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Post by peterboat on Sept 27, 2016 18:46:26 GMT
Anyway, I shall be a bit less noisy this week here - but much more noisy waving the chainsaw around! The forest around the bus garage in Kannus where I work is getting tidied up, and I seem to be the only one with a chainsaw. Nobody else wants the trees that are being cut down so I'm snaffling them for firewood. Started Saturday and this evening after work got the third trailer-load ready. There's 5 years' worth of firewood to be had - just time and petrol required (and chainsaw oil). Still, I hate sharpening chains, it's a bit like ironing shirts, just dreary. I could do with a load of wood as well but I only burn hardwood or anthracite so what are you chopping up foxy?
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Post by smileypete on Sept 27, 2016 20:50:51 GMT
Maplins started in Barnsley if I remember rightly used to be good I have used them for all sorts of crap but they arnt cheap except for the 2 camper aerials I bought from them Remember the old catalogues with sci fi artwork on them? They only had a few shops in the country back then so I'd have to trek to Hammersmith, but the shop was free of the piles of tat they have now, and the staff were usually pasty faced youths with thick glasses but they really know their stuff. Back then no internet and Tottenham Court Road was the mecca for a bargain stereo, haggled over with an asian gentleman with his calculator in hand.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 27, 2016 22:30:52 GMT
Tottenham Court Rd and Lisle Street........ when I had saved up enough money used to go there and come back laden with all sorts of ex-military electronics. bought my HRO 500 there and my 1154/1155 ........ guaranteed to annoy all the neighbours by wiping out there telly picture ......... CQ CQ CQ de G3UTB G3UTB G3UTB AR K
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 28, 2016 4:19:27 GMT
Nearly all birch. We have cut pine, plane & alder in Witchy's forest in Kaustinen, but these trees around the garage are nearly all birch. Dead easy to cut to size and slide into the trailer.
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Post by Saltysplash on Sept 28, 2016 19:49:36 GMT
Maplins in Slough must be the exception, The staff there are quite good especially when it comes to computer stuff, and I'd rather go there than Pissy World
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Post by loafer on Oct 2, 2016 20:12:49 GMT
Tottenham Court Rd and Lisle Street........ when I had saved up enough money used to go there and come back laden with all sorts of ex-military electronics. bought my HRO 500 there and my 1154/1155 ........ guaranteed to annoy all the neighbours by wiping out there telly picture ......... CQ CQ CQ de G3UTB G3UTB G3UTB AR K Was the 1154/1155 that huge transmitter-receiver set with brightly coloured dials for the hard of, er, knowing which dial to turn?
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Post by JohnV on Oct 2, 2016 21:02:41 GMT
Tottenham Court Rd and Lisle Street........ when I had saved up enough money used to go there and come back laden with all sorts of ex-military electronics. bought my HRO 500 there and my 1154/1155 ........ guaranteed to annoy all the neighbours by wiping out there telly picture ......... CQ CQ CQ de G3UTB G3UTB G3UTB AR K Was the 1154/1155 that huge transmitter-receiver set with brightly coloured dials for the hard of, er, knowing which dial to turn? Yeah, that was the one !!! Used to fit them in the Lancaster ! Those brightly coloured knobs were very clever. you could pre set them with those inset screws so that you could have "click stop" positions for tuning to the "net" frequencies. Identical knobs were still in use on "Ocean span" transmitters that Marconi Marine were still building 20 odd years after the end of the war !!!
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Post by loafer on Oct 3, 2016 10:06:05 GMT
Was the 1154/1155 that huge transmitter-receiver set with brightly coloured dials for the hard of, er, knowing which dial to turn? Yeah, that was the one !!! Used to fit them in the Lancaster ! Those brightly coloured knobs were very clever. you could pre set them with those inset screws so that you could have "click stop" positions for tuning to the "net" frequencies. Identical knobs were still in use on "Ocean span" transmitters that Marconi Marine were still building 20 odd years after the end of the war !!! There was a functioning pair in my Space Cadet unit when I was a sprog. Still remember being totally befuddled by it!
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Post by JohnV on Oct 3, 2016 11:24:39 GMT
Yeah, that was the one !!! Used to fit them in the Lancaster ! Those brightly coloured knobs were very clever. you could pre set them with those inset screws so that you could have "click stop" positions for tuning to the "net" frequencies. Identical knobs were still in use on "Ocean span" transmitters that Marconi Marine were still building 20 odd years after the end of the war !!! There was a functioning pair in my Space Cadet unit when I was a sprog. Still remember being totally befuddled by it! Yeah, they were built in the days when a radio op actually had to understand how radios worked. Gawd alone knows how aircrew used to use them, with the training time they used to get. The marine radio officers ticket used to take two years full time or two and a half if you took the radar endorsement and it was a tough course with a high failure rate
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Post by loafer on Oct 3, 2016 19:15:18 GMT
There was a functioning pair in my Space Cadet unit when I was a sprog. Still remember being totally befuddled by it! Yeah, they were built in the days when a radio op actually had to understand how radios worked. Gawd alone knows how aircrew used to use them, with the training time they used to get. The marine radio officers ticket used to take two years full time or two and a half if you took the radar endorsement and it was a tough course with a high failure rate I would have thought that the Lanc, and similar 1154-equipped aircraft, would have had a chap to sort that out. The front seaters would never have had the spare capacity to remember which coloured knob to twiddle. Oops - did I just say that? Is it racist to say 'coloured knob'?
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