Train shipping ( was Re: VT fixums ) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Sep 2011

 On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 21:21:32 +0100 (BST), ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony
 Duell) wrote:
...
    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
 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...
 But even carrying it *to* the train wouldn't be particularly fun, with
 a cart or trolley I might consider it.
...

  work out a lot... 
 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! :-)
...
  The only 'working out' I do is how to fix
classic computers (etc),
 how to
 design bits of electronics, and so on.
  I used to have a BC-312M. I really regret having
got rid of it. That
 was
 a nice piece of equipment.Not quite as heavy as the AR88 but quite
 heavy
 enough to break your foot if you dropped it on one of them. The foot
 would be severely damaged but not the BC-312M... 
 And that's the way it should be. You foot will mend itself, the
 receiver
 will not

 Hmm, I'm not sure there would be a lot left of my foot to mend if a
 BC-312 fell on it from any height...
 /Jonas