Forum: The lounge
4 Days Ago
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Replies: 12
Views: 235
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Forum: The lounge
4 Days Ago
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Replies: 12
Views: 235
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Forum: The lounge
5 Days Ago
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Replies: 12
Views: 235
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Forum: The lounge
5 Days Ago
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Replies: 38
Views: 545
Re: Vintage Kit
You’ve all transported me back to the 70s and listening to the wise old men I worked with. They must have been 50-60 then (OK, so it felt they were old when I was late teens) so I suspect some of you...
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Forum: The lounge
5 Days Ago
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Replies: 8
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Re: Old Photos
Some great historic pictures there. Oddly I’d only recently seen the exact same U-Boat plumbing one on another forum.
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 26
Views: 375
Re: The Future of Cars
The bit where they realised they wouldn’t make huge amounts of money from it if it was so cheap.
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 38
Views: 545
Re: Vintage Kit
I guess.
I always craved a Revox tape machine but it was far too expensive, despite having American family friends who has access to PX prices. Had a succession of cassette decks, starting with,...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 26
Views: 375
Re: The Future of Cars
I was brought up on Wright’s Coal Tar soap (no food in them days) and used to think it strange my grandmother used Lifebouy soap and that it felt a bit luxurious compared.
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 38
Views: 545
Re: Vintage Kit
I think my first ‘proper’ record deck was possibly a BSR MacDonald - seem to think it was a competitor of the Garrard SP25, forget the model, I might then have had an SP25 Mk 2 (if such a beast was...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 38
Views: 545
Re: Vintage Kit
Didn’t all those names / manufacturers from the past get bought up by Curry’s, Dixon’s etc, names like Garrard, Wharfedale, Bush, Murphy, BSR etc?? Only to reappear as rebadged tat from the cheapest...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 26
Views: 375
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 13
Views: 265
Re: Geared Steam Locomotives
So how many of us like our 60s (and older?) steam locos then? I’ve got great memories of Southern steam, even driving locos from coaling stage to turntable while a grown up walked alongside chanting...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 38
Views: 545
Re: Vintage Kit
I remember getting transformers rewound at a then local company.
I also remember building a bench PSU and winding my own transformer having first unwound a donor transformer. Still got it, built...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 26
Views: 375
Re: The Future of Cars
When I retired I definitely missed the hustle and bustle of a busy ICT dept, the banter, black humour and general friendship. Working from home and being virtually part time has helped me adjust but...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 26
Views: 375
Re: The Future of Cars
The trust thing probably affects people trying to manage lower grade workers. I’ve managed people who were always ‘busy’, were praised by the people they did work for, yet were actually much less...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 26
Views: 375
Re: The Future of Cars
I’m not sure if it’s still a thing but a few years ago the various Planning departments were actively stopping new developments or redevelopments from having the same number of parking spaces as...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 26
Views: 375
Re: The Future of Cars
That’s always touted as a goal but surely it just increases the social isolation, plus you’re going to have people who take the wee and see it as an excuse to do nothing all day. It’s very difficult...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 38
Views: 545
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 13
Views: 265
Re: Geared Steam Locomotives
There was a brief bit view of one recently on one of the Portillo programs in the US. It caught my attention as despite having grown up at the end of steam here in the UK, I’d never seen anything...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 22
Views: 556
Re: Age-Related Difficulties
I’m still engrossed in reading Nigel’s post above but something in there reminded me of something. If you’re going to get medication for anything long term like that, do it before you claim a...
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Forum: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,614
Re: Battery - charging error
I have to be honest and say I do have a second original charger from my second body which I’ve never used, maybe that one is different?
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Forum: General photography discussion
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 11
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Re: Loose the 'sticky-out-strap-ends'
I got all excited, thinking it would solve my perceived exact same problem but when I checked I realized I’d already swapped out those adjustable type straps for the loop type ones!
I’m sure...
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Forum: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 22
Views: 3,614
Re: Battery - charging error
Eh? Flashing yellow is normal and rate of flash indicates charge progress.
You say flashing green? Really?
Mine goes green, as others have said, when fully charged.
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 22
Views: 556
Re: Age-Related Difficulties
As dreadful as that must have been for everyone, I think I’d rather go like that (suddenly) than suffer years of increasing debility and probably eventual dementia. There seems to be too much effort...
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Forum: The lounge
1 Week Ago
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Replies: 40
Views: 759
Re: Resolution and Image Quality
Me too, so the detail shots are separate photos taken up close rather than crops of the full picture?
I thought it was a bit too good to be true! Or is it?
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