Article: 323984 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Bill Morris" Subject: WTD--5-pin wafer sockets Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:07:21 -0500 Message-ID: <434e5c08$0$32197$39cecf19@news.twtelecom.net> Got an upcoming project to start, and I can't find the abovementioned item. Seems AES only has ceramic versions. I need a few of the wafer-style 5 pin sockets, the ones that are two pieces of phenolic held together with rivets. Bill Article: 323985 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Paul Dietenberger" References: <1f5a5703cc4d2d4404e9392d0d3b6872@localhost.talkaboutcollecting.com> Subject: Re: 71A, 371's: What makes them AC or DC? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:17:48 -0500 Message-ID: <434e5c9f$1_2@newspeer2.tds.net> "Pete_O" wrote in message news:1f5a5703cc4d2d4404e9392d0d3b6872@localhost.talkaboutcollecting.com... > The later AC TRF's and period tech info insist upon using 371's or other > "AC" rated tubes. It's a directly heated cathode- what makes it better > for AC opereation instead of DC? -Pete O. It's not. There just weren't any decent indirectly-heated power tubes available until the 42 hit the market in 1932. 71As were used in battery sets. They needed .25A at 5V on the filament, just like an 01A. Article: 323986 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Akai Factory Service? From: Larry References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> <1128955839.459336.235540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2zp3f.216$Xj4.25657@monger.newsread.com> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:30:03 -0400 "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> wrote in news:ZAp3f.217$Xj4.25562@monger.newsread.com: > Hey, Larry...133, 166 or 233 MHz? > It was a 533, but someone upgraded and I got a free 733 P3 so stuck that in there. Doesn't matter much. Motherboard's still running 120 Mhz and all my favorite processes are very disk intensive. Some day I'll get a new gee-whizzer 20Ghz with the 10Ghz motherboard and million RPM RAID drives.....when it comes out.....in 2010. I'll buy it as soon as the 1Gbps fibre cable is installed. This one runs ok on 4Mbps cable. Oh, for those of us with "medium" speed machines, faster than 350Mhz, I found a great DVD-RW external USB2.0 drive that burns DVDs fast on old, slow P3 machines. It's the LiteOn SOHW-1673SX external DVD drive. I've tried many that said they'd work on a 500 Mhz P3 Win98SE machine that didn't. This thing is uncanny! Burns CDRs at 48X and DVDs at 6X without crashing! My internal TDK CDR burner bogs the system to a stall at 8X on the IDE bus. Must be a processor inside the LiteOn that unloads the computer a lot. It was $109 at Circuit City but is even cheaper if you order off the net. If you want to burn single OR EVEN DUAL LAYER DVDs on a tired old Win98SE 450 or 550 Mhz P3, DIS BE DA ONE! Be informed the correct driver for Win98SE is NOT on any of the Nero 6 or DVD player disks that come with the drive. Download the correct Win98SE driver from: http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/English/e_downloads/e_drivers.asp Click on V605.zip and download it. Unzip it and install it first, then plug in the drive and it works first class....Save you the telephone tag I went through. -- Larry Article: 323987 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> <1128955839.459336.235540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2zp3f.216$Xj4.25657@monger.newsread.com> Subject: Re: Akai Factory Service? Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:55:28 GMT I've used the Liteon 40125... with Nero 5.5.7.2. (unit specific or something) sporadically for almost 5 years, on machines from 233 MHz to 1 GHz and busses from 66 to 433+ MHz. Currently on Socket A, 100 MHz bus and 700 MHz Althlon. I always use a separate drive for reading. Someday the new board will be running and I will have onboard Raid again (through 4 extra IDE channels instead an IDE adapter). I am all-AMD right now and prefer that. "Larry" wrote in message news:Xns96EE74FAF5398noone@63.223.7.253... > "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> wrote in > news:ZAp3f.217$Xj4.25562@monger.newsread.com: > > > Hey, Larry...133, 166 or 233 MHz? > > > > It was a 533, but someone upgraded and I got a free 733 P3 so stuck that in > there. Doesn't matter much. Motherboard's still running 120 Mhz and all > my favorite processes are very disk intensive. > > Some day I'll get a new gee-whizzer 20Ghz with the 10Ghz motherboard and > million RPM RAID drives.....when it comes out.....in 2010. I'll buy it as > soon as the 1Gbps fibre cable is installed. This one runs ok on 4Mbps > cable. > > Oh, for those of us with "medium" speed machines, faster than 350Mhz, I > found a great DVD-RW external USB2.0 drive that burns DVDs fast on old, > slow P3 machines. It's the LiteOn SOHW-1673SX external DVD drive. I've > tried many that said they'd work on a 500 Mhz P3 Win98SE machine that > didn't. This thing is uncanny! Burns CDRs at 48X and DVDs at 6X without > crashing! My internal TDK CDR burner bogs the system to a stall at 8X on > the IDE bus. Must be a processor inside the LiteOn that unloads the > computer a lot. It was $109 at Circuit City but is even cheaper if you > order off the net. If you want to burn single OR EVEN DUAL LAYER DVDs on a > tired old Win98SE 450 or 550 Mhz P3, DIS BE DA ONE! > > Be informed the correct driver for Win98SE is NOT on any of the Nero 6 or > DVD player disks that come with the drive. Download the correct Win98SE > driver from: > http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/English/e_downloads/e_drivers.asp > Click on V605.zip and download it. > Unzip it and install it first, then plug in the drive and it works first > class....Save you the telephone tag I went through. > > -- > Larry Article: 323988 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> <1128955839.459336.235540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2zp3f.216$Xj4.25657@monger.newsread.com> Subject: OT-Computer junk: Akai Factory Service? Message-ID: <0yv3f.241$Xj4.27781@monger.newsread.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:02:04 GMT PS Larry, it's the architecture of the bus more than most other things that determines how a system runs. I'm finding I like non-Intel/VIA bridges a little better now, but a good 100 MHz bus with a coprocessor involved would often seem to work more nicely, clear back to the days I was using P90s. "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> wrote in message news:Qrv3f.239$Xj4.27934@monger.newsread.com... > I've used the Liteon 40125... with Nero 5.5.7.2. (unit specific or > something) sporadically for almost 5 years, on machines from 233 MHz to 1 > GHz and busses from 66 to 433+ MHz. Currently on Socket A, 100 MHz bus and > 700 MHz Althlon. I always use a separate drive for reading. Someday the new > board will be running and I will have onboard Raid again (through 4 extra > IDE channels instead an IDE adapter). I am all-AMD right now and prefer > that. > > "Larry" wrote in message > news:Xns96EE74FAF5398noone@63.223.7.253... > > "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> wrote in > > news:ZAp3f.217$Xj4.25562@monger.newsread.com: > > > > > Hey, Larry...133, 166 or 233 MHz? > > > > > > > It was a 533, but someone upgraded and I got a free 733 P3 so stuck that > in > > there. Doesn't matter much. Motherboard's still running 120 Mhz and all > > my favorite processes are very disk intensive. > > > > Some day I'll get a new gee-whizzer 20Ghz with the 10Ghz motherboard and > > million RPM RAID drives.....when it comes out.....in 2010. I'll buy it as > > soon as the 1Gbps fibre cable is installed. This one runs ok on 4Mbps > > cable. > > > > Oh, for those of us with "medium" speed machines, faster than 350Mhz, I > > found a great DVD-RW external USB2.0 drive that burns DVDs fast on old, > > slow P3 machines. It's the LiteOn SOHW-1673SX external DVD drive. I've > > tried many that said they'd work on a 500 Mhz P3 Win98SE machine that > > didn't. This thing is uncanny! Burns CDRs at 48X and DVDs at 6X without > > crashing! My internal TDK CDR burner bogs the system to a stall at 8X on > > the IDE bus. Must be a processor inside the LiteOn that unloads the > > computer a lot. It was $109 at Circuit City but is even cheaper if you > > order off the net. If you want to burn single OR EVEN DUAL LAYER DVDs on > a > > tired old Win98SE 450 or 550 Mhz P3, DIS BE DA ONE! > > > > Be informed the correct driver for Win98SE is NOT on any of the Nero 6 or > > DVD player disks that come with the drive. Download the correct Win98SE > > driver from: > > http://www.liteonit.com/ODD/English/e_downloads/e_drivers.asp > > Click on V605.zip and download it. > > Unzip it and install it first, then plug in the drive and it works first > > class....Save you the telephone tag I went through. > > > > -- > > Larry > > Article: 323989 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Music for your radio station? From: Larry Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:04:44 -0400 Over on alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1940s is an excellent posting of a great mix of 20s, 30s, and 40s music for that kilowatt phono oscillator running in the attic to entertain the neighbors. Looks for MEGA REPOST - Sentimental Journey, which fills most of the postings for the last few days. The posting continues! Go get 'em! As the old record bandwidth was low, whoever encoded them did us all a favor and uses 64Kbps MP3 encoding. On an MP3 CDR, you'll get 20 hours on it, easy! I'm going to put these on the antique 20GB portable MP3 player and hide it with its little IC amp inside the Motorola 41D 1939 portable. Great fun at the old-fashioned diner I have breakfast in sometimes....(c; -- Larry Article: 323990 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: OT-Computer junk: Akai Factory Service? From: Larry References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> <1128955839.459336.235540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2zp3f.216$Xj4.25657@monger.newsread.com> <0yv3f.241$Xj4.27781@monger.newsread.com> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:28:25 -0400 "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> wrote in news:0yv3f.241$Xj4.27781@monger.newsread.com: > PS Larry, it's the architecture of the bus more than most other things > that determines how a system runs. I'm finding I like non-Intel/VIA > bridges a little better now, but a good 100 MHz bus with a coprocessor > involved would often seem to work more nicely, clear back to the days > I was using P90s. > It would be nice to have a faster motherboard than 120, here. My typing this message comes in jerks and fits because the MP3 player is playing that Sentimental Journey MP3 stuff I posted about a few minutes ago and the data is pouring into the Ethernet port from Knology's direct Usenetserver port at around 500KB/sec. I can see my system holding up the downloading when its buffer gets full before the processor has time to store it even though I'm at 64K buffer on that port. Just takes a little more time to fill the 660GB hard drives...(c; But, alas, looking back....I used to be the sysop of the Charleston Computer Club's closet BBS hidden away in the history dept of the College of Charleston. The history chair was its biggest fan. He was usually prez of the club. Remember when we used to sit, totally fascinated, connected to the BBS at 1200 baud wondering where we were going to store all that stuff?....(c; The closet had 8 phone lines and 8 modems piled up on top of the box. "Those were the days." Be nice to me and I'll give you the special password to the hidden files! -- Larry Article: 323991 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "xrongor" Subject: Re: Akai Factory Service? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:36:58 -0600 Message-ID: References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> "Scott W. Harvey" wrote in message news:diknbk06np@news4.newsguy.com... > Don wrote: >>>You're supposed to buy constant new items from them and let the >>> >>>>trash man have last year's model for the landfill. Seen any restored >>>>Datsuns or Toyopets at a car show? (Sure would like to have my >>>>2-cylinder >>>>Honda S-600 that got 65mpg back...[snif]) > >> I had to wait 3 weeks for a $87 part to fix my 2001 Nissan Sentra. >> They originally told me 1 month. I called 1-800-nissanusa, and >> complained. >> The dealer wanted to charge me $44 for shipping, too. > > > 1986 Corolla here. I've never had a problem getting parts. Of course, that > is largely because it hasn't needed too many replacement ones in the first > place. i bought a 'used' (had 8k miles on it) corolla back in 93. ive seen many of my friends go through 2-3 cars and my corolla with over 150K on it is still better than many cars with 30-40k miles on them. still gets 35+ on the highway too. got a friend with a 'first year' corolla too and that damn thing is still running with well over 300k miles on it. randy Article: 323992 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Message-ID: <%Px3f.251$Xj4.28561@monger.newsread.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:37:47 GMT Okay, I'm still building the pages and there are typos and stuff to clean up in the copy, but the links aren't dead and navigation is fairly good, so go HERE, Larry, or anyone else, and see my idea of livingroom fun: http://manyrumours.tripod.com/id6.html "Larry" wrote in message news:Xns96EE84E0F26EAnoone@63.223.7.253... > Over on alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1940s is an excellent posting of a great > mix of 20s, 30s, and 40s music for that kilowatt phono oscillator running > in the attic to entertain the neighbors. > > Looks for MEGA REPOST - Sentimental Journey, which fills most of the > postings for the last few days. The posting continues! Go get 'em! > > As the old record bandwidth was low, whoever encoded them did us all a > favor and uses 64Kbps MP3 encoding. On an MP3 CDR, you'll get 20 hours on > it, easy! > > I'm going to put these on the antique 20GB portable MP3 player and hide it > with its little IC amp inside the Motorola 41D 1939 portable. Great fun at > the old-fashioned diner I have breakfast in sometimes....(c; > > -- > Larry Article: 323993 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> <1128955839.459336.235540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2zp3f.216$Xj4.25657@monger.newsread.com> <0yv3f.241$Xj4.27781@monger.newsread.com> Subject: Re: OT-Computer junk: Akai Factory Service? Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:46:45 GMT I spent the first seven years of my computing life without any hard drive or on a terminal : ) "Larry" wrote in message news:Xns96EE88D8918F8noone@63.223.7.253... > "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> wrote in > news:0yv3f.241$Xj4.27781@monger.newsread.com: > > > PS Larry, it's the architecture of the bus more than most other things > > that determines how a system runs. I'm finding I like non-Intel/VIA > > bridges a little better now, but a good 100 MHz bus with a coprocessor > > involved would often seem to work more nicely, clear back to the days > > I was using P90s. > > > > It would be nice to have a faster motherboard than 120, here. My typing > this message comes in jerks and fits because the MP3 player is playing that > Sentimental Journey MP3 stuff I posted about a few minutes ago and the data > is pouring into the Ethernet port from Knology's direct Usenetserver port > at around 500KB/sec. I can see my system holding up the downloading when > its buffer gets full before the processor has time to store it even though > I'm at 64K buffer on that port. Just takes a little more time to fill the > 660GB hard drives...(c; > > But, alas, looking back....I used to be the sysop of the Charleston > Computer Club's closet BBS hidden away in the history dept of the College > of Charleston. The history chair was its biggest fan. He was usually prez > of the club. Remember when we used to sit, totally fascinated, connected > to the BBS at 1200 baud wondering where we were going to store all that > stuff?....(c; The closet had 8 phone lines and 8 modems piled up on top of > the box. "Those were the days." Be nice to me and I'll give you the > special password to the hidden files! > > -- > Larry Article: 323994 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Akai Factory Service? From: Larry References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:57:12 -0400 "xrongor" wrote in news:dim9c6$4i00$1@news3.infoave.net: > got a friend with a 'first year' corolla too and that damn thing is > still running with well over 300k miles on it. > > randy > Best car I ever owned was a 1986 Nissan Stanza Vanwagon, a kinda cross between a minivan and station wagon with the engine sticking sideways out the front so it wasn't inside. Dual sliding doors, 3 seats, 4 cyl FWD and about 9000 little relays from bumper to bumper. The analog injection computer was under the driver's seat. I sold it to a kid at Arby's who needed a cheap car to get to a new job with Holiday Inn reservations. It had 350K miles on it...ran fine until he ran over a rock and tore the oil pan off it. Pity....I paid $2900 for it, used. Before me it belonged to a lady, here. I'd like to find another one some little old lady kept in her garage and drove to church on Sunday in..... -- Larry Article: 323995 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Raymond Koonce Subject: Re: Wester Electric 300B triode References: Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:00:38 -0500 Omer Suleimanagich wrote: > How would someone use such a tube in home audio? > > Omer > > http://cgi.ebay.com/Wester-Electric-300B-triode-Vaccum-tube-Y_W0QQitemZ5818519268QQcategoryZ73381QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > > Hi Omer, I have built several 300B amps using brands other than Western Electric, mainly due to the cost. It's a very linear tube which produces about 8 watts in single ended configuration. My "to-do" list also includes a push-pull 300B amp. Regards, Raymond Article: 323996 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: OT-Computer junk: Akai Factory Service? From: Larry References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> <1128955839.459336.235540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2zp3f.216$Xj4.25657@monger.newsread.com> <0yv3f.241$Xj4.27781@monger.newsread.com> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:02:29 -0400 "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> wrote in news:pYx3f.252$Xj4.28739@monger.newsread.com: > I spent the first seven years of my computing life without any hard > drive or on a terminal : ) > > Me, too. Altairs didn't come with hard drives....(c; The Catholic Church gave me an IBM Systems 34, once. It had hard drives, but I didn't have 3 phase 408VAC to run it. 8 terminals and a chain printer. Came with complete OS and manufacturing software accounting/inventory/ordering/etc. for a small manufacturer. Someone donated it to them. Noone wanted it so it ended up in the dumpster(S). I ran out of storage....not disk storage, storage-storage. -- Larry Article: 323997 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: Wester Electric 300B triode Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:19:44 GMT "Raymond Koonce" wrote in message news:Q6y3f.5116$bt2.3883@okepread05... > Omer Suleimanagich wrote: > > > How would someone use such a tube in home audio? > > > > Omer > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/Wester-Electric-300B-triode-Vaccum-tube-Y_W0QQitemZ5818519268QQcategoryZ73381QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > > > > > > Hi Omer, > > I have built several 300B amps using brands other than Western Electric, > mainly due to the cost. It's a very linear tube which produces about 8 > watts in single ended configuration. My "to-do" list also includes a > push-pull 300B amp. > > Regards, > > Raymond How else does it compare to a 6V6 configuration beside power? Article: 323998 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Lou deGonzague Subject: Re: FS - TV-7 D/U ebay item #7553330514 References: <1129158379.001408.139340@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <8KKdnaLteOE8NdPeRVn-hg@adelphia.com> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:22:00 GMT Wow, I guess it is! I would steer clear of this one. The only other thing it could be is the wrong bulb but.... K3HVG wrote: > Has anyone noticed the fuse/lamp is lit up??? Something's not right!!! > > f1736 wrote: > >> TV-7 D/U Vacuum Tube Tester Hickok Military TV7 Item number: 7553330514 >> >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/TV-7-D-U-Vacuum-Tube-Tester-Hickok-Military-TV7_W0QQitemZ7553330514QQcategoryZ25422QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem >> >> >> Current bid: $56.00 >> Auction ends on: Oct-10-05 10:04:24 PDT >> >> Only 3 days left. >> >> >> More Pictures: - http://www.geocities.com/f1736/tv7du.htm >> >> Thanks >> Greg Fastabend - (fastabendhotmail) >> > Article: 323999 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Rune" References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> Subject: Re: Akai Factory Service? Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:01:33 GMT Akai VCRs have always been disasters. The only one I know that is still running is a friend's NTSC/PAL/SECAM unit. I gagged when I heard he got an Akai but it looks like he lucked out. I don't even know if they actually even made their VCRs. Wish I could get a VCR built like the one I had in the early 80s. Built like a truck. The same friend that has the Akai had me go over his first VCR a couple of years ago and it's still running. How old is it? It has rotary tuners. From '82. Guess we had better burn our old tapes to DVD before the VCRs die. Ray "Scott W. Harvey" wrote in message news:diknbk06np@news4.newsguy.com... > Don wrote: >>>You're supposed to buy constant new items from them and let the >>> >>>>trash man have last year's model for the landfill. Seen any restored >>>>Datsuns or Toyopets at a car show? (Sure would like to have my >>>>2-cylinder >>>>Honda S-600 that got 65mpg back...[snif]) > >> I had to wait 3 weeks for a $87 part to fix my 2001 Nissan Sentra. >> They originally told me 1 month. I called 1-800-nissanusa, and >> complained. >> The dealer wanted to charge me $44 for shipping, too. > > > 1986 Corolla here. I've never had a problem getting parts. Of course, that > is largely because it hasn't needed too many replacement ones in the first > place. There are plenty of first generation Lexuses still being driven > around here as well. > > It has been my experience that auto dealerships tend to be lazy and > unmotivated when it comes to servicing what they sell. The mechanics are > decent but they don't seem to get a hell of a lot of support from the > manufacturers. A good independent shop is a much better deal....They are > hungrier for the business and seem to have a better feel for tracking down > the tough-dog problems and thinking outside the box to solve them. > > The last AKAI-branded product that I owned, A VCR bought in '87, was a > disaster. The AFM circuitry would make fluttering noises when hooked to > cable TV. The muting circuit failed in one audio channel after two months, > resulting in horrible screeching noises when you fast forwarded through > commercials. The video head failed after six months because one of the ICs > was not properly heat-sinked. Mechanically, it was WAY too delicate and > was starting to develop problems with fast-forward and rewind about the > same time the head failed. > > A friend of mine bought the same deck, and it developed similar problems > after about a year of use. The head also failed on his, as well as the > tuner and the video modulator. He gave me his machine and I managed to > cobble enough parts together from the two bad decks to make one good one, > which I gave back to him. It lasted another six months before having a > catastrophic mechanical breakdown. What a joke......two $400.00 decks > tossed into the landfill after only 18 months. I had previously had pretty > good luck with AKAI's reel-to-reel decks, and I was stunned at how far > they had fallen. > > After that fiasco, I bought a SONY SLV-555 VCR to replace the AKAI. It's a > bit long in the tooth, but it still works to this day. I doubt I could > find anything so durably built now. > > I also own two contemporary Panasonic VCRs, which are built as cheap as > can be but seem to be holding up pretty well in the face of abusive > children and virtually zero maintenance. > > -Scott Article: 324000 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Rune" Subject: Age failure or manufacturing flaw? Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:16:34 GMT I just went over an old noisy phono preamp and found something odd. Each channel has 2 caps 100mfd @ 25V and ALL 4 had the same problem. They checked beautifully for leakage and ESR but were grossly under value. 33-50% under. I have to suppose that this unit worked OK at one time but have a strong feeling these caps were defective in manufacture. All the other caps in the unit are excellent although these were the only ones of that value. Nippon Chemi-Con brand. Replacing them fixed things. Anyone else ever encounter this? Ray Article: 324001 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Gary Tayman" References: <9656-434AA696-1015@storefull-3254.bay.webtv.net> Subject: Re: Is this worth the buy it now? Message-ID: <_gA3f.2905$y14.733@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:25:14 GMT BILL! GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!! Excuse caps, short answer, very excited I've been praying for your recovery; I'm sure others have as well. It's great to have you back -- look forward to chatting with you in the future! "Bill Turner" wrote in message news:9656-434AA696-1015@storefull-3254.bay.webtv.net... > HEY ! HOW MUCH DO I OWE YOU? I WROTE YOU SEVERAL DAYS AGO AND HAVENT > GOTTEN AN ANSWER. > > > CHECK MY WEBSITE: www.dialcover.com > Bill Turner, excuse caps, short answers, stroke. > Business SASE, each order a copy of The Pocket Resource Guide. > > > > Article: 324002 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Robert Mozeleski" References: <1oudnUrS04ZWjtfeRVn-pA@conversent.net> Subject: Re: Zenith R7000-2 Transoceanic Need IC201 (#221-113) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:48:55 GMT These are some 14 pin dip if/rf chips. LA1201 TAA991D NE511B SE511B NE510A SE510A TBA261AXZ UA757DM UA757DC MC1352P TBA120 LM272N LM372N TAA930B CA3042 CA3041 TAA691 "Paul Moyer" wrote in message news:1oudnUrS04ZWjtfeRVn-pA@conversent.net... >I would greatly appreciate any help to locate a Zenith #221-113 IC or a substitute. This is IC201 on the IF/Audio >module (module #A-8995). > > Many thanks for any help. > > Paul Moyer > Article: 324003 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Raymond Koonce Subject: Re: Wester Electric 300B triode References: Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:52:40 -0500 Steven Dinius_ wrote: > "Raymond Koonce" wrote in message > news:Q6y3f.5116$bt2.3883@okepread05... > >>Omer Suleimanagich wrote: >> >> >>>How would someone use such a tube in home audio? >>> >>>Omer >>> >>> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/Wester-Electric-300B-triode-Vaccum-tube-Y_W0QQitemZ5818519268QQcategoryZ73381QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > >>> >>Hi Omer, >> >>I have built several 300B amps using brands other than Western Electric, >>mainly due to the cost. It's a very linear tube which produces about 8 >>watts in single ended configuration. My "to-do" list also includes a >>push-pull 300B amp. >> >>Regards, >> >>Raymond > > > How else does it compare to a 6V6 configuration beside power? > > Not having heard a SE 6V6 amp, I can't compare the sound. The power outputs are similar as are plate dissipation ratings. Maybe it's the SE zero global NFB topology that I like. I've also built 45 and 2A3 amps that sound quite good to my ears, and that's what counts to me. Regards, Raymond Article: 324004 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "xrongor" Subject: Re: Akai Factory Service? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:05:57 -0600 Message-ID: References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> > I'd like to find another one some little old lady kept in her garage and > drove to church on Sunday in..... im still keeping my eyes out for a 70-71 datsun 510 4 door sedan that's been garaged for a while too. funnest car i ever owned. just make sure if you take it off road you got a spare u-joint in the trunk cause there's 6 of em on the car and at any given time one of them is failing back in the day i could change one out in 15-20 minutes. the engines in these things seem to eat head gaskets about every 20-30k miles too, but heck. these things were made back when you could actually work on cars... randy Article: 324005 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "jhill" Subject: Re: Age failure or manufacturing flaw? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:28:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: The tolerence on electrolytics is + 100%, -50% thus one marked 100 mfd can actually measure 50 or as much as 200 and still be ok. These were near the limit of tolerence. "Rune" wrote in message news:S8A3f.10$H3.9@twister.nyc.rr.com... > I just went over an old noisy phono preamp and found something odd. > > Each channel has 2 caps 100mfd @ 25V and ALL 4 had the same problem. They > checked beautifully for leakage and ESR but were grossly under value. 33-50% > under. > > I have to suppose that this unit worked OK at one time but have a strong > feeling these caps were defective in manufacture. All the other caps in the > unit are excellent although these were the only ones of that value. > > Nippon Chemi-Con brand. Replacing them fixed things. > > Anyone else ever encounter this? > > Ray > > Article: 324006 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "xrongor" Subject: Re: Age failure or manufacturing flaw? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:39:24 -0600 Message-ID: References: depending on where they go in the circuit, they could be well within spec. lots of caps are manufactured to such loose tolerances. or were anyway... randy "Rune" wrote in message news:S8A3f.10$H3.9@twister.nyc.rr.com... >I just went over an old noisy phono preamp and found something odd. > > Each channel has 2 caps 100mfd @ 25V and ALL 4 had the same problem. They > checked beautifully for leakage and ESR but were grossly under value. > 33-50% under. > > I have to suppose that this unit worked OK at one time but have a strong > feeling these caps were defective in manufacture. All the other caps in > the unit are excellent although these were the only ones of that value. > > Nippon Chemi-Con brand. Replacing them fixed things. > > Anyone else ever encounter this? > > Ray > Article: 324007 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Tim Mullen Subject: Re: HISTORY CHANNEL DOC NEEDS PROPS Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:57:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1123543447.821036.107210@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1MSdnXA6GPcpaWrfRVn-qQ@comcast.com> <4349FF1D.9EE18225@earthlink.net> <2oK2f.13710$Fc4.9521@twister.nyc.rr.com> <434C3F43.253B3636@earthlink.net> <%5m3f.731$QM5.597@tornado.socal.rr.com> In <%5m3f.731$QM5.597@tornado.socal.rr.com> Jeffrey D Angus writes: >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345388526/qid=1129180481/sr=8-9/ref=pd_bbs_9/102-5030739-3432155?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Thanks! I especially like the "333 used & new available from $0.01" :) -- Tim Mullen ------------------------------------------------------------------ Am I in your basement? Looking for antique televisions, fans, etc. ------ finger this account or call anytime: (212)-463-0552 ------- Article: 324008 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Lou deGonzague Subject: Re: FS - TV-7 D/U ebay item #7553330514 References: <1129158379.001408.139340@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <8KKdnaLteOE8NdPeRVn-hg@adelphia.com> <1129246269.651992.169350@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:47:24 GMT If you look at the 5th pic down on the More Pictures page you will see the pilot lamp lit and a tube(looks like a 5Y3) and the fuse lamp really lit up. Tor wrote: > K3HVG wrote: > >>Has anyone noticed the fuse/lamp is lit up??? Something's not right!!! >> >> >>f1736 wrote: >> >>>TV-7 D/U Vacuum Tube Tester Hickok Military TV7 Item number: 7553330514 >>> >>> >>>http://cgi.ebay.com/TV-7-D-U-Vacuum-Tube-Tester-Hickok-Military-TV7_W0QQitemZ7553330514QQcategoryZ25422QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem >>> >>>Current bid: $56.00 >>>Auction ends on: Oct-10-05 10:04:24 PDT >>> >>>Only 3 days left. >>> >>> >>>More Pictures: - http://www.geocities.com/f1736/tv7du.htm >>> >>>Thanks >>>Greg Fastabend - (fastabendhotmail) > > > How can it be lit when it isn't plugged in??? The cord and plug is > coiled up in the lid. Lid! > > Ya sure you betcha' > > Tor Johnson > Brimson, Minnesota > Article: 324009 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Gary Tayman" References: Subject: Re: Age failure or manufacturing flaw? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:04:47 GMT Years ago I had a Heathkit stereo tuner and matching amp that had a strange problem. In fact I was able to buy it cheap because of the problem. The sound was weak and tinny. The culprit? There was an electrolytic at the input of the amp that was bad. Both channels did the exact same thing. I replaced both caps, used the stereo for years. I kinda wish I still had it. Both pieces had clear plastic knobs, chrome on the front, and a clear bezel that lit up brightly when turned on. You turned it off and on by pressing the "Heathkit" insignia on the bottom right corner. That was my second neatest stereo, second only to a Fisher I once had. Did I tell you I also once owned an RCA CT-100 color TV? I still have the Sams for it, but what's the Sams worth? Ho hum . . . -- Gary E. Tayman/Tayman Electrical Sound Solutions For Classic Cars http://www.taymanelectrical.com "Rune" wrote in message news:S8A3f.10$H3.9@twister.nyc.rr.com... >I just went over an old noisy phono preamp and found something odd. > > Each channel has 2 caps 100mfd @ 25V and ALL 4 had the same problem. They > checked beautifully for leakage and ESR but were grossly under value. > 33-50% under. > > I have to suppose that this unit worked OK at one time but have a strong > feeling these caps were defective in manufacture. All the other caps in > the unit are excellent although these were the only ones of that value. > > Nippon Chemi-Con brand. Replacing them fixed things. > > Anyone else ever encounter this? > > Ray > Article: 324010 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Gordon Richmond Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Message-ID: References: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:14:51 GMT The posting may continue, but my 1/4wit news server has apparently blocked it. All I get is a couple of messages thanking Sargasso for posting. Weird. Gordon Richmond Article: 324011 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Gordon Richmond Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Message-ID: References: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:21:38 GMT And Google doesn't even acknowledge the group's existence. Weirder still. Gordon Richmond Article: 324012 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "40zeffer" Subject: EARLY VICTOR NSOLE Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:26:11 +0200 Message-ID: HI ALL, I HAVE A PRETTY SWEET R-32 9 TUBE LOWBOY I NEED TO SEND TO A NEW HOME..ANYBODY HERE..IS IT TIME FOR THE FLEA MARKET....TOLEDO OHIO.. Article: 324013 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Ron in Radio Heaven Subject: Re: FA not mine, a Capehart! References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:48:27 GMT Mark Oppat wrote: > > this thing's gotta weigh a ton! > http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/166-CAPEHART-CONSOLE-RADIO-RECORD-PLAYER-MODEL_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28221QQitemZ6567805230QQrdZ1 > It does, I had one like that about 20 years ago. Gave it away for $100. That record flipping mech is a pot metal nightmare. When a friend gave it to me he handed me a box full of pot metal pieces and said here's the rest of the record changer... Ron Article: 324014 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: " Uncle Peter" Subject: Walton From Hell.... Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:00:43 -0400 John Boy's Frankenradio nightmare!!! Arrrgh. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6568695689 Article: 324015 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: " Uncle Peter" References: <1129252461.253328.211610@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:24:41 -0400 wrote in message news:1129252461.253328.211610@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > > Good God, missing 2 tubes, the speaker, the back frame falling apart > and going for $680? Are people just stupid or have more money to burn > then they know what to do with. > Missing the speaker because it is a 12-tube console chassis stuffed into what was probably a 7J cabinet. It's hard to cobble a replacement for the original push-pull 12-tube Walton that won't pass for faked. Also, note the hacked veneer on the front panel, it should be a nice burl. Sides look like they were redone. It will sell for 900 or so, just for the cabinet which can be saved. Pete Article: 324016 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: goodguyy@webtv.net (Ken G.) Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:09:58 -0600 Message-ID: <1233-434F0566-325@storefull-3256.bay.webtv.net> References: To much trouble for us computer handycaps . XM radio plays this 24-7 tossing in tid bits of old news broadcasts and vintage shows . Article: 324017 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Mark S" References: Subject: Re: FA not mine, a Capehart! Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:38:17 GMT "Ron in Radio Heaven" wrote in message news:vfD3f.5776$OM.258950@twister.southeast.rr.com... > Mark Oppat wrote: > > > > this thing's gotta weigh a ton! > > http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/166-CAPEHART-CONSOLE-RADIO-RECORD-PLAYER-MODEL_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28221QQitemZ6567805230QQrdZ1 > > > > It does, I had one like that about 20 years ago. Gave it away > for $100. > That record flipping mech is a pot metal nightmare. > When a friend gave it to me he handed me a box full of pot metal pieces > and said here's the rest of the record changer... > > Ron Damn, the first thing that came to mind was it could be a cutter, need a hefty amp for that. Riders says (2) 20 watt amps and one 14" speaker and one 12 speaker. Appaently there were a few different combos of amps and speakers available for the 400. Look at the @#@%#% motor that apparently drives the turntable fer cryin' out loud! MarkS Article: 324018 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Jeffrey D Angus Subject: Re: FS - TV-7 D/U ebay item #7553330514 References: <1129158379.001408.139340@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <8KKdnaLteOE8NdPeRVn-hg@adelphia.com> Message-ID: <33E3f.497$Hs.462@tornado.socal.rr.com> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:43:27 GMT K3HVG wrote: > Has anyone noticed the fuse/lamp is lit up??? Something's not right!!! Nice trick. Considering that it's not even plugged in. I would take bets on it being a refelction from the over head light. Jeff -- RESTRICTED AREA. Anyone intruding shall immediately become subject to the jurisdiction of military law. Intruders will be subject to lethal force, without warning, and on sight. USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED under the Internal Security Act of 1950. Article: 324019 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: FA not mine, a Capehart! Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:47:28 GMT There's one in Payette whatever the model if I get time money and space. It will be there till Chuck dies and the pawm shop closes if I don't. "Warren Weber" wrote in message news:CNqdnRFesKoHlNLeRVn-ug@bresnan.com... > > "Mark Oppat" wrote in message > news:HP-dneUmhI1xYdPeRVn-uA@comcast.com... > > check the dual audio/power chassis on these! Its not stereo, so whats up > > with that??? this thing's gotta weigh a ton! > > What a nice set if you want the best in a R/PH combo..... > > > > http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/166-CAPEHART-CONSOLE-RADIO-RECORD-PLAYER-MODEL_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28221QQitemZ6567805230QQrdZ1 > > > > Mark Oppat > > Also if you read down there is a 20% buyers premium. The last big auctioneer > we had in town started adding a buyers premium. I quit going to his auctions > and so did a lot of regular buyers. Auctioneer sold out and left town. WW > > Article: 324020 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: Age failure or manufacturing flaw? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:49:32 GMT I've got an AJ-30 you can tackle if you really want it. $10/shipping and that will be 2X my investment in it minus shipping.. "Gary Tayman" wrote in message news:zCC3f.3$fc7.1@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net... > Years ago I had a Heathkit stereo tuner and matching amp that had a strange > problem. In fact I was able to buy it cheap because of the problem. The > sound was weak and tinny. The culprit? There was an electrolytic at the > input of the amp that was bad. Both channels did the exact same thing. I > replaced both caps, used the stereo for years. I kinda wish I still had it. > Both pieces had clear plastic knobs, chrome on the front, and a clear bezel > that lit up brightly when turned on. You turned it off and on by pressing > the "Heathkit" insignia on the bottom right corner. That was my second > neatest stereo, second only to a Fisher I once had. Did I tell you I also > once owned an RCA CT-100 color TV? I still have the Sams for it, but what's > the Sams worth? Ho hum . . . > > > -- > Gary E. Tayman/Tayman Electrical > Sound Solutions For Classic Cars > http://www.taymanelectrical.com > > > > > > "Rune" wrote in message > news:S8A3f.10$H3.9@twister.nyc.rr.com... > >I just went over an old noisy phono preamp and found something odd. > > > > Each channel has 2 caps 100mfd @ 25V and ALL 4 had the same problem. They > > checked beautifully for leakage and ESR but were grossly under value. > > 33-50% under. > > > > I have to suppose that this unit worked OK at one time but have a strong > > feeling these caps were defective in manufacture. All the other caps in > > the unit are excellent although these were the only ones of that value. > > > > Nippon Chemi-Con brand. Replacing them fixed things. > > > > Anyone else ever encounter this? > > > > Ray > > > > Article: 324021 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <1129158379.001408.139340@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <8KKdnaLteOE8NdPeRVn-hg@adelphia.com> <33E3f.497$Hs.462@tornado.socal.rr.com> Subject: Re: FS - TV-7 D/U ebay item #7553330514 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:52:07 GMT Used a desk lamp with a gooseneck and an open Sherwood to do that once. It had no lights otherwise, was unpowered and it looked damned good. "Jeffrey D Angus" wrote in message news:33E3f.497$Hs.462@tornado.socal.rr.com... > > > K3HVG wrote: > > Has anyone noticed the fuse/lamp is lit up??? Something's not right!!! > > Nice trick. Considering that it's not even plugged in. > > I would take bets on it being a refelction from the over head light. > > Jeff > -- > RESTRICTED AREA. Anyone intruding shall immediately become subject to > the jurisdiction of military law. Intruders will be subject to lethal > force, without warning, and on sight. USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED > under the Internal Security Act of 1950. Article: 324022 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Jimdandy" Subject: GE K60 Radio Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:28:41 -0500 This is an unusual set. You can see a picture of it in Morgan's Book of Old Radios. The K-60 was also made by GE to sell by RCA (R-38). I am in need of a good print on pdf. The prints that I have found (Beitman) are just not up to snuff when looking closely for parts values. Wonder if anyone has access to one. Thanks Stanley Adams W4SBA Memphis stanleybadams@yahoo.com From kawninja.at.nospam.cableone.dot.net Sun Oct 16 12:13:51 EDT 2005 Article: 324023 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steve P." Newsgroups: rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:50:03 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <11ku76r7hknj0af@corp.supernews.com> References: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 9 Path: news1.isis.unc.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.115.63.142!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.168.1.162.MISMATCH!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Xref: news1.isis.unc.edu rec.antiques.radio+phono:324023 Looks like somebody at one time gave it a one hour cabinet restoration "quickie". Probably didn't care if it ever played again. " Uncle Peter" wrote in message news:SqD3f.15548$fE5.9049@fed1read06... > John Boy's Frankenradio nightmare!!! Article: 324024 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: " Uncle Peter" References: Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:12:00 -0400 "Mark Oppat" wrote in message news:iqydnSSgEPmmgdLeRVn-iw@comcast.com... > no a nightmare at all... looks like contact paper on the front, but > otherwise this is a start. Now, if it had holes drilled all over the > cabinet or chassis, or the grille bars missing or the dial butchered, sure. > It will be hell to find the original speaker, but you could sure put a nice > ROLA in there and have a playing radio. A perfect one is going for $3500+ > now... not that I agree with that... > > Mark Oppat > > A perfect 12 tuber would probably go for more these days. But, I'd bet that Walton was never a 12 tuber until someone stuffed that chassis in the cabinet. Yep, you can get a speaker that will work in there, but unless it is the correct speaker with the correct Zenith part number, and without the 12S232 stamped on the cabinet rear, the set isn't going to pass muster as being an original. Someone cut in straight grained veneer to replace the original burl on the front. That will be a bear to get right. But, the cabinet is probably worth 900 bucks even in that condition! Pete Article: 324025 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:17:08 GMT It's not much better than the Turkish scams we saw earlier, I reckon, but you can rescue parts her not there. " Uncle Peter" wrote in message news:YlF3f.15556$fE5.3629@fed1read06... > > "Mark Oppat" wrote in message > news:iqydnSSgEPmmgdLeRVn-iw@comcast.com... > > no a nightmare at all... looks like contact paper on the front, but > > otherwise this is a start. Now, if it had holes drilled all over the > > cabinet or chassis, or the grille bars missing or the dial butchered, > sure. > > It will be hell to find the original speaker, but you could sure put a > nice > > ROLA in there and have a playing radio. A perfect one is going for $3500+ > > now... not that I agree with that... > > > > Mark Oppat > > > > > > A perfect 12 tuber would probably go for more these days. But, I'd bet > that Walton was never a 12 tuber until someone stuffed that chassis in > the cabinet. Yep, you can get a speaker that will work in there, but unless > it is the correct speaker with the correct Zenith part number, and without > the 12S232 stamped on the cabinet rear, the set isn't going to pass muster > as being an original. Someone cut in straight grained veneer to replace the > original burl on the front. That will be a bear to get right. But, the > cabinet is > probably worth 900 bucks even in that condition! > > Pete > > > Article: 324026 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Scott W. Harvey" Subject: Re: OT-Computer junk: Akai Factory Service? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:26:02 -0700 Message-ID: References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> <1128955839.459336.235540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2zp3f.216$Xj4.25657@monger.newsread.com> <0yv3f.241$Xj4.27781@monger.newsread.com> Larry wrote: > Me, too. Altairs didn't come with hard drives....(c; > > The Catholic Church gave me an IBM Systems 34, once. It had hard drives, > but I didn't have 3 phase 408VAC to run it. 8 terminals and a chain > printer. Came with complete OS and manufacturing software > accounting/inventory/ordering/etc. for a small manufacturer. Someone > donated it to them. > > Noone wanted it so it ended up in the dumpster(S). I ran out of > storage....not disk storage, storage-storage. No one wanted it because the licensing fees and T & C's for the software are pretty ridiculous, almost extortionist by contemporary standards. It was a gift that would have KILLED a non-profit like a church. Incidentally, there is a way to hack these beasts to work on 110 volt single-phase. A friend of mine did it a dozen or so years ago. It involved using several heavy-duty single phase power supplies and selective separation of low-voltage busses within the unit to load-balance between the supplies. Ahhh, memories. Once upon a time multi-user systems from the likes of IBM and DEC were all the rage. The cost to maintain them was outrageous but users bent over anyway because they had no choice. Then the late 1980's rolled around and many users found they could do just fine with a bunch of networked PCs at 1/20th the price. Sales of the big iron pretty much fell off a cliff in the 1990s as a result. -Scott Article: 324027 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Message-ID: <45306DB5.7CE42D5F@earthlink.net> From: "Michael A. Terrell" Subject: Re: EARLY VICTOR NSOLE References: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:54:17 GMT jdut123@buckeye-express.com wrote: > > OK how do you post 1 day ahead of my reply????? The clock on his computer is not set properly. -- ? Michael A. Terrell Central Florida Article: 324028 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Scott W. Harvey" Subject: Re: Akai Factory Service? Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:59:30 -0700 Message-ID: References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> Rune wrote: > Wish I could get a VCR built like the one I had in the early 80s. Built like > a truck. The same friend that has the Akai had me go over his first VCR a > couple of years ago and it's still running. How old is it? It has rotary > tuners. From '82. > That was back in the days when manufacturers were still using industrial strength professional quality mechanicals in their consumer decks. My folks had a VHS RCA top-loader built by Matsushita that they bought in 1978. They got another one after about seven years of constant use and gave me their old one. I used it for about five more years until one of the clutch bands broke and I was too lazy to repair it (I had three other VCRs). Eventually I took it to the dump. I'll never forget watching the old VCR drop from a height of about 30 feet onto solid concrete at the landfill. When it hit the ground, all the plastic side panels flew off but the rest of the deck remained completely intact as if defying its fate. I now have two Panasonic NV8500 professional editing decks in storage that use essentially the same mechanism. They are huge, heavy and made >from seriously indestructable parts. They are apparently somewhat functional but the grease that was used to lube a lot of the sliding parts has petrified and the belts are shot. Someday I will attempt to restore them, just for the hell of it. -Scott Article: 324029 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:35:45 GMT Because they are either illegal or porn or they don't intend you to view it, maybe all of the above. Otherwise they wouldn't feel the need to do so, comprende? Not a rocket science issue in the least. "Phil B" wrote in message news:rKednQZniexroNLeRVn-1Q@comcast.com... > Larry, > > OK, this brings up a problem I have with yenc files. I use Outlook Express > with the Fidolook add on. Fidolook decodes yenc files, but it falls short > when you do the "combine and decode" on split files. It doesn't combine them > like OE does with regular uuencode files. It just results in a bunch of > decoded files, one per part. There are free programs to combine multi-part > yenc files, but they all seem to require you to save the parts and then > evoke a separate program to combine them. That's a lot of unnecessary work, > especially for a MEGA POST. > > Can you or anyone suggest a newsreader that does the yenc decode AND combine > in one step? Preferably a free newsreader like OE. > > yenc has always been a sore spot for me. In this day of HS internet, the 14% > improvement in transfer speed of yenc vs. uuencode doesn't mean much, and > yet binaries posters seem to favor it at the expense of extra work for those > who want to download. And to top it off, there are several new "pseudo > standards" in the works threatening to make yenc obsolete. > > Phil B > > Phil B > > > "Larry" wrote in message > news:Xns96EE84E0F26EAnoone@63.223.7.253... > > Over on alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1940s is an excellent posting of a great > > mix of 20s, 30s, and 40s music for that kilowatt phono oscillator running > > in the attic to entertain the neighbors. > > > > Looks for MEGA REPOST - Sentimental Journey, which fills most of the > > postings for the last few days. The posting continues! Go get 'em! > > > > As the old record bandwidth was low, whoever encoded them did us all a > > favor and uses 64Kbps MP3 encoding. On an MP3 CDR, you'll get 20 hours on > > it, easy! > > > > I'm going to put these on the antique 20GB portable MP3 player and hide it > > with its little IC amp inside the Motorola 41D 1939 portable. Great fun > > at > > the old-fashioned diner I have breakfast in sometimes....(c; > > > > -- > > Larry > > Article: 324030 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Scott W. Harvey" Subject: Re: FA not mine, a Capehart! Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:25:31 -0700 Message-ID: References: Phil Nelson wrote: > Definitely some serious iron. What is the big round component in the lower > right of the middle compartment in rear chassis view? Looks like an > electrical motor?!? That IS an electrical motor! It's used to power the elaborate side-flipping mechanism on the disc changer. Rumor has it that the changer was prone to destroying disks if too many records were stacked at once. I reckon a motor like that one could make short work of that. -Scott Article: 324031 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: FA not mine, but a nice Silvertone console '36 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:48:57 GMT Yes, that is a nice set, maybe a little more old-fashioned looking than I'd like but it's definitely a Silvertone. I hope it brings the seller a nice sum. "Mark Oppat" wrote in message news:quednWTpIJ3UsdLeRVn-jA@comcast.com... > this is an 8 tube, nice '36 era Silvertone model 1972 console with eye. > Needs a knob (not that hard to find as wood knobs go) and grille cloth > obviously, but the cabinet seems to be solid and with orig. finish methinks. > Seller needs more pix! One of those nice 5 knob sets I like so much... it > might even have the variable IF...would have to look that up. > > couldnt copy the direct link for some reason, here's the # > 6569477110 > > Mark Oppat > > > Article: 324032 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Jeffrey D Angus Subject: Re: OT-Computer junk: Akai Factory Service? References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> <1128955839.459336.235540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2zp3f.216$Xj4.25657@monger.newsread.com> <0yv3f.241$Xj4.27781@monger.newsread.com> Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:31:01 GMT Speaking of old computer junk.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8706273723 I didn't see any Catalan in the collection though... Jeff -- RESTRICTED AREA. Anyone intruding shall immediately become subject to the jurisdiction of military law. Intruders will be subject to lethal force, without warning, and on sight. USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED under the Internal Security Act of 1950. Article: 324033 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: EARLY VICTOR NSOLE From: k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF (John Goller, k9uwa) References: <1129252672.282444.17580@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:40:11 GMT In article <1129252672.282444.17580@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, jdut123@buckeye-express.com says... > > >OK how do you post 1 day ahead of my reply????? > strange clock in his computer! Article: 324034 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: FA not mine, a Capehart! From: k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF (John Goller, k9uwa) References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:49:12 GMT In article , NOT_MY_REAL@email.com says... > > > >-Scott Capehart Panamuse 400 series.... rebuilt one of those critters a couple of years ago.... took 5 guys to unload and reload that thing into the back of a GMC Suburban.... filled the whole back of it too! Local Phono Nutcase friend of ours came out and serviced the Phono for me... I did the electronics and radio part!... Jean did the cabinet part!... I asked my buddy ... what type of records do you put on this thing... his answer... "Red Labels" ... cause they are nearly worthless anyway! Book says... never less than 5 records ... or more than 13 or something like that... and if you follow the instructions... yup that Record Cruncher actually does work! ... put on less than 5 records.. and get ready to duck small flying pieces of record! bet this one goes to the junkyard... everything in it except the speaker... that part will go to Asia for big bucks!.... John k9uwa Article: 324035 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... From: k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF (John Goller, k9uwa) References: <1129252439.310440.169480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:03:57 GMT In article <1129252439.310440.169480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, jdut123@buckeye-express.com says... > > > > Uncle Peter wrote: >> John Boy's Frankenradio nightmare!!! >> >> Arrrgh. >> >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6568695689 Amazing that it actually IS a real 12s232 chassis and it looks pretty clean to me... the box... well the boss is going to look closely at it tomorrow... boy I don't know Mark about that front wood stuff whatever it is.. if thats veneer ... or contact paper?... that worries me more than all the rest of its problems.. the last one we bought had 4 holes in one side... 3/4" ones.. that was an easy fix... John k9uwa Article: 324036 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <9lo2f.11615$Fc4.547@twister.nyc.rr.com> <1128955839.459336.235540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2zp3f.216$Xj4.25657@monger.newsread.com> <0yv3f.241$Xj4.27781@monger.newsread.com> Subject: Re: OT-Computer junk: Akai Factory Service? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:04:29 GMT I used about 7-8 of those models. I do remember seeing this guy's site some time back, too. "Jeffrey D Angus" wrote in message news:FgI3f.527$Jo3.354@tornado.socal.rr.com... > Speaking of old computer junk.... > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8706273723 > > I didn't see any Catalan in the collection though... > > Jeff > > > -- > RESTRICTED AREA. Anyone intruding shall immediately become subject to > the jurisdiction of military law. Intruders will be subject to lethal > force, without warning, and on sight. USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED > under the Internal Security Act of 1950. Article: 324037 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "xrongor" Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:01:01 -0600 Message-ID: References: "Phil B" wrote in message news:rKednQZniexroNLeRVn-1Q@comcast.com... > Larry, > > OK, this brings up a problem I have with yenc files. I use Outlook Express > with the Fidolook add on. Fidolook decodes yenc files, but it falls short > when you do the "combine and decode" on split files. It doesn't combine > them like OE does with regular uuencode files. It just results in a bunch > of decoded files, one per part. There are free programs to combine > multi-part yenc files, but they all seem to require you to save the parts > and then evoke a separate program to combine them. That's a lot of > unnecessary work, especially for a MEGA POST. > > Can you or anyone suggest a newsreader that does the yenc decode AND > combine in one step? Preferably a free newsreader like OE. > > yenc has always been a sore spot for me. In this day of HS internet, the > 14% improvement in transfer speed of yenc vs. uuencode doesn't mean much, > and yet binaries posters seem to favor it at the expense of extra work for > those who want to download. And to top it off, there are several new > "pseudo standards" in the works threatening to make yenc obsolete. yenc is already obsolete because binary newsgroups are obsolete. any 'pseudo standard' that works over top of the usenet model is going backwards. this is not to say that they go unused or that everyone has realized this yet.... that said, have you tried this? http://www.ydecode.com/ i used to use it til my isp dropped binary newsgroups. randy Article: 324038 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Beerbelly Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Message-ID: <0q3vk11r4op3cp5h9ad76io3v76ks7pse1@4ax.com> References: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:58:28 -0400 On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:01:01 -0600, "xrongor" wrote: > >"Phil B" wrote in message >news:rKednQZniexroNLeRVn-1Q@comcast.com... >> Larry, >> >> OK, this brings up a problem I have with yenc files. I use Outlook Express >> with the Fidolook add on. Fidolook decodes yenc files, but it falls short >> when you do the "combine and decode" on split files. It doesn't combine >> them like OE does with regular uuencode files. It just results in a bunch >> of decoded files, one per part. There are free programs to combine >> multi-part yenc files, but they all seem to require you to save the parts >> and then evoke a separate program to combine them. That's a lot of >> unnecessary work, especially for a MEGA POST. >> >> Can you or anyone suggest a newsreader that does the yenc decode AND >> combine in one step? Preferably a free newsreader like OE. >> >> yenc has always been a sore spot for me. In this day of HS internet, the >> 14% improvement in transfer speed of yenc vs. uuencode doesn't mean much, >> and yet binaries posters seem to favor it at the expense of extra work for >> those who want to download. And to top it off, there are several new >> "pseudo standards" in the works threatening to make yenc obsolete. > >yenc is already obsolete because binary newsgroups are obsolete. any >'pseudo standard' that works over top of the usenet model is going >backwards. this is not to say that they go unused or that everyone has >realized this yet.... > >that said, have you tried this? http://www.ydecode.com/ i used to use it >til my isp dropped binary newsgroups. > >randy > Sounds like your ISP is obsolete! Article: 324039 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Beerbelly Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Message-ID: References: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:01:52 -0400 On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:11:24 -0400, "Phil B" wrote: >Larry, > >OK, this brings up a problem I have with yenc files. I use Outlook Express >with the Fidolook add on. Fidolook decodes yenc files, but it falls short >when you do the "combine and decode" on split files. It doesn't combine them >like OE does with regular uuencode files. It just results in a bunch of >decoded files, one per part. There are free programs to combine multi-part >yenc files, but they all seem to require you to save the parts and then >evoke a separate program to combine them. That's a lot of unnecessary work, >especially for a MEGA POST. > >Can you or anyone suggest a newsreader that does the yenc decode AND combine >in one step? Preferably a free newsreader like OE. > Your best bet is to spend a couple bucks and buy a decent newreader. I've been using agent for years and it works great. It's not expensive either. Article: 324040 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: John Bachman Subject: Re: FA not mine, a Capehart! Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 07:53:18 -0500 Message-ID: <1gavk1tl3r68s5pjgkj2j9qjcga11qq15m@4ax.com> References: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:27:55 -0600, "Warren Weber" wrote: > >"Mark Oppat" wrote in message >news:HP-dneUmhI1xYdPeRVn-uA@comcast.com... >> check the dual audio/power chassis on these! Its not stereo, so whats up >> with that??? this thing's gotta weigh a ton! >> What a nice set if you want the best in a R/PH combo..... >> >> http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/166-CAPEHART-CONSOLE-RADIO-RECORD-PLAYER-MODEL_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28221QQitemZ6567805230QQrdZ1 >> >> Mark Oppat > >Also if you read down there is a 20% buyers premium. The last big auctioneer >we had in town started adding a buyers premium. I quit going to his auctions >and so did a lot of regular buyers. Auctioneer sold out and left town. WW > Also if you want to bid you have to agree to a separate agreement, which looks fine to me, but you also have to let the auction house place cookies. I got too damn many cookies now! No cookies, no bid. Who loses? JMHO John Article: 324041 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: wood@itd.nrl.navy.mil (J. B. Wood) Subject: Re: Motorola Take Apart Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:03:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1128842362.030368.203950@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1129159608.661842.154630@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1129260940.665926.106170@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In article <1129260940.665926.106170@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "RadioGary" wrote: > John, > > I hope you did not take what I had to say the wrong way. It's a to > each his own kind of thing. That's what makes this hobby and Ham Radio > so diverse. I've met many collectors who do things differently. We > all have our thing. As long as we have interest in the hobby, that's > what makes it enjoyable. These days it's getting difficult to find a > good old set that hasn't been restored in a bad way. Badly mismatched > speakers, painted cabinets, and my personal favorite, a heavy duty > extension cord off of a hedge trimmer stuffed inside a bakelite deco > radio. > > Enjoyy the hobby as I have. I've learned more about electronics in the > few years I've been fixing up old radios than in decades of being a Ham > Radio enthusiast. No offense to that either. Take care, GB.... Certainly no offense taken, Gary. One of the reasons I hang out on this ng is that I really do enjoy reading the posts and learning something new. Also r.a.r.p is the first stop when looking for parts or schematics. Sincerely and 73s, John Wood (Code 5550) e-mail: wood@itd.nrl.navy.mil Naval Research Laboratory 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20375-5337 Article: 324042 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Hagstar Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:15:06 -0400 Message-ID: <11kv8acddt8ca4a@corp.supernews.com> References: <1129252439.310440.169480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> jdut123@buckeye-express.com wrote: > > > > Good God, missing 2 tubes, the speaker, the back frame falling apart > and going for $680? Are people just stupid or have more money to burn > then they know what to do with. > A correct bargain price for this at a *swap* EXACTLY as it us would be about $1000-. I'd bid that but why bother as it will go much higher. John H. Article: 324043 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <1gavk1tl3r68s5pjgkj2j9qjcga11qq15m@4ax.com> Subject: Re: FA not mine, a Capehart! Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:53:45 GMT Gee, you win, you collect, you delete cookies. There's a button for that one: Tools/Internet Options/Temporary Internet Files/Delete Cookies (or files)... In 23 years on one of these things, I've yet to find a "monster" cookie. "John Bachman" wrote in message news:1gavk1tl3r68s5pjgkj2j9qjcga11qq15m@4ax.com... > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:27:55 -0600, "Warren Weber" SPAM@1236bresnan.net> wrote: > > > > >"Mark Oppat" wrote in message > >news:HP-dneUmhI1xYdPeRVn-uA@comcast.com... > >> check the dual audio/power chassis on these! Its not stereo, so whats up > >> with that??? this thing's gotta weigh a ton! > >> What a nice set if you want the best in a R/PH combo..... > >> > >> http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/166-CAPEHART-CONSOLE-RADIO-RECORD-PLAYER-MODEL_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ28221QQitemZ6567805230QQrdZ1 > >> > >> Mark Oppat > > > >Also if you read down there is a 20% buyers premium. The last big auctioneer > >we had in town started adding a buyers premium. I quit going to his auctions > >and so did a lot of regular buyers. Auctioneer sold out and left town. WW > > > Also if you want to bid you have to agree to a separate agreement, > which looks fine to me, but you also have to let the auction house > place cookies. I got too damn many cookies now! > > No cookies, no bid. Who loses? > > JMHO > > John Article: 324044 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <1129158379.001408.139340@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <8KKdnaLteOE8NdPeRVn-hg@adelphia.com> <33E3f.497$Hs.462@tornado.socal.rr.com> Subject: Re: FS - TV-7 D/U ebay item #7553330514 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:54:49 GMT Maybe Major Armstrong is trying to channel. "K3HVG" wrote in message news:W7GdneR7zOVcHtLeRVn-uA@adelphia.com... > Its the wrong bulb, too. It sticks out way too far. Maybe that's the > problem. Correct bulb.. no prob??? > > Article: 324045 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <1129295383.436463.85910@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Age failure or manufacturing flaw? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:59:42 GMT So far, everything BUT caps has been my trouble concerning older Pioneer, as it's mostly mechanical (one blown output stage). ELNA, OTOH is a brand I sometimes wonder about. wrote in message news:1129295383.436463.85910@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... > > Rune wrote: > > I just went over an old noisy phono preamp and found something odd. > > > > Each channel has 2 caps 100mfd @ 25V and ALL 4 had the same problem. They > > checked beautifully for leakage and ESR but were grossly under value. 33-50% > > under. > > > > I have to suppose that this unit worked OK at one time but have a strong > > feeling these caps were defective in manufacture. All the other caps in the > > unit are excellent although these were the only ones of that value. > > > > Nippon Chemi-Con brand. Replacing them fixed things. > > > > Anyone else ever encounter this? > > All the time. > > I see numerous older solid state units, 60's/70's (consumer audio and > MI/studio gear) that will have a few of one particular value/production > run, where two or more of that same cap 'batch' are bad; at that point, > SOP here is to replace *all* of that value/run in the unit. > > Frequently, as you evidently found, the other 'cap batchs' in a piece > are still 'OK'. > > IMO it's a chemical/age 'timeout' (*not* 'original manufacturing > tolerances'.) My empirical evidence of this, your particular case > included, is that if we assume that the equipment worked correctly for > some period of time from new, and replacing (only) the one value/run of > caps (as you did) fixes it, the logical conclusion is that only those > caps have 'changed' (deteriorated...) > > The phenomena makes my quotes for i.e. older Pioneer Hi-Fi units high > (lots of labor to replace lots of caps...) > > You didn't mantion the actual fault(s) in said preamp, so I can't use > my crystal ball for any other fault analysis; i.e. if they were > decoupler caps, or bypass caps, it's quite possible that *another* > component has changed value/deteriorated, i.e. I also see high value > resistors in SS pieces go up in value (and potentially the original > 'measuring half value' ~50 mfd caps were adequate for their 'circuit > job' before the other circuit component value drifted...) > > Before the day of Spice and other CAD engineering approaches, many > circuits were simply breadboarded and subsequently manufactured after > prototyping without real consideration given to failure analysis (i.e. > what happens if this part goes 5% up in value?); I periodically see > circuits that have one 'magic' part that by nature is assumed to be in > a +-20% tolerance 'OK' situation (and indeed it's a 20% spec part), but > turns out to have critical application, such that 'normal' drift ends > up causing (IMO) a 'premature' circuit failure... > > Bottom line? It's fixed, Congratulations(! ......next) > -Robert > Article: 324046 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <1129252439.310440.169480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <11kv8acddt8ca4a@corp.supernews.com> Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:01:49 GMT "Hagstar" wrote in message news:11kv8acddt8ca4a@corp.supernews.com... > > > jdut123@buckeye-express.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > Good God, missing 2 tubes, the speaker, the back frame falling apart > > and going for $680? Are people just stupid or have more money to burn > > then they know what to do with. > > > > A correct bargain price for this at a *swap* EXACTLY as it us would be > about $1000-. I'd bid that but why bother as it will go much higher. > > John H. Yaah, and them that has, can have. I would like to get out of debt before I'm 40 (June). Article: 324047 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? From: Ron Ramirez References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:26:11 GMT Yes, Xnews. It combines and decodes yEnc files automatically...and it's free. http://xnews.newsguy.com/ -- Ron Ramirez - Evansville, Indiana Visit PhilcoRadio.com at http://www.philcoradio.com/ and the new Philco Phorum at http://philcoradio.com/phpBB2/index.php "Phil B" wrote in news:rKednQZniexroNLeRVn-1Q@comcast.com: > Can you or anyone suggest a newsreader that does the yenc decode AND > combine in one step? Preferably a free newsreader like OE. Article: 324048 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:09:26 -0400 From: Bill Subject: Re: FA: Is this a scam? Item 5819322766 References: Message-ID: Bill Cohn wrote: > http://cgi.ebay.com/Zenith-D60WLCD-60-LCD-Projection-HDTV-Ready-TV_W0QQitemZ5819322766QQcategoryZ73374QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > > > This auction looks like a scam. A 60" Zenith HDTV LCD Projector for > $75.00 and shipped for $85.00. The seller only accepts wire transfers. > Give me a break!!! > > Ebay item number: 5819322766 Looks like a hijacked account. -Bill Article: 324049 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:11:12 -0400 From: Bill Subject: Re: New growth business -- buying up cathedrals and discarding the References: Message-ID: <7bc03$434fe6b1$4232bdc7$8975@COQUI.NET> Phil Nelson wrote: > The following email came in today. > > (Grrr!) > SNIP It was nice of you to delete the person's email address. That will save him much grief. -Bill Article: 324050 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: Is this a scam? Item 5819322766 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:15:18 GMT You know what to do, then. "Bill Cohn" wrote in message news:s8-dnco798cyRNLenZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d@comcast.com... > http://cgi.ebay.com/Zenith-D60WLCD-60-LCD-Projection-HDTV-Ready-TV_W0QQitemZ5819322766QQcategoryZ73374QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > > This auction looks like a scam. A 60" Zenith HDTV LCD Projector for > $75.00 and shipped for $85.00. The seller only accepts wire transfers. > Give me a break!!! > > Ebay item number: 5819322766 Article: 324051 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: New growth business -- buying up cathedrals and discarding the chassis Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:17:00 GMT You also know what to do. "Phil Nelson" wrote in message news:bPOdnaJ7-tGLftLeRVn-hg@giganews.com... > The following email came in today. > > (Grrr!) > > Phil Nelson > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: > >To: Phil Nelson (Phil's Old Radios) > >Subject: Inquiry > > > >I am looking for cathedral style wooden radios. I am replacing the > >electronics. Please advise on what you have for sale and the pricing. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Phil Nelson (Phil's Old Radios) > >To: > >Subject: Re: Inquiry > > > >Do you mean that you remove the old electronics and put in > >new stuff? What do you do with the old chassis? > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: > >To: Phil Nelson (Phil's Old Radios) > >Subject: Re: Inquiry > > > >I remove the old electronics and put in new stuff. I generally > >discard the old electronics or place them in the "bone pile". > >I adapt the new electronics to the existing openings in the > >cabinet. As I am creating the electronics, this is straight > >forward. I am using current technologies in vintage cases > >for the visual emotional impact. I am making these for > >friends who have admired mine. > > > >My interest is in wooden cabinets. The cathedral are of > >greatest interest, but other art deco style units are also. > > > >Let me know what you may have that you would like to > >sell and the pricing. > >---------- > > Article: 324052 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Larry Fowkes" References: Subject: Re: WLS and other tube questions Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:45:48 -0400 Message-ID: <434feff3$0$14236$2c56edd9@news.cablerocket.com> "Bruce Mercer" wrote in message news:jKydnR86QZhJcdLenZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@sigecom.net... > I've been sorting some tubes I've had for years and have a couple questions. > What are these? > Globe, base marked WLS in lightning bolts and 2976. Was this related in any > way to WLS Chicago? > > Radiotron globe... > UX-200. What kind of tube is this and what was it found in? > > Finally, a Radiotron UX 199. I found this one in my only manual...was this > for an early D.C. set? > Bruce > The WLS 2976 is in fact an O1A and was sold by Sears who also owned the WLS station at one time. I believe WLS stood for "Worlds Largest Store". There is a web site, sorry don't have the url handy, that goes into a great deal of history about WLS, very interesting reading. Larry Fowkes Article: 324053 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? From: Larry References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:00:23 -0400 "Phil B" wrote in news:rKednQZniexroNLeRVn- 1Q@comcast.com: > I use Outlook Express Yecch! The WORST! Here's my boilerplate instructions. Download and install Xnews for free. It simply threads and displays all the pieces as one one, downloads them all together, decodes any kind of encoding transparently, and put them where you told it to when you started.....even while you're not home. Here's the plan: HOW TO DOWNLOAD BINARY FILES FROM USENET: Go to http://xnews.newsguy.com and download the latest Xnews freeware client. Xnews downloads, decodes and stores multipart binaries in any format uploaded to Usenet, automatically. Install it like any other software then boot it up....we'll wait. When it comes up it will ask you for your news server address. Get this >from your Internet provider website. If your ISP doesn't provide news server access, may I recommend http://www.usenetserver.com in Atlanta as your news provider. Truly unlimited service on 6 ports as fast as your connection can go costs merely $14.95/month, cheaper if you buy 3 months at a time, online. Use your credit card and they will automatically bill you. Once you get your news server address, something like news.podunknet.com, enter it into the news address box in Xnews. From the main window of Xnews, click "Special" then "Setup Xnews" and the server address(es) are on the opening window. Xnews supports multiple servers from multiple companies, no problem. Each has his own setup page. Enter the news server name in the box provided. If you need authentication, the username and password boxes are provided here, too. Add them and click the appropriate checkbox. When you click OK Xnews will proceed to connect to the server and download all 74395 newsgroups, or whatever number it has on it. You need this list to select which topics or binary groups you want to open. Let it finish downloading them all. On dialup this is a long process. The list of newsgroups will open an Xnews window displaying them all in order. If you see nothing, click the ALL button and all the newsgroups show up. Normally, once you get going, you will only see newsgroups you've "subscribed" to. Subscribe is inside Xnews and has nothing to do with the server. It merely moves your favorite groups to the top of the list and only displays your favorites unless you click the ALL button down. Slide down the list and look for things that interest you. There are thousands! You may open any group you see without subscribing to it by simply doubleclicking on the group name. This lets you look the group over before subscribing to see if it's what you're interested in. As we're talking about binary music files, slide down the list until you get to alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.jazz and subscribe to it by clicking the + key on your 10-key keypad. The icon will change showing it is subscribed. You can unsubscribe from any newsgroup at any time by pointing to it on this list and clicking the - key on the 10key pad. Ok, it's subscribed, click the ALL button 'up' and you should only see one subscribed newsgroup in the blank window. Doubleclick on the jazz newsgroup to open its new window, the message list window. If there are way too many messages in a newsgroup, and there are in binary newsgroups that are active, Xnews will open a special popup window to ask you to set some limits on how many messages it is to download to look at. This window has two "slider controls" across the top and boxes that tell you how many messages are between the current settings of the sliders. You click and drag the sliders sideways to move them. Click the beginning slider and move it to the right until you only see 100,000 messages or less in the message counter window. The longer the message list is, the more memory it necessarily gobbles up. The shorter the list is, the faster everything operates. My old slow Win98SE 550Mhz 128M machine bogs over 100K messages. Too few messages and you miss songs in an album someone has posted. Click OK and the message limits you selected will start loading the XOVER data, the message list. Let the whole list load. After it's loaded, Xnews will sort, thread and alphabetize the messages by subject field, automatically. To sort another way, simply click the top of the field down to resort the list, by date for instance or uploader guy. Leave it by subject, for now. That's normally the way you use it. Xnews threaded all the parts to a multi-part binary together into ONE LINE on the list, noting in a field to the right 12/12 for 12 messages of 12 expected. When it finds all the parts to this binary, a light blue Rubix cube icon shows up on the left side of this line, this song on an MP3 group. That means all the parts are available and the song will play. If parts are missing, a dark blue partial Rubix cube icon will show. You can't get that binary because it's not available. There are new methods with PAR files to recreate it but I'm not covering them, now. Don't try to download partial files for now. There are thousands of good files to listen to in any group. Movies are another, more complex animal, but that's another instruction file. Slide down the list and see that posters normally post subject lines that go in order, in MP3 groups, in the order of the songs on an album, normally. Stop sliding when you come to a group of songs you like (or dislike for this exercise). Notice just to the right of the Subject fields is a field marked 'Q' at the top...Q is for que. To download binary files, without you even having to be in the house, Xnews has a que built into it. You can select one MP3 by simply clicking on that line's Q space and a number will appear, the first number is 1. The next number is 1 + how many ever messages are in the first file. The last number you clicked is always how many messages are left in the que. On broadband cable or DSL, don't click up numbers higher than 30,000 messages. 10,000 is more comfortable. That's LOTS of music...hours and hours! If you click on the first song Q field in an album and DRAG down the Q fields across all the songs in that album, they'll all light up with numbers in the Q field, putting them all in the download que. For now, click and drag one album, probably about 15 songs in a row. SPECIAL WARNING - NEVER, EVER, EVER DOWNLOAD ANY KIND OF BINARY FILE THAT RUNS! THEY ARE ALL VIRUS/TROJANS TO DESTROY YOUR SYSTEM. NO .EXE, .COM, .BAT, .DLL, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF PROGRAM FILES!! ONLY PICTURES, TEXT, MUSIC (MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMV, WAV, etc.) files should be downloaded and decoded. I don't care how much you want that software he posted, DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY SOFTWARE!! It's just too dangerous to download from Usenet and run any program! 'Nuf said... Ok, we have an album selected. Down in the middle of the bottom, you see a Rubix Cube button...the Download button. Click it and Xnews opens up a standard old Windows folder selector window. Xnews is asking you where you want it to put the music! If you don't have a place, TYPE the path name in you want it to create like C:\JAZZ DOWNLOAD and it won't find what you typed. It will popup another window asking you if you want it to create a new directory to put these files into...Click Yes and we're on our way. Without typing, you can browse to select an existing folder/directory in the tree, like with other programs. Xnews is now downloading text encoded binary files in pieces limited to 10,000 lines by the design of Usenet, which was never designed for binary files in the first place. It is decoding the downloaded text messages, on the fly, into the original binary code, in this case MP3 data, and storing it, ready to play, where you told it to (even in the root directory if you screwed up selecting the directory, by the way). It will stop when the que is completed and just sit and wait for your return. Double click on the MP3 files over in C:\JAZZ DOWNLOAD and whatever player your system is configured to use will play it, just fine. There, you are now a music pirate....arrest yourself and turn yourself in to the nearest astonished cop trying to keep a straight face. END OF TEXT FILE...... Mine downloads nearly 24/7, here. Why pay for XM when you can play what YOU want, not them, for free! -- Larry Article: 324054 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? From: Larry References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:05:40 -0400 "xrongor" wrote in news:dins09$55qe$1@news3.infoave.net: > i used to use it > til my isp dropped binary newsgroups. > Usenetserver is only $15/month for UNLIMITED downloading with no censoring even in non-binary groups. You can connect to 6 ports simultaneously. I'm downloading from two of them while I'm typing this to you. They had a bad day, a couple of days ago. Two RAID drives crashed and the posts couldn't be recovered, but that's not normal. I have over 21M MP3 files and 6K full length movies all downloaded from usenet. NEVER connect to a sharing program...that's crap waiting for some kid's 64Kbps modem to send you something when you get full-bandwidth downloading (4Mbps here) from your local usenet server with unlimited bandwidth. You can test out Usenetserver for $3 to see how it works for you for 3 days. Give 'em a try. -- Larry Article: 324055 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? From: Larry References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:07:10 -0400 Beerbelly wrote in news:cu3vk1ta3okkudbmksu9q8pjh0jghihft8@4ax.com: > Your best bet is to spend a couple bucks and buy a decent newreader. > I've been using agent for years and it works great. It's not expensive > either. > Agent sucks compared to Xnews for que'd binary downloading. Xnews is freeware, and always has been. Works great. Read my boilerplate post on basically how it works in the other message. -- Larry Article: 324056 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:26:27 -0400 From: Bill Subject: Re: WLS and other tube questions References: <434feff3$0$14236$2c56edd9@news.cablerocket.com> Message-ID: <8006$434ff856$4232bd67$3953@COQUI.NET> Larry Fowkes wrote: > "Bruce Mercer" wrote in message > news:jKydnR86QZhJcdLenZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@sigecom.net... > >>I've been sorting some tubes I've had for years and have a couple > > questions. > >>What are these? >>Globe, base marked WLS in lightning bolts and 2976. Was this related in > > any > >>way to WLS Chicago? >> >>Radiotron globe... >>UX-200. What kind of tube is this and what was it found in? >> >>Finally, a Radiotron UX 199. I found this one in my only manual...was this >>for an early D.C. set? >>Bruce >> > The '00 was primarily a detector tube. Not a total vacuum, somewhat gassy by design. The '99 was the predecessor (so to speak) to the 01s. Little triode, very kind to batteries in regard to consumption. Very low gain by later (late 20s) standards. -BM Article: 324057 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:37:47 -0400 From: Bill Subject: Re: New growth business -- buying up cathedrals and discarding the References: <7bc03$434fe6b1$4232bdc7$8975@COQUI.NET> Message-ID: <235fe$434ffafe$4232bd67$14949@COQUI.NET> Phil Nelson wrote: >>It was nice of you to delete the person's email address. That will save >>him much grief. > > > Before loosing the hounds on him, I sent some positive suggestions: > > 1. Send your friends to to buy a nice repro > cathedral with modern electronics. Then you can leave vintage radios to > those who appreciate them. > > 2. Contact the nearest radio collector club to see if anyone has some empty > cabinets, or, if you insist on operating a chop shop, see if anyone there > will take your discarded chassis to save them from the landfill. > > I also pointed out that if he is chopping up things like a Zenith "Walton's" > set, he may destroy something that's more valuable than he thinks! > > Phil Nelson > > We had a nice (long) discussion on the Forum with a lady who does those "shabby chic" paint jobs on old radios. Fortunately she knows a junker when she sees one. In fact, the item that generated the discussion was offered for sale with no takers before she went after it to paint pink roses and ivy. And yes, it is true, it was a piece of junk by anybody else's standards. Not even a decent parts set - not that it matters - parting out a set is little different than making a Paris Cottage Chic decoration piece out of it. For these ungodly 'artistic reincarnations' to have THE right appeal they must inherently be an OLD radio cabinet. That rules out the modern replicas. (What a pity!) A good quality stripper will un-chic an old cabinet in a heartbeat. Keep your eyes open...you may find a Walton's cabinet hiding under a chic paintjob someday for little money! -Bill Article: 324058 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Brian Hill" References: Subject: Re: Is this a scam? Item 5819322766 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:30:45 -0500 "Bill Cohn" wrote in message > This auction looks like a scam. Of course it is. You cant even buy the stand for that amount used. I did see some refurbished ones doing a search for around $1500- 1900. B.H. Article: 324059 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Brian Hill" References: Subject: Re: A Good Clough-Brengle day Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:41:18 -0500 You should go play the Lottery Ron. With that luck you'll win : ) B.H. Article: 324060 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Hagstar Subject: Attention Pennsylvanians Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:42:15 -0400 Message-ID: <11l02gph0a3avf5@corp.supernews.com> I am thinking of taking a swing through *northeast* PA during a visit to the NYC area at the end of the month. Can anyone recommend an out of the way pocket of antique stores? Thanks! John H. Article: 324061 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: Subject: Re: A Good Clough-Brengle day Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:56:10 GMT With his stature as a leader in his regions's radio groups, and after seeing the wonderful site and items he's collected all his life, not to mention his many friends, didn't he win a long time ago? "Brian Hill" wrote in message news:xRT3f.7525$nE2.2585@fe03.lga... > > You should go play the Lottery Ron. With that luck you'll win : ) > > B.H. > > Article: 324062 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "xrongor" Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:59:10 -0600 Message-ID: References: "Larry" wrote in message news:Xns96EF8EBEEE7D7noone@63.223.7.253... > "xrongor" wrote in > news:dins09$55qe$1@news3.infoave.net: > >> i used to use it >> til my isp dropped binary newsgroups. >> > > Usenetserver is only $15/month for UNLIMITED downloading with no censoring > even in non-binary groups. You can connect to 6 ports simultaneously. > I'm > downloading from two of them while I'm typing this to you. They had a bad > day, a couple of days ago. Two RAID drives crashed and the posts couldn't > be recovered, but that's not normal. I have over 21M MP3 files and 6K > full > length movies all downloaded from usenet. NEVER connect to a sharing > program...that's crap waiting for some kid's 64Kbps modem to send you > something when you get full-bandwidth downloading (4Mbps here) from your > local usenet server with unlimited bandwidth. > > You can test out Usenetserver for $3 to see how it works for you for 3 > days. Give 'em a try. i prefer to use the 'free' website im already paying for to host pictures in a format where anyone with a browser (made in the last say 10 years) can see them. i got too many 'only 15$ a month's" already. and im fundamentally rooting for the long overdue death of binary newsgroups anyway. randy Article: 324063 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: New growth business -- buying up cathedrals and discarding the From: k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF (John Goller, k9uwa) References: <7bc03$434fe6b1$4232bdc7$8975@COQUI.NET> Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:58:48 GMT In article <7bc03$434fe6b1$4232bdc7$8975@COQUI.NET>, exray@coqui.net says... > > >It was nice of you to delete the person's email address. That will save >him much grief. > >-Bill now that about 90% of the newsgroup is good and pissed off at this obvious idiot.... how about now to pop in his email addy.... website would be better if he has one... John k9uwa Article: 324064 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... From: k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF (John Goller, k9uwa) References: <1129252439.310440.169480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <11kv8acddt8ca4a@corp.supernews.com> Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:04:11 GMT In article <11kv8acddt8ca4a@corp.supernews.com>, yonnyKILL@SPAMMERSatt.net says... > > >A correct bargain price for this at a *swap* EXACTLY as it us would be >about $1000-. I'd bid that but why bother as it will go much higher. > >John H. > HI Hagster .... not too sure about this one going up much from where it is now... won't be me for sure.. I had the boss come in and look at the pictures this morning... also had an email back from the lady seller... first the seller assured me that it isn't contact paper... she said she thinks that the front on it is oak veneer.... and a good job of installing it.... Now for the bosses opinion..... she said this one will never again be a nice Walton Cabinet... that is going to be one serious problem to get that crap off the front and replace with proper burl veneer.. next ... look closely at the rear view.. there is too much wood across the top to pull the framework back together.. like perhaps they replaced the top and made it too wide?... Sounds to me like a good winter project for the Hagster!... John k9uwa Article: 324065 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: " Uncle Peter" References: <1129252439.310440.169480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <11kv8acddt8ca4a@corp.supernews.com> Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... Message-ID: <9bV3f.15745$fE5.9532@fed1read06> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:12:48 -0400 "John Goller, k9uwa" wrote in message news:f3V3f.247797$084.121467@attbi_s22... > In article <11kv8acddt8ca4a@corp.supernews.com>, > > > Now for the bosses opinion..... she said this one will never again > be a nice Walton Cabinet... > > that is going to be one serious problem to get that crap off the front > and replace with proper burl veneer.. > > next ... look closely at the rear view.. there is too much wood across > the top to pull the framework back together.. like perhaps they replaced > the top and made it too wide?... > > Sounds to me like a good winter project for the Hagster!... > > John k9uwa > John The base didn't like quite right either, but I can't tell for sure. What does your eyes say? A good job for Hagstar or eddie. Pete Article: 324066 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? From: Larry References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:03:04 -0400 "xrongor" wrote in news:dip2ia$60gv$1@news3.infoave.net: > and im fundamentally rooting for the long overdue death of binary > newsgroups anyway. > > randy > > Don't hold your breath. Usenetserver has just ordered 20 TERAbytes more disk storage space, trying to keep up with the load so the retention is 30 days. There's 83TB online, today. Binary newsgroups keep expanding, way beyond the point where you can download 10% of it at 4Mbps on broadband. It's advantage is anonymity over p2p, which is for the stupids. I'll never figure out why anyone would want to connect on Napster or any of the others when you can easily download such an amazing variety from a local-to-your- isp usenet server MUCH faster. (Of course, I'm trying to figure out why anyone would buy a PROPRIETARY Ipod or other MP3 player that requires special software that sucks to load it, instead of an Archos or Digital Mind that the computer treats like a USB hard drive with no restrictions.) -- Larry Article: 324067 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Ron in Radio Heaven Subject: Re: A Good Clough-Brengle day References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:11:32 GMT Steven Dinius_ wrote: > With his stature as a leader in his regions's radio groups, and after seeing > the wonderful site and items he's collected all his life, not to mention his > many friends, didn't he win a long time ago? > You bet, I won a long time ago. I've been enjoying a hobby that I love for more than 35 years. I have lots of friends and I feel like I've been able to "make a difference" in this hobby I love. It don't get much better than that. Let's talk about "luck" for a minute. The Clough-Brengle transmitter that I just got. I tried really hard 5 years ago to win it on ebay. I was unemployed at the time. I convinced my wife that I HAD to have this transmitter, I would sale something >from the collection to put the money back in the bank after I won it. At the time I only had a really slow dialup connection and because of that I got beat out in the last few seconds by someone else. I was so bummed out I couldn't hardly stand it. I contacted the winner and told him that if he ever wanted to sell it to let me know. About a week after the sale ended I got an email from the winner telling me that the seller had shipped it UPS and that it was "severely" damaged in shipment. Now I was bummed out even more. Fast forward to about 5 weeks ago. I get an email from a good friend telling me someone he knows has a Clough-Brengle model 87 for sale. Now for the last couple of months I've been doing a lot of research and writing on Clough-Brengle test equipment. They had pieces of test equipment with model numbers 88 & 89, so the model 87 didn't ring the bell as it should have. I replied to my friend that I would be interested in hearing about it, thinking that it was just another C-B sig. gen. or something. His friend sent me an email a few days later, and when I scrolled down to see the attached photo I almost dropped my teeth, IT'S A TRANSMITTER!!!! I first thought, "my god there's another one". When I went back and reread his message and saw where it was located and then did a little closer looking, and comparing it to the photos I had saved from the ebay sale I discovered that it was the same transmitter. I was to find out that after it was damaged the new owner never got around to doing anything with it and was ready to let it go. He didn't remember me or that I was interested in buying. I expect that had I not found out about it in time it would have found it's self sitting on a flea market table at a Penn. area hamfest. So here's the luck, had it not been damaged, I doubt if he would have sold it, he also sold it to me for a good bit less than he paid for it on ebay since it was damaged. And a little more luck, the damage wasn't all that sever. I already have several of the damaged parts coming to me >from the friend that told me about it being for sale. I'm sure I'll be able to successfully repair or replace any of the damaged parts. Yep, Luck is what it was alright. 73, Ron http://radioheaven.homestead.com/CB87.html Article: 324068 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "William R. Walsh" References: <%Px3f.251$Xj4.28561@monger.newsread.com> Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:12:07 GMT Hi! http://manyrumours.tripod.com/imagelib/sitebuilder/pictures/photos2go_images/entertainment/468977.jpg Steven, what kind of speaker is that? I want one! William Article: 324069 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <7bc03$434fe6b1$4232bdc7$8975@COQUI.NET> Subject: Re: New growth business -- buying up cathedrals and discarding the Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:25:45 GMT Let him spread the word we're "angry crackpots" etc when we piss him back..that will be beneficial? Leave him to his "strange" theories and concentrate on what we "can" do. He does have every right to engage in commerce or "Art" as we do, as long as our society finds it both desireable and also "legal". Even if he's a total idiot (and truly an EE) do we need to recieve badmouthing from disgruntled potential fans of our hobby and business(es) over X in lost sets? Sounds like a drag...and fickle consumers may well change their tastes and lead him top other pursuits... Anybody knows the only one to change you IS you, and Phil likely said all that cold be said in the process. "John Goller, k9uwa" wrote in message news:c_U3f.486973$xm3.249877@attbi_s21... > In article <7bc03$434fe6b1$4232bdc7$8975@COQUI.NET>, exray@coqui.net > says... > > > > > >It was nice of you to delete the person's email address. That will save > >him much grief. > > > >-Bill > > now that about 90% of the newsgroup is good and pissed off at this > obvious idiot.... how about now to pop in his email addy.... website > would be better if he has one... > > John k9uwa > Article: 324070 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <%Px3f.251$Xj4.28561@monger.newsread.com> Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:32:49 GMT I don't know, it is a stock shot, and if I got into the setup I might find the...nope. Google calls them all "image". Hint--I think I just entered "Loudspeaker"...let me search my hard drive later snd I'll see if I can ID it. WHAAAT, YOU DON'T LIKE THE BREAKDANCING GREY ALIEN??? "William R. Walsh" wrote in message news:X2W3f.435919$x96.321487@attbi_s72... > Hi! > > http://manyrumours.tripod.com/imagelib/sitebuilder/pictures/photos2go_images/entertainment/468977.jpg > > Steven, what kind of speaker is that? > > I want one! > > William > > Article: 324071 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Tim Mullen Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:41:27 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: In Larry writes: >"xrongor" wrote in >news:dip2ia$60gv$1@news3.infoave.net: >> and im fundamentally rooting for the long overdue death of binary >> newsgroups anyway. >Don't hold your breath. Usenetserver has just ordered 20 TERAbytes more >disk storage space, trying to keep up with the load so the retention is 30 >days. There's 83TB online, today. Binary newsgroups keep expanding, way >beyond the point where you can download 10% of it at 4Mbps on broadband. >It's advantage is anonymity over p2p, which is for the stupids. Randy's not talking about peer-to-peer vs. client-server, he's talking about the propagation model of Usenet. Posts traverse the backbone over and over and over, whether anyone reads them or not. This adds a lot of unnecessary traffic. A better way is to store the files on a server, thereby having them clog up the backbone exactly once for each person who wants them. There are even already handy, well-proven protocols such as ftp & http to help you out. -- Tim Mullen ------------------------------------------------------------------ Am I in your basement? Looking for antique televisions, fans, etc. ------ finger this account or call anytime: (212)-463-0552 ------- Article: 324072 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: HERE'S THE SPEAKER FOR THAT STROMBERG 240 SOMEONE BOUGHT From: k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF (John Goller, k9uwa) References: <11ki75trlfqsa6b@corp.supernews.com> <1129329068.761540.325900@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:42:43 GMT In article <1129329068.761540.325900@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, pdieten@yahoo.com says... > > >it seems to work well. I'm >pleased. > >paul > Hellava Show Paul! John k9uwa Article: 324073 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <11l02gph0a3avf5@corp.supernews.com> Subject: Re: Attention Pennsylvanians (Slight SS OT for braggin' rights)... Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:43:19 GMT I reckon, Maine is cool too if Yonny's hanging there, but Ontario has all the interesting hard to find stuff, like my Silvertone 4589, and this, an EARLY Technics cassette, which I just picked up needing a belt, level knob and oscillating on R Ch, which I hope to fix, but it plays. This would be a '74 if not one of the very first tape decks, horizontal loading, flip open door Dolby B AND an outboard Dolby FM decoder! The response is terrible (today) at 13000 HZ with chrome and maybe 60 dB with Dolby on, but for 3.75 it's historic. http://www.vintagetechnics.com/tapedecks/rs676us.htm http://www.vintagetechnics.com/tapedecks.htm "Mark Oppat" wrote in message news:vOWdnYNhedBJrc3eRVn-jw@comcast.com... > I dont live there, but in my opinion, PA is the BEST state for higher end > radios! Seems the higher end and unique radio stuff on eBay is all from > there. > > Mark Oppat > > > "Hagstar" wrote in message > news:11l02gph0a3avf5@corp.supernews.com... > > I am thinking of taking a swing through *northeast* PA during a visit to > > the NYC area at the end of the month. Can anyone recommend an out of the > > way pocket of antique stores? Thanks! > > > > John H. > > > > > > > Article: 324074 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: <11l02gph0a3avf5@corp.supernews.com> Subject: Re: Attention Pennsylvanians (Slight SS OT for braggin' rights)... Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:44:33 GMT Switch knob (for B NR) I mean "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> wrote in message news:bwW3f.318$Xj4.46169@monger.newsread.com... > I reckon, Maine is cool too if Yonny's hanging there, but Ontario has all > the interesting hard to find stuff, like my Silvertone 4589, and this, an > EARLY Technics cassette, which I just picked up needing a belt, level knob > and oscillating on R Ch, which I hope to fix, but it plays. This would be a > '74 if not one of the very first tape decks, horizontal loading, flip open > door Dolby B AND an outboard Dolby FM decoder! The response is terrible > (today) at 13000 HZ with chrome and maybe 60 dB with Dolby on, but for 3.75 > it's historic. > > http://www.vintagetechnics.com/tapedecks/rs676us.htm > http://www.vintagetechnics.com/tapedecks.htm > "Mark Oppat" wrote in message > news:vOWdnYNhedBJrc3eRVn-jw@comcast.com... > > I dont live there, but in my opinion, PA is the BEST state for higher end > > radios! Seems the higher end and unique radio stuff on eBay is all from > > there. > > > > Mark Oppat > > > > > > "Hagstar" wrote in message > > news:11l02gph0a3avf5@corp.supernews.com... > > > I am thinking of taking a swing through *northeast* PA during a visit to > > > the NYC area at the end of the month. Can anyone recommend an out of the > > > way pocket of antique stores? Thanks! > > > > > > John H. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Article: 324075 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: Walton From Hell.... From: k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF (John Goller, k9uwa) References: <1129252439.310440.169480@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <11kv8acddt8ca4a@corp.supernews.com> <9bV3f.15745$fE5.9532@fed1read06> Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 22:46:01 GMT In article <9bV3f.15745$fE5.9532@fed1read06>, radioconnectionNO@cox.netSPAM says... > > > >The base didn't like quite right either, but I can't tell for sure. What >does your eyes say? > >A good job for Hagstar or eddie. > >Pete > > Its been spread out a bit and reglued.... lots of them have that problem.... Zenith put those little L brackets in the corners... but they still don't hold it well... lots of chassis for that box... It will be one major project if someone actually ever fixes that one... John k9uwa Article: 324076 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: RCA 15K or 16K or 14K WHo Wanted one? From: k9uwaREMOVE@THISarrl.netSTUFF (John Goller, k9uwa) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:00:42 GMT Someone in the group a while back was looking for one of the higher tube count RCA chassis... take a look at this one.... he says its a 16 tuber including the eye tube... John k9uwa Article: 324077 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: Randy or Sherry Guttery Subject: Re: Music for your radio station? References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:08:27 -0500 Larry wrote: > (Of course, I'm trying to figure out why > anyone would buy a PROPRIETARY Ipod or other MP3 player that requires > special software that sucks to load it, instead of an Archos or Digital > Mind that the computer treats like a USB hard drive with no restrictions.) You know, I'm not that so much surprised by what you don't know - as much as how loudly you proclaim it. iPods don't require any "special" software to be used as a USB disk. Once it's set up to do so - it appears on the Mac's or Window's desktop just like any other drive. While iTunes is optional - it isn't required for such use (though being free - why would you not want to use it? and -- you don't even need to own an iPod to enjoy most of iTunes capabilities- as several people I know (that don't own an iPod) use it as their main player on their desktop computer). In fact - iTunes is (in many people's opinion) some of the best software in it's class - it is an excellent playlist manager, format converter, library manager, jukebox player with a slick interface package - all for the shocking price of --- free. Oh yeah - it also makes purchasing music on line and managing protected content a breeze. Most people who don't like iTunes just don't like the fact it doesn't work with their cheap player. Tough. The new iPods (60gb in a hair over a 1/2 inch thick player) play music (including unrestricted MP3s - which can be dragged to the iPod on the desktop - no software required); Photos (jpgs, etc.) and Movies (up to around 150 hours of video). Yeah - they're junk - ask any of the (what is it now- 35 million?) people that own one. just my .02... Article: 324078 of rec.antiques.radio+phono Subject: Re: WLS and other tube questions From: Ron Ramirez References: <434feff3$0$14236$2c56edd9@news.cablerocket.com> Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:12:46 GMT http://www.wlshistory.com/ Great reading. The 1970s section brings back wonderful memories of my teenage years...living in western Kentucky, in the country, with a 100+ foot longwire antenna; any old radio that would bring in WLS in the daytime, I considered to be a very good radio. :-) -- Ron Ramirez - Evansville, Indiana Visit PhilcoRadio.com at http://www.philcoradio.com/ and the new Philco Phorum at http://philcoradio.com/phpBB2/index.php "Larry Fowkes" wrote in news:434feff3$0$14236$2c56edd9@news.cablerocket.com: > There > is a web site, sorry don't have the url handy, that goes into a great > deal of history about WLS, very interesting reading. Article: 324079 of rec.antiques.radio+phono From: "Steven Dinius_" <25@624.net> References: