26 Nov
1999
26 Nov
'99
4:09 p.m.
as for myself, beer cans and antique outboard motors 1960 and earlier.
In a message dated 11/26/99 4:21:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
jim(a)calico.litterbox.com writes:
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Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
Um... Swords. And Anime Cels. Old PCs seem to follow
me home, but they
either
get taken apart and recombined into useful machines or thrown out, so I
wouldn't
call them a collection.
various
> I am just wondering what some of us collect
that we consider the
screwiest
> > ourselves. For example, for reasons I can't fathom I have started
> > collecting Apple logo AC power cords, and have a couple dozen of
styles now.
27 Nov
27 Nov
1 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
as for myself, beer cans and antique outboard motors
1960 and earlier.
I collect old Records and 8 track tapes I activly listen to both
formats.
A pearl of wisdom from the y2K newsgroups:
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Y2K appears to be the Baby Boomers mid-life crisis, and it has the
potential to be a dandy.
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B'ichela
6:42 a.m.
My other hobby is beer cans (about 5k of them my wife keeps reminding me)
and beer can openers (church keys, etc). Those are probably not that screwy,
but my last one might be - I also collect the beer can/bottle charts that
breweries keep in their QA labs. These are the large charts that show how to
read all the "secret" info on the can/bottles (date codes, brewery location,
production line, etc.).
Jay West
9:21 a.m.
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, B'ichela wrote:
You've never lived until you're heard 2112
on LP :) I have a modest record
collection, too.... all of them older than I am.. :)
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
Ok, *now* I'm scared. ;) as for myself, beer cans and antique outboard
motors 1960 and earlier.
I collect old Records and 8 track tapes I activly listen to both
formats.
-Dave McGuire
Kevin
10:28 a.m.
Vacuum tubes. Well, I don't actually collect them; I use them for
audio (both creating music as well as reproducing it). Dunno,
there's something about a device with a KV or so across it and
the failure modes can be *truly* spectacular :-)
Cheers,
Chris
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Chris Kennedy
chris(a)mainecoon.com
http://www.mainecoon.com
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10:39 a.m.
[vacuum tube failures can be spectacular]
Hrm. In my experience they just went out like bad light bulbs.
But then again, all I've ever seen was radio tubes.
I DID get to see a modern radio-transmitting tube about 3 weeks ago. It was the size of a
lunch box. It wasn't a final tube though - I was told the AM final
tubes are about the size of my head. It had a metal jacket so you couldn't
see inside it, but it weighed a hefty amount. It went to some unknown FM
broadcast transmitter.
(One of our customers is a company that owns a few radio stations.)
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10:58 a.m.
"Daniel A. Seagraves" wrote:
[vacuum tube failures can be spectacular]
Hrm. In my experience they just went out like bad light bulbs.
But then again, all I've ever seen was radio tubes.
Russian quality control still isn't what it might be; I've had maybe
10% of the 6C33Bs I've used internally short within 3 or 4 hours
of initial use. Yeah, I was running them near their limits (in a OTL
design) but I *was* still within those limits. It's pretty spectacular
when they arc over, even with the relatively low voltages used in
an OTL design :-)
A buddy brought me his amp last week complaining that it started to
sound awful a few hours after he rebiased it to "hot up the sound".
Found a nifty hole burned clear through the plate on one of his
EL34s :-)
I DID get to see a modern radio-transmitting tube
about 3 weeks ago. It was the size of a lunch box.
It wasn't a final tube though - I was told the AM final
tubes are about the size of my head. It had a metal jacket so you couldn't
see inside it, but it weighed a hefty amount. It went to some unknown FM
broadcast transmitter.
They tend to be ceramic or metal/ceramic shells and are designed to be
remanufactured. Most of the smaller ones are designed to be cooled
with forced air, although I believe they still make some which use
liquid cooling. Eimac (www.eimac.com) make such stuff; the photo archives can
be both amazing and frightening...
Cheers,
Chris
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Chris Kennedy
chris(a)mainecoon.com
http://www.mainecoon.com
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
5:29 p.m.
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
[vacuum tube failures can be spectacular]
I DID get to see a modern radio-transmitting tube about 3 weeks ago. It was the size of
a lunch box. It wasn't a final tube though - I was told the AM final
tubes are about the size of my head. It had a metal jacket so you couldn't
see inside it, but it weighed a hefty amount. It went to some unknown FM
broadcast transmitter.
Biggest one I've seen was about 2 dm. in diametre and
about 4 dm. tall.
100K.W. (Don't get too close :)
It actually looked like a small lighthouse.. ribbed metal at the bottom
with a glass section at the top. Probably lighed up like one, too.
Kevin
28 Nov
28 Nov
3:29 p.m.
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, LordTyran wrote:
You've never lived until you're heard 2112
on LP :) I have a modest record
collection, too.... all of them older than I am.. :)
I have indeed heard 2112 on LP. Glorious! Still have it. :)
Nothing to play it on, though. :-/
-Dave McGuire
I collect old Records and 8 track tapes I activly
listen to both
formats.
Ok, *now* I'm scared. ;) 
27 Nov
27 Nov
10:26 a.m.
I've got a buddy who collects all things 70's, especially music (thousands
of LP's, at least a few hundred 8-tracks). Let me tell you, there's
nothing like streaking around San Francisco at 70mph in a white 77
Continental (yes, opera windows) while listening to Dark Side of The Moon
on Quad-8...
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, B'ichela wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
Ok, *now* I'm scared. ;)
-Dave McGuire
as for myself, beer cans and antique outboard
motors 1960 and earlier.
I collect old Records and 8 track tapes I activly listen to both
formats.
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