Really great. For me. I've been cleaning out the store-room (aka: The garage). Look at what I found: My very first power transistor (if you don't count the AC128 that came with my Philips Electronic Engineer kit). The mighty 2N301. It was given to me by the brother of a mate (who probably pinched it from PMG, where he worked) sometime around 1965. I used it in a number of projects and I just checked it on the meter. Damned thing still works. HFE - 77. Leakage 1.8ma. Anyway, I'm about 1/3rd of the way through the cleanup. Roll on next weekend. I wonder what treasures I will find. I did find some honkin' big AlNiCo magnets, salvaged from a monster computer hard drive and some others from a Japanese 1960s vintage medical chart recorder. I was hopeful that AlNiCo might be worth something. The last two from a Winchester drive. HUGE throw. Around 80mm. Might make a good subwoofer motor.

================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Remember them well, every 60s pushbutton car radio had one - operating in class A with a choke load and a 16 ohm speaker. Usually mounted on a black anodised Al heatsink with no insulators. One I worked on had special 12V supply valves in the RF stages. ..... Phil

How great is lockdown?

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~misfit~ 5 years ago

Nick Mason's got quite a few collectable cars. His dad raced a big Bently (which Nick still has I believe) so it's in his blood.

Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM" David Melville This is not an email and hasn't been checked for viruses by any half-arsed self-promoting software.

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keithr0 5 years ago

I hear that the Army is less than pleased with their Mercedes 4WDs. The old Land Rovers could be fixed in the field with a set of spanners and a hammer, the Mercs have to be towed back to base, and are bastards to fix with all the electronics.

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keithr0 5 years ago

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Xeno 5 years ago

Yeah, I wondered how that would turn out in the end. It's not like the Australian Army had much choice in the matter. The old Defenders dated from the early Defender days with the youngest being more than a decade old. The Benz has more capabilities but, as you say, the electronic will be problematical, especially so when they age.

Xeno Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing. (with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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Clocky 5 years ago

The Mercedes X class is just a tarted up Nissan NP300. So yeah, I can see that being a problem.

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