29 Dec
2004
29 Dec
'04
2:53 a.m.
It always makes me laugh when I see one group of lunatics say all the OTHER
groups are lunatics. :)
Whether we collect computers, radios, typewriters, televisions, telegraphs
keys, telephones, mathematical tools, hand tools, or whatever -- we're all
basically doing the same thing.
--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
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I don't recall where I read it now...
(somewhere in a newsgroup) but
it seems to be fueled by Japanese vintage (read tube) stereo collectors.
The original service and repair manuals spec that particular kind of
solder and there seems to be a belief that the modern equivalent is not
mixed (alloyed, whatever) correctly. So if you pay big bucks for a
tube stereo but it is repaired with the "wrong" solder, you still don't
get the "magic" sound you're looking for, hence you'll pay several
hundred bucks for an old spool of solder. Apparently, they'll even have
working units that appear to contain "incorrect" solder disassembled
all of the "bad" solder removed and then reassembled with the
"right"
stuff.
Wow, these people need to spend less on their music and more on their
drugs.
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