Train shipping ( was Re: VT fixums )

7 Sep 2011

...
     An AR88 (RCA
communcations receiver)  You *carried* an AR88 on a train??? They weigh, what, 45
kgs? You 
 must 
 Well, I didn't hold it for the netire journey, if that's what you 
 mean.
 It sat on the luggage rack between Bristol and London...  
  I hope not the overhead rack? I certainly wouldn't like to take an  
No, fortuanely not. It was one of those '125' trains, with the luggage 
racks at the ends of the carriages. it went there, on a shelf of a 
suitable height.

...
   AR-88 down from an overhead luggage rack, let alone
putting it up there, 
  and certainly not having it fall out if something happened... Brrr... 
Knowing the cosntruction of modern trains, an AR88 would prboably go 
straight through the flooe :-)

...
   I am insulted!
I have spent my entire life avoiding exercise, and I 
 don't
 intend changing that. I have never done any uncnessary exercise.

  No offence meant! :-) 
Actually, I assuemd you'd seen at last one photo of me on the web (thre's 
one on the HPCC wrbsite in last year's confernce photos [1]), which 
should indicate that I am truely a high mass hobbyist :-)

[]1 Said photo also shows an HP9836CU lin lots of bits.

-tony

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Train shipping ( was Re: VT fixums )