Shite in Miniature II

[Remspoor]

 @bunglebusThat rivet does not look original.

You purchased a ringer. Did you not  carVertical it?😄

This is what it should look like. (Not my image)

Oh I never realised there was a Coal Utilisation Council. It lasted until 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Coal_Utilisation_Research_Association

[bunglebus]

New bits in BuMs

[Zie]

1 minute ago, bunglebus said:

New bits in BuMs

That's much better then my Bum. 

[bunglebus]

Asbo looks like a jumble sale as usual

However they did have a full new set of Fast N Furious premiums -  none made me do a buy though 

[RoadworkUK]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

I know what you mean. When I was a kid you could amass a decent collection for not a lot from Jumble Sales, car boots etc but now it is much more difficult as everyone is an antiques expert - in reality they know very little. I’m talking about the ones in Charity Shops which are crazy money, the wife chastises me when I bring up the crazy prices offered in these places as it’s a charity, but it doesn’t give them carte blanche to rip people off. 

Same is true in the world of retro electronics. A look on eBay or Marketplace for old hi-fi equipment seems to point to all the commonplace-but-good stuff – the heavily engineered Japanese silver boxes – having gone to the tip before anybody thought to preserve it, while endless crap from Argos is assigned insane values by the sort who think people will be clamouring to secure a Matsui midi system that needs new belts for its tape deck. 

Incidentally, on Saturday I visited all the charity shops that Colchester has to offer, and I concluded that much of their stock is only there because nobody could be bothered to throw it away. 

[bunglebus]

I secured an orange Kadett and a red Hot Wheels RS2000 if anyone wants them? 

[quicksilver]

Nobody commented on the humorous name on the yellow bus behind the DeLorean so here it is: Buster Skulenbach.

I think it's a great name for a school bus company but nobody seems to have ever used it in real life.

[bunglebus]

If I could find one Super Treasure Hunt it's this, the first for 2024

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

Same is true in the world of retro electronics. A look on eBay or Marketplace for old hi-fi equipment seems to point to all the commonplace-but-good stuff – the heavily engineered Japanese silver boxes – having gone to the tip before anybody thought to preserve it, while endless crap from Argos is assigned insane values by the sort who think people will be clamouring to secure a Matsui midi system that needs new belts for its tape deck. 

Incidentally, on Saturday I visited all the charity shops that Colchester has to offer, and I concluded that much of their stock is only there because nobody could be bothered to throw it away. 

Matsui... fucking hell they were ‘quality’ along with Alba and Goodmans 😂

[Datsuncog]

Don't forget Saisho.

👍

[egg]

My first walkman was Saisho secondhand from a mate, and I had an Alba alarm clock.

Although my 'music station' was a pure 70's tape and record combo that I was allowed to take upstairs when mum and dad upgraded to a Panasonic multi-disc changer in the early 90s.

[flat4alfa]

Saisho was the Dixons own-brand

Matsui was Currys

Both pretended to seem Japanese but majority had PCBs from Taiwan and components sourced from Malaysia, S Korea and Yugoslavia.  This all came out in court when Currys were fined for misleading advertising

Another hidden gem was the use of cheap Phillips components in the lower-end of Bang & Olufsen. 

Goodmans split in the 1980s. The 'hifi' arm went to Alba, so that's what you were getting.  The brand was bought by B&M, so why you see Goodmans today in their stores.  The other arm continued as a British speaker manufacturer that swallowed Tannoy

Seiko Japan created Alba in 1970s. However, things went downhill.  Argos have owned Bush and Alba brand names since 1980s

I think all that's right, going from memory! 

[bunglebus]

You can keep all that rubbish, I had a Schneider Newave!

[sierraman]

If you were really enthusiastic you’d supplement your Technics tape deck with a NAD amp. 

[bunglebus]

On my travels again, Sutton Coldfield this week. Got excited to find a Toymaster

Unfortunately they didn't have anything exciting, and it wasn't the tidiest despite only just having opened this morning 

Entertainer over the road....

Three M cases fresh in if anyone is looking for Chevettes, silver AMGs, Alfas, ID Buzz etc

Charity shop excitement 

[Split_Pin]

Those Readers Digest cars are one down from Days Gone. I've got a couple up in the loft somewhere or did have, they may be gone now, hopefully.

[bunglebus]

Hammertime.

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, sierraman said:

If you were really enthusiastic you’d supplement your Technics tape deck with a NAD amp. 

To me, in the 80s AIWA and Pioneer seemed the brands to look cool to school mates, it seemed only the well-off Dads had those.  Panasonic did a very good job trying to hide that Technics was their upper brand. 

My Dad's (silver in colour) National Panasonic one-box unit almost looked in-keeping with the times, but was poor after his 60s Garrard set into a piece of furniture. He built a slimline amp and a top-loading  tape deck to go with that from off-the-shelf Amstrad kits bought (I think) at Henry's Radio on Tottenham Court Road in the early 70s.  No ICs back then, just a soldering iron and the build manual and he was off..

Late-80s I was lucky to be given a double-tape Sharp portable with detachable speakers, with Phono input for the second-hand domestic direct drive Technics (both of which I still have today!)

NAD was plain, fitting the audiophile image they tried to project, with typically a Denon tape deck in black / very dark browns which were 1990s.  Usually matched with a Technics CD player stolen from Laskys on a Saturday.

Sanyo (Japan) swallowed Fisher (USA), then went off using Taiwan and HK production.  Schneider and Hinari were a European rebranding exercise in the 90s using Sanyo components and PCBs.  Amstrad had a hand-in there too.  Panasonic swallowed Sanyo.  

Kenwood swallowed Trio.  In the 1990s, Kenwood units in the fashionable black were every where in UK it seemed.  JVC later swallowed Kenwood so JVC 'home hifi' product branding was replaced.  JVC branding continued for car units.

Realistic was the house brand for Tandy after they swallowed Radio Shack

Proline was Comet's brand.  The less said about that the better.

Spinney(tronic) was Littlewood's brand

I think I'm in the wrong thread.

[sierraman]

I think NAD was aimed at perhaps the serious home listener, puts a really nice sound out. I had a Technics tape deck a while back, from a purely sensory point of view it felt really nicely made. I think my dad was a fan of Matsui, we had a Curry’s near us so we had a portable from them and a video recorder which at today’s prices seemed insanely expensive. We’re going off on a tangent here though I guess. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

Anyone want to see my dusty old Hi-Fi?

Purchased mostly in the mid '80's. Been moved around a few times and lived in 4 different counties.

The amp was dropped once along with the CD player. The amp survived but the cd player was knackered.

CD was replaced with a matching Sony Mini-Disc in the early '90's. It all still works and would make enough noise if I wanted to annoy the neighbours.

 

Now as they do one the one show, here's a nice old van model featuring a splendid old logo.

 

[flat4alfa]

 

Its beauty is beyond compare
No shining blocks of bullion
But ivory paint and grille of satin blue

Its smoke is like the death of spring
Its engine note a noisy din
But it cannot compete with you, Jolene

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolee-ah-eene
Please don't take my BRINKS MAT VAN

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolee-ah-eene
Please don't take it just because you ca-uh-aan

 

 

[flat4alfa]

19 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Anyone want to see my dusty old Hi-Fi?

Purchased mostly in the mid '80's. Been moved around a few times and lived in 4 different counties.

The amp was dropped once along with the CD player. The amp survived but the cd player was knackered.

CD was replaced with a matching Sony Mini-Disc in the early '90's. It all still works and would make enough noise if I wanted to annoy the neighbours.

That need to be put up on

 

[MiniMinorMk3]

10 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

That need to be put up on

 

Done.

[matt79]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Charity shop excitement  excrement 

FTFU

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Charity shite

EFA

Some years back, I was given that set by a well-meaning relation.  They must have been suckered by some marketing trick somewhere.

Anyhow, I put it on eBay, boxed as new ....and it sold!

[Noel Tidybeard]

project drive?

corgi tx1 taxi- launched with 2 opening doors, folding seat & slide out wheelchair ramp

now no opening features

[flat4alfa]

33 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Now as they do one the one show, here's a nice old van model featuring a splendid old logo.

Oxford Diecast in recent years did a Ford Thames 400E 1:43 with HMV livery.  They also put the dog 'Nipper' on the doors.  They sold out the whole run of them too.

Back in the 90s, Dinky (Matchbox era) did this 1948 Comma 8 CWT variation.  And Nipper!

The one to get is the Lledo Days Gone effort.  It's brill.

Sorry, I meant this Timpo Toys variation.  This is the one to get and comes in a few colours to seek out

Alex agrees

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Hammertime.

@bunglebus@Split_Pin

You're going to love this 6-page in-depth thread on those :

https://www.planetdiecast.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=83&id=30097&Itemid=0

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What you can see in the above picture, is TEN versions of the 1906 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost. They are all different in one way or another, especially the baseplates. They come from Hong Kong, Macau and China. They all have the same catalogue number

 

[Split_Pin]

#dontclickonthelink

[sierraman]

They look like they’ve come out of a cracker.