What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Supernaut]

Got sent to Grantown on Spey today. 8 hour day with all the driving on the clock, so ended up spending 5 hours driving there and back and only 3 hours on site including lunch.

Coming back via the Lecht in a 3.5t van was interesting.

[PhilA]

Got the day off so spent part of the morning pottering in the garage playing with this. It now charges at a happy 7.2 volts when you rev the tits off it so that's good.

Phil

[Supernaut]

5 hours ago, 320touring said:

An akshul professional photographer took a shot of this at the Tartan Tarmac meet on Sunday.

 

Looks ace!

 

The boy who does the phoaties for those meets likes the oddball stuff. We oblige

That's nice and all, but when I take a photo of something, I like to get the whole of that something into the shot.

[hairnet]

8 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

That's nice and all, but when I take a photo of something, I like to get the whole of that something into the shot.

It just looks like he was falling over

[320touring]

16 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

That's nice and all, but when I take a photo of something, I like to get the whole of that something into the shot.

[Jack Nicholson]"You cant handle the whole Toledo[/Jack Nicholson]

 

[paulplom]

I hope it's a joke!

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[Agila]

31 minutes ago, 320touring said:

[Jack Nicholson]"You cant handle the whole Toledo[/Jack Nicholson]

 

 

[scdan4]

[Supernaut]

2 hours ago, Agila said:

 

[Jenson Velcro]

1 hour ago, scdan4 said:

I do like this type of picture. It really messes with your head. 
Check out also the works of M C Escher

 

[Agila]

5 minutes ago, Jenson Velcro said:

I do like this type of picture. It really messes with your head. 
Check out also the works of M C Escher

 

Even worse when you realise the nuts are 10mm and you lost the socket a week ago.

[SiC]

On 2/24/2020 at 6:54 PM, jumpingjehovahs said:

 

I thought your windshield was cracked in that photo at first. 

[beko1987]

16 minutes ago, SiC said:

I thought your windshield was cracked in that photo at first. 

I did too! I even felt sadness for it. 

I DEMAND A REFUND

[vulgalour]

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/24449/rr-spotted-thread?page=486

That's magnificent.

[iainrcz]

Because the Mrs has been doing a lot of management cover at work it's fucked her tax contributions up and HMRC have sent numerous letters for some reason.

 

Now I know the ins and outs, but obviously being a piss taker I've been making out she's been dodging tax, she's even got a new nickname - Jimmy Carr.

 

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[PhilA]

My father brought this little transistor radio with him from the UK when he came visit last; it's been all over the world, has some old brochures from some defunct airline in the back (Fly TREK - Johannesburg) but over the years it's fallen silent. It used to be used in his Sprite, so the last time it was in regular use was maybe 1980. 

I taped up the battery holder and liberated some pops and crackles from the speaker from the volume dial and wave switches. Good sign there, the output stage is alive as well as the IF oscillator... Had a bit of a go at it with an alignment tool and managed to get a few local stations out of it. Needs a full rebuild but this is the radioshite version of "first start after years in a barn". Quite pleased with that really. It's also got the early NASA problem of "tin whiskers", where the germanium transistors are in little metal pots coated in pure tin to stop them rusting. However pure tin, left to its own devices starts growing tiny crystalline filaments from the surfaces and these cause short circuits if they grow far enough to touch the gubbins inside. Still, it'll live again. All the important bits still work.

Phil

 

Edit: Warmed up an oscilloscope that's not much younger than the radio last night to have a poke around inside the radio.

Started at the IF and mixer- got a ringing capacitance somewhere.

That has the effect of making the audio sound distorted, which it does. However, poking about I twisted the board slightly in the radio and it suddenly became much more loud and clear for a moment so there's definitely a broken trace or dry solder joint somewhere on it. I'll have to pull the board and check. Already on the way to being repaired.

 

[Wack]

Tis true

 

[LightBulbFun]

12 hours ago, PhilA said:

 

My father brought this little transistor radio with him from the UK when he came visit last; it's been all over the world, has some old brochures from some defunct airline in the back (Fly TREK - Johannesburg) but over the years it's fallen silent. It used to be used in his Sprite, so the last time it was in regular use was maybe 1980. 

I taped up the battery holder and liberated some pops and crackles from the speaker from the volume dial and wave switches. Good sign there, the output stage is alive as well as the IF oscillator... Had a bit of a go at it with an alignment tool and managed to get a few local stations out of it. Needs a full rebuild but this is the radioshite version of "first start after years in a barn". Quite pleased with that really. It's also got the early NASA problem of "tin whiskers", where the germanium transistors are in little metal pots coated in pure tin to stop them rusting. However pure tin, left to its own devices starts growing tiny crystalline filaments from the surfaces and these cause short circuits if they grow far enough to touch the gubbins inside. Still, it'll live again. All the important bits still work.

Phil

needs more vacuum tubes and a 90V B+ battery made out of pure unobtanium

(still very cool to see tho )

[PhilA]

8 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

needs more vacuum tubes and a 90V B+ battery made out of pure unobtanium

(still very cool to see tho )

Nah, nothing wrong with an early 60's transistor set- particularly if you figure that was made by the company that became Marantz.

[xtriple]

I always loved the smell of the inside of old radios, they had an odd but strangely alluring odour. Maybe it's just me and I really am weird? Also 'cap-guns' wonderful pong  

[cobblers]

Turns out a gearbox off a lorry is too much for my trolley ?

[rainagain]

Does a trolley really need that many gears? 

[cobblers]

Not anymore, no

[myglaren]

[mitsisigma01]

Look at the bumpers on that! 

[jumpingjehovahs]

This has had me chuckling away to myself all morning. Does anyone know what the cars are at 0:31?

 

 

[mitsisigma01]

Mazda rx7 rotary

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]

[808 Estate]