Forum: The lounge
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Re: Vintage Kit
I think ten PP3s, some wire and some sticky tape would be rather simpler than the Cockroft-Walton solution! Back in the 60s my dad had a car radio (Smiths I think, but badged HMV) which used a...
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Vintage Kit
A friend has a few old portable valve radios which need a long-obsolete 90v high tension battery. He gets round the problem by connecting ten PP3s in series!
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Forum: Foto Fair
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Forum: Foto Fair
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Re: Lancaster
Bits of Lancaster I've never seen, although to be fair I haven't been there very often. I find it a rather claustrophobic city and the traffic is diabolical but these shots suggest I should take a...
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Forum: General photography discussion
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: The Future of Cars
I had a feeling the Rolls engine in the Princess 4-litre R was originally developed for the military vehicles that Austin made during WW2 although Wiki makes no mention of that.
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Vintage Kit
Philips have made some very good stuff over the years, I vaguely remember that turntable. A lot of CD players, especially Marantz, use Philips transports. They along with Sony of course developed...
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Vintage Kit
Yes, if I remember correctly my Saab had a setting to update the car clock from the RDS data and it defaulted to "off".
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Vintage Kit
Agreed about the 401 at least, I've no experience of the 301. The SP25 was advertised as being of high quality (as it was for single records only, no autochanger) but as you rightly say, it was crap....
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Vintage Kit
Does the radio display the station name on FM? Can you get traffic info? If so then yes.
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Vintage Kit
Not sure I'd class Garrard as "high quality". I saved up my pocket money and bought an SP25 turntable around 1969 when they were perceived as being good quality; however there was considerable play...
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Vintage Kit
I'd forgotten about my old alarm clock radio which I got from a local petrol station with Esso Tiger Tokens, probably in the mid-1970s. It's badged Bush but I doubt very much it was made by them,...
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Forum: Events
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Forum: The lounge
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Geared Steam Locomotives
When was that photo taken Nigel?
The famous short film "Snowdrift at Bleath Gill" was made near Stainmore Summit in 1955 when we used to have proper winters! A freight train was trapped in snow...
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Forum: Foto Fair
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Vintage Kit
Roberts sell badged versions of other brands, as well as making their own. I had an R283 portable AM/FM radio with an LCD display that went flaky after a year or two and was unusable by the time I...
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Geared Steam Locomotives
I found the Shay photos more easily than I expected! Originally taken in 1983 on Agfa CT18 film with my OM-2SP, probably with the Zuiko 35-105 lens.
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Forum: The lounge
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Re: Geared Steam Locomotives
Me too Nigel. The old Kirkby Stephen East (http://www.kirkbystepheneast.co.uk/) station is being restored and houses the Stainmore Railway Company now. The loss of the 200' high Belah Vaduct...
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Forum: Foto Fair
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Forum: Foto Fair
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Forum: Foto Fair
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Re: My New toy, MMF-3
Yes, it wasn't brilliant on the E-620 I had before the E-M5. Maybe when E-M1 Mk2s come down a bit in price I'll take the plunge, I always liked the 12-60 - the 12-40 just seems too short, and while...
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Forum: Foto Fair
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Re: My New toy, MMF-3
The 12-60 works OK on my E-M5 Mk1 but it does hunt a bit before finally gaining focus. So it's not much use for grab shots but for static subjects it's useable. The 50-200 is best used with manual...
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Forum: The lounge
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Forum: General photography discussion
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