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"Patrick Turner" wrote


The designs for these have been common knowledge for 60 years at least,
and all the info on how is spelled out in RDH4.
But the chinese like to make copies, and they overlook the inner details,
and some of the product is like a Rolex watch made in HK.



What, looks just as naff and does the same job for a fraction of the price?



The Zero was no match for a Huricane or Spitfire eh.


Did they ever come face to face?

However, as a fighting machine it was far from ****e, contrary to what we
might like to believe:
"The most effective Japanese fighter of World War II was known by many
names. To the Imperial Japanese Navy, it was the Type 0 Carrier Fighter,
Model 52. To the U.S. Navy pilots who fought it in the skies over the
Pacific, it was the "Zeke." And to the American public it was known as the
Zero. By whatever name, the Japanese Navy's Zero fighter was one of the most
potent warplanes of World War II and probably the best all-around
carrier-based fighter of the early 1940s. The Zero's outstanding
performance stemmed primarily from the fact that it weighed only 5,500 to
6,500 pounds fully loaded. For this reason the Zero was extremely
maneuverable and had a fast rate of climb."

Interesting corollary - the Spitfire was made (mostly) by a firm now lost to
history (am I not right?) and the Zero was made by a little outfit called
Mitsubishi...

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"Mike Gilmour" wrote


A whole different world that I haven't really had any interest in but now
you say it I'll make a point of looking closely at Omega's. During the
70's I bought a (real!) Rolex GMT Master (red/blue bezel) purely out of
convenience. At sea I was working GMT & setting bezel to ships time so I
knew when to eat & drink. It worked well enough for taking my turn at
noon or shootin' stars (finding ships position by sextant....old
technology again ;-) It was checked once a day against radio and the
error varied slightly around the correct time so I was well pleased. No it
served me well and no complaints but I'm not really into watches and would
be happy now with any analogue wris****ch that locked itself to MSF and I
wouldn't have to change it ever again.. My car clock is still an hour
out..always forget that one so I'll probably get around to setting it just
before the clocks change again.:-)


If you could stomach '17:52' etc., I believe you can get a radio-controlled
wris****ch from Argos for about £15. Accurate to less than half a second for
eternity. (Or until it needs a new battery.... ;-)

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In article ,
Mike Gilmour wrote:
My Avo valve characteristic meter MkII is as old as the hills so not
much to boast about..as it came in on a Zimmer frame ;-)..... but it
does work very well if calibrated from time to time..and I picked it up
for next to nothing.

You're lucky. Have you seen what they go for on Ebay?

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Keith G wrote:

"Tat Chan" wrote in message
...

so did you not like rugby after leaving school?



No, I simply didn't play it - what I don't *do* I disregard. I'm not one of
life's 'watchers'.



first time I have heard that kind of approach. If I like a sport I still
take an interest in it even if I have stopped playing it.

(and it usually makes good pub talk as well)

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"Tat Chan" wrote in message
...
Keith G wrote:

"Tat Chan" wrote in message
...

so did you not like rugby after leaving school?



No, I simply didn't play it - what I don't *do* I disregard. I'm not one
of life's 'watchers'.



first time I have heard that kind of approach. If I like a sport I still
take an interest in it even if I have stopped playing it.


Fine.


(and it usually makes good pub talk as well)


Hoo boy....

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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:30:57 +1100, Tat Chan
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:41:08 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:

I do have a Rolex GMT Master, but now that I've obtained a '50 year Edition' Omega
Seamaster GMT, I'll be selling it on.

right-o. Will ten quid do it?

A day for the next ten years? OK, you're on.

:)

Gawd, don't get him started on about his bling - it'll be about his 'motah'
next.....


Nope, it's Rolex who are the kings of Bling Bling. Ever notice how any
fat Yank who's made a few bob, immediately buys a gold Rolex?

and rich Asians (oh, all right, since this is a UK newsgroup, I meant
Orientals) ... apparently Hong Kong has an unbelievable number of Rolex
dealers for a place that small. Perhaps the worlds largest ratio of
square kilometres to Rolex dealers?

True, I'd forgotten good old Nathan Street! :-)

(and Oriental yuppies tend to buy Tag watches as the first step up the
ladder of bling watches ...)

When they were just Heuer, they were good watches, now they're just
the 'sports' brand of LVMH, with Zenith doing the 'posh' styles.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:37:03 -0000, "Mike Gilmour"
wrote:

No it served me well and no
complaints but I'm not really into watches and would be happy now with any
analogue wris****ch that locked itself to MSF and I wouldn't have to change
it ever again..

My wris****ch 'reference' is a Casio Waveceptor - but that's not
analogue. Junghans make some analogue MSF watches.

--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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it does work very well if calibrated from time to time..and I picked it up for
next to nothing.

You're lucky. Have you seen what they go for on Ebay?

who calibrates it? I got an AVO4 on ebay - haven't switched it on yet.

=== Andy Evans ===
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:41:31 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:

"Patrick Turner" wrote

The designs for these have been common knowledge for 60 years at least,
and all the info on how is spelled out in RDH4.
But the chinese like to make copies, and they overlook the inner details,
and some of the product is like a Rolex watch made in HK.

What, looks just as naff and does the same job for a fraction of the price?

You got it! :-)

The Zero was no match for a Huricane or Spitfire eh.

Did they ever come face to face?

However, as a fighting machine it was far from ****e, contrary to what we
might like to believe:
"The most effective Japanese fighter of World War II was known by many
names. To the Imperial Japanese Navy, it was the Type 0 Carrier Fighter,
Model 52. To the U.S. Navy pilots who fought it in the skies over the
Pacific, it was the "Zeke." And to the American public it was known as the
Zero. By whatever name, the Japanese Navy's Zero fighter was one of the most
potent warplanes of World War II and probably the best all-around
carrier-based fighter of the early 1940s. The Zero's outstanding
performance stemmed primarily from the fact that it weighed only 5,500 to
6,500 pounds fully loaded. For this reason the Zero was extremely
maneuverable and had a fast rate of climb."

Interesting corollary - the Spitfire was made (mostly) by a firm now lost to
history (am I not right?) and the Zero was made by a little outfit called
Mitsubishi...

Yes indeedy, and Ford was forced to pull some television 'knocking
copy' advertising a few years back. Their US market was being hit hard
by Japanese imports, so they showed pictures of the new Colts and
Lancers against an overlay of a diving Zero on a bomb run, with the
voiceover "new from Mitsubishi, the company which brought you the
Zero". Strangely, Mitsubishi didn't take this too well.............
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:02:59 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:

"Trevor Wilson" wrote

OK, don't bother coming to, er, Pommyland, to shop for amps atm,
then....

**The odd thing here is, that, to Aussies, there is Pommyland, Scotland
and Ireland. We don't label the entire UK with the term: Pommyland. We
don't think much about the Welsh (though I did live with a Welsh lass
for
awhile). I guess it's all that coal mining and singing and stuff.

I would imagine thaqt the Kiwis are more akin to the Welsh, he said
sheepishly................ :-)

**Perhaps. I am not aware of the status of the Welsh in Pommy society. As
for Kiwis and Aussies, our governments have fairly relaxed attitudes towards
the citizens of both nations. Those Kiwis who are out of work in Australia
can draw the dole here in Australia. The Kiwi government has responded in
kind by supplying the dole to out of work Aussies in New Zealand.
Apparently, there are some 50,000 Kiwi dole bludgers in Australia and TWO
Aussies drawing the dole in New Zealand. Hmmmm....

The joke used to be: 'Will the last Kiwi leaving New Zealand, please turn
out the lights.'



--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au