Confused about kit instruction

IIRC, 1972. Back then Sears' employees were sure they knew better. I remember having trouble getting in the door without clerks jumping out from behind the merchandise to help you. Now I have trouble identifying and trapping one into helping.

I believe I've heard that recently

Human nature.

I've always thought they were better. My only improvements would be to their longevity or reproducibility. I was less than impressed with cassette singles because they occupied the same volume but didn't make use of all of it. Putting records onto tape allowed the user to customise his playlists. Songs on 45s and LPs could all be played without switching the player plus one doesn't have to hover near the player to change records. I suppose one can do all that with digital but I haven't any equipment to handle it except this machine. It seems so unnatural to have music coming out of a computer. ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE ...a 20th century mind...

Ha! Reminds me of the early '80s when my brother bought a Commodore 64 from Sears, and the saleslady was telling him it would run all his old Commodore flatware! Gotta love cross-departmental help.

Back from 1975 to 1979 (my between marriages batchelor years) our local top-40 would play the top 100 for the year previous around New Year's Day. I'd tape these on a Panasonic Open Reel and transfer the ones I liked later to cassette. I built a dubbing unit similar to a modern-day Go-Video (Go-Audio?) that had little interference between source and destination tapes, so little signal loss. Those tapes that I made are still enjoyable, the ones I still have (a bunch of them went to Baltimore with my son) The Open Reel worked up to a couple of years ago went the drive belt finally went. Its essentially a large rubber band, but because its "yesterday's technology", none of then repair shops carry replacements nor will they even attempt to try to find one for me. Aggravating because that unit had even better sound than the cassette decks and six years ago I sunck $100 into new heads that now have about thirty hours of use on them. Making your own mix - nothing new there at all!

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

----- Original Message ----- From: "The Old Timer" Newsgroups: rec.models.scale Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 8:19 AM Subject: Re: Confused about kit instruction

John, do you still have the belt? I still have boxes of belts from my stereo repair days. If you can send me the measurements of yours, I'll check my stash. I'd need total length, width, and thickness and whether or not it was stretched out.

Doug Wagner

Thanks! I'll check first thing Monday. I appreciate it.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

I've still got my Dad's tube caddy....hmmm my Daddy's caddy (if only it was a car) full of tv tubes and a tube tester to go with it! I'm hoping tube type tv's make a comeback the way tube audio stuff has :)

Doug Wagner

you may not be aware, but people collect tubes like coins. some of the real esoterics go for 1,000's of bucks. your

I hadn't thought much about it, but I'm not surprised. There's a lot of beautiful old radios out there, Atwater Kents et al and I'm sure there's a market for parts to keep 'em running. Televisions though are another story. I would be surprised (pleasently) to find there's a market for '60 or '70's vintage tv tubes.

Doug

every kind of tube is collected.

That pedestal style TV from the fifties (the tube is encapsulated by a gold "shroud" and the rest of the works are in the box below) is quite valuable. So are the resources and knowledge to keep it running. hth

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

I've seen that one, and it is a work of art worthy of whatever it takes to keep it running!

Doug

I really hated putting my old console TV out at the curb because of a dying picture tube. The thing had very nice cabinet woodwork and the ugly plastic replacement has no aesthetics to it, a'tall. My repairman had the tube in stock but had no tuner for the beastie since it was a '70s model. I wonder if the replacement will have as long a life. :[

Bill Banaszak, MFE

When my dad's TV went, I scored it and brought it home (it also had a nice turntable [WITH 78rpm!] and an AM/FM tuner. THese served me for a few years and when they started to go, I gutted the unit out and it became the basis for my spray booth. The doors seal reasonably tight and its big enough for all but the biggest models, with a 36"w x 24"d x 24"h interior. I lined the inside with styrofoam sheets for added sealing and have my paint racks mounted on the sides outside, rattlecans on one side and thinned brush paints on the other.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Good job of keepin' there! Got a fan/duct hooked up to it?

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

I cleaned out the family's old console when it "Went South" and converted the cabinet to a book case. Still sitting in the Library/office. Good woodwork is not to be wasted.

Bill Shuey

no, in fifty years we'll be mining landfills for a lot of very usefull stuff, starting with pets and going up the periodic chart.

I toyed with the idea of stuffing the replacement inside the cabinet after removing the innards but I had to move it out rather quickly. It's a shame that the policy now is to throw things out because they cost more to repair than to replace. Eventually we'll run out of landfill space.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

I was going to, but set it up in the garage, so I didn't bother. Since I've moved it to a postition by the garage door and always have that door open when I spray, it hasn't seemed necessary so far. I do have most of the stray parts for an exhaust duct set aside, but not yet hooked up.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger