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| "Jonny Quest" <nobody@noreply.com>: Jan 23 11:29PM -0500 Phone Circuit. a 3-way switch turns phone service on/off from 2 locations an LED indicates when the phone is on/off at the 2 locations a switch toggles phone service between the land line (local) and internet phone (long distance) N.C. contacts permit use of the phone when power outages disable the relay coil. http://www.stonetabernacle.com/PHONE_CIRCUIT.html |
| mogulah@hotmail.com: Jan 24 08:33AM -0800 On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 11:29:14 PM UTC-5, Jonny Quest wrote: > N.C. contacts permit use of the phone when power outages disable the relay > coil. > http://www.stonetabernacle.com/PHONE_CIRCUIT.html Right, but why pay for it? Because that's before Apple and PC computers started going wireless and/or high speed internet. Now you can do all that from a desktop, tablet or your wireless phone service (like with "Skype" and "MajicJack" and through most chat rooms. |
| Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk>: Jan 23 11:32PM In message <c651bc31-4fa7-4361-a5fc-5e651a271821@googlegroups.com>, Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> writes >The shafts of small AC motors in turntables and tape recorders and fans >sometimes jam tight because of this and a little WD40 gets them running >again in seconds. I had a PC power supply plain bearing fan which seized-up absolutely solid. After applying some WD40 (and, I believe, it needed the tip of a hot soldering iron applied to the end of the spindle) I eventually got it freed off. I treated it to a little more WD40, cleaned off the surplus, replaced the rubber bung etc - and it was still running happily 18 months later, when I decided to do another service. This time I gave it a couple of drops of 3-in-1. -- Ian |
| mogulah@hotmail.com: Jan 24 07:51AM -0800 On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 6:32:23 PM UTC-5, Ian Jackson wrote: > surplus, replaced the rubber bung etc - and it was still running happily > 18 months later, when I decided to do another service. This time I gave > it a couple of drops of 3-in-1. I've never heard of 3-in-1. Is it auto mechanics stuff or like liquid wrench? I might go and try a bottle. I keep losing the small pocket sized WD-40 mini-spray can. I'm not really focused on that right now, though. Right now, I'm bogged down trying to clean a toilet drain. The new weight loss stuff is clogging plumbing drains a lot quicker. I'm going to try to find a little piece, maybe just 10 feet or so - of snake line fish tape and swirl it with some laundry detergent. You know, the new 3x stuff. That should really clean the line out. Or is it time for muriatic acid. I don't know. We'll see. |
| mogulah@hotmail.com: Jan 24 07:57AM -0800 > detergent. You know, the new 3x stuff. That should really > clean the line out. Or is it time for muriatic acid. I don't > know. We'll see. The truth is, sometimes I can't get out from these video games. Ha ha. |
| Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk>: Jan 24 04:17PM In message <0153caba-4298-4f0c-984b-d9c8eb7bf763@googlegroups.com>, mogulah@hotmail.com writes >I've never heard of 3-in-1. Is it auto mechanics stuff or like liquid >wrench? I might go and try a bottle. I keep losing the small pocket >sized WD-40 mini-spray can. http://www.3inone.com/original/ Normally, one can will serve a household for a lifetime. However, it suffers from the same problem as your can of WD40, ie you can never find it when you need it - so you need to buy another. As a result, you end up with several cans of various vintages, distributed all over the house and garage. -- Ian |
| Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com>: Jan 23 03:53PM -0800 > Not that they have all that much money, but musicians are a little bit like (and I hate to use the term because I resemble it some) audiophools. They like the tube stuff, and even older solid state stuff. ** IME, musicians are even worse than audiophools. Audiphools listen only to recorded music with a bunch of equipment they know and can see, decided if they like the sound or not and blame the least likely piece of equipment for the latter outcome. Musicians listen to THEMSELVES playing via equipment they know, can see and fiddle with, decide if they like the sound and blame the equipment if they do not. > It's wierd. At flat response I can hear the difference between my Pioneer 850 and POhase Linear 400/2. At flat response there should beno difference. I have checked them with a 1,000 Hz square wave and they both reproduce that perfectly art flat response/tone off. the other day my buddy brough ove two CD players, well changers and one was a DVD changer. He heard a difference between them. ** All depends how you do the listening test. The usual "sample of music via A followed by the same sample via B" always produces an audible difference - even when A and B are the exact same item. Famous saying: " Human audio memory is short and treacherous " For a valid test, the listener must NOT be aware of which item ( brand, model etc) is in use at any point in time and must NOT have to remember what was previously heard. How the hell do you do that ?? It's simple - make it possible for the listener to instantly swap items WHILE music is playing, any time they chose. Also make sure there is no change in level when this happens. IOW use a remote operated relay to do the switching and give the listener the button. With a pair of items that one would reasonably expect ( based on performance testing ) to sound exactly the same - they now do. With a pair of amplifiers, this is easy - the relay ( DPCO type ) merely switches the speakers from one amp to the other. Long as the levels are matched and the outputs are in phase, this produces a seamless result - ie no audible click or interruption. I have done this test many times and the reaction from listeners is always the same: "Phil, the button is not working". So I switch one amp off and prove that it is. .... Phil |
| jurb6006@gmail.com: Jan 24 12:02AM -0800 >"So I switch one amp off and prove that it is. " The acid test. That means if they don't notice, they might be on acid. It's like they have an echoplex in their head. OH BY THE WAY ! That Watkins I kinda fixed, it says "Watkins Gould". It says "Made for Gould guitars..." and some shit. I knew it didn't say what you said it is supposed to say but now I remember what. Gould. Apparently in England there is/was a Gould guitar company and they had some of these made in their name. I replaced he tape in it and now it works. However the second head is defective. Push the middle bitton and it gets all kinds of noisy. Here's a guy who went nuts over one of these things : http://www.backfromthesixties.co.uk/watkins_copicat_mkii The actual print is down the page. The play heads are all in series and switches short them out. Damn, I would have spared the horses or whatever and got a whole nother 12AX7 for three bucks and had it alot better. This one has been fitted with an RCA plug for the output. I got a possible source for a head number two, which is defective. Real noisy and no sound, at least recorded sound. Haven't checke the DC resistance yet but I suspect I will find it open. I actually might have one. Ex bor-in-law statyed here fro a little bit and he left an old Bell And Howell. The head in that is a half track. So are these. I looked./ I looked when I first saw the thing, I wanted to see a full track head but nope, they did not get their feet that deep into it and just used half track heads. Nother thing, this unit looks a little different than the one on that page. It REALLY looks like the heads are just screwed down and that is that. Really, if the tape speed is fast enough the azimuth is not all that critical, and we are talking what, 1950 here ? In tis one it really looks like the heads just screw down and that'ss that. Next time in I will tear into that middle head that doesn't work. Hey, maybe I find a wire needs soldered. One thing about this job is now I know why they bought the thicker solder. I use it by the pound, pretty much. Over 80 % of my preapirs only involve solder and of course my time. Been there over a month and only ordered capacitors once. that should tellya something. Well one that it is not ful time and all that. I kinda wish it was. Whip me back into shape. I'm not that old. Well... Enough for now, people have a limit on how much of my bullshit they can take. Not that it was bullshit, I have no reason to lie. but it was bullshit because it is not about what the topic was. What was that ? I'll have to hit the bacvk button to find out...lol |
| jurb6006@gmail.com: Jan 24 12:03AM -0800 >"** IME, musicians are even worse than audiophools. " Are you familiar with the phrase "Cash Cow" ? |
| mogulah@hotmail.com: Jan 24 08:17AM -0800 On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 6:53:40 PM UTC-5, Phil Allison wrote: > Musicians listen to THEMSELVES playing via equipment they > know, can see and fiddle with, decide if they like the sound > and blame the equipment if they do not. Its pretty crazy. jurb...@gmail.com was saying that people don't want to read bullshit like this, but I disagree. A lot of this (from a 1960's music perspective) is not weird, but still ... its and odd perspective. You have a 15 year old kid about to enter college in an electrical engineering program. What's he (or she) thinking in a sniveling bratty manner? Probably: "what? you mean you MANUALLY play a guitar? a synthesizer? drums? You're joking right? me and my friends make use our phones to design an interface, CPU, memory, power processor and audio and other hardware all to fit in a microscopic compartment so small, you can't even see it. In some cases - even with a microscope. Because its so small, it will use less energy." Comparing stuff like that with more "traditional" music design and repair that you are used to just makes the whole thing look odd. But hey, it all works if you are comfy, right?. |
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