed trucker, so who cares?

I fort is was a tidy bit of alliteration, meself...



Why would we worry Wally, what witless weasel words wearisome, washout
******s will write....??

Bye from Iain
 

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 10:12:14 +0000, Mike Gilmour wrote:

Coor, it must have been difficult being colour blind sorting resistors -
he's got to trust the right ones are in the right box ;-) Takes me, its
Red = AF and White = RF. That's just what I did as a kid take old

Ah, but those colours were on the black-painted glass transistors. These
were in metal cans (a sort of goldy colour) with 2 paint spots on the top.
The leads were in a single line with the collector spaced apart from the
others IIRC.

Ever scraped the paint off an early clear gel-filled OC71 (before they
made the filling opaque) to convert it into an OCP71?

radio's and commercial throwouts and cannabilise them for parts. Boxes
of valves, resistors, capacitors under my bed drove my mum crazy trying
to clean. One early project I remember was a super-het radio built in a
biscuit tin..that came after a long line of silly Xtal sets with a cats
whisker and cardboard bog rolls for coils (least I think it was bog
rolls..its a long time ago ;-), messing around trying to find the right
spot on a lump of germanium..god that was fiddly, even tried it with
coal and it worked :-) When I finally got hold of germanium diodes it
was heaven sent though a bit late.... all our yesterdays eh? ("Jumpers
for goalposts" - fast show??) :-)

Been through the crystal set thing, but only with germanium point
contact diodes (OA70?). There were some of those in the tellys. I never
got to play with lumps of germanium. I hadn't heard about using coal!

hmm... memories of trying to make frame aerials that worked with crystal
sets...

In those earlyish days I used to *dream* about amateur radio. Now I've
finally passed the RAE (and been licenced on VHF) I can't really be
bothered! Its an alternative use for those 6L6s that I got cheap if
I get bored with audio though... ;-)

Strange..missed a line of text out. The computers here are networked
with two others in the house on broadband (plus two servers stuck in a
cupboard)... but thats my son's domain, I'll ask him when he gets back....

I do all me own networking! 4 boxes so far, mine on linux. Used to use a
fifth as a router but just got a ss quiet one! Intending to add a linux
file-server to the system (used to have one but scrapped it to get the
bits). All on cat5 - its cheaper than wireless and I've overcome any fear
of wires after all this time!

Just to keep this slightly on topic - my first experience of a valve amp
was a PA amp that my dad had got from somewhere. That had a pair of "large
size" 6L6s into a rather thin-looking OPT. I don't think he ever got it to
work really well (I think the OPT was duff) but the bits were around for
many years. Wish I still had the bottles - they would have looked rather
nice!

--
Mick
(no M$ software on here... :-) )
Web: http://www.nascom.info

Bye from Iain
 

"mick" wrote


Currently listening to the computer playing MP3s via a 6L6 "triode mode"
SE amp at the other side of the room. Things progress! ;-)


MP3s on a valve amp? It's not just me then!

:-)

(Make's 'em sound quite good, dunnit? ;-)

Bye from Iain
 

"Mike Gilmour" wrote



though a bit late.... all our yesterdays eh? ("Jumpers for goalposts" -
fast show??) :-)


You don't need to explain your jokes, Mike - there's *one* here who will
come puffing up and do that for you.

(Usually the next day, when the penny's dropped! ;-)

Bye from Iain
 

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 09:05:36 GMT, mick wrote:

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:52:26 +0000, Wally wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

A pleasant, polite, passing professional person who, previously
positively pulverising poor pathetic Pouncing Pink Pillock's ****-poor
posturing posts, paused, pondered and then pushed off.....

You'd like people to think that, despite the reality of the situation,
but then you're a hairy-arsed trucker, so who cares?

I fort is was a tidy bit of alliteration, meself...

naww... He was just taking the "p"...

LOL! Very good............

--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering