Today arrival: lots of capacitors. Special capacitors from the early 70's, made by Siemens.
What's so special about them?
- they are Styroflex types
- they are precision ones (1% and 2% tolerance)
- they are shielded
Never saw before shielded Styroflex capacitors. Probably that's why I've bought them.
Here are some pictures:
seven values, all 63V DC
detailed view of one with date code 11 71. They are all from that time (1971 - 1973)
Siemens label of one of them
If you are interested in getting one or two per value (from the 8870pF ones I have only nine) drop me a PM.
I just spend the last half an hour trying not to buy a DM41X so no relaxing going on
The rivets often end up spinning if you try drilling them out, the plastic inlet remains will probably help this happen, I usually resort to the Dremel & grind the tops off the rivets, then push them out.
DavidI can confirm that the rivets are very likely to just spin as part of the steel mandrel is retained in the process of riveting. I had this issue when I replaced my car speaker recently and the only solution was to grind the head off and push them through.
If, if, you can get to the back of them you can sometimes stop them spinning by clamping the back of the rivet with Mole grips or something similar.
The ubiquitous Mole grip, in case it goes by another name in foreign parts:
"Mole grip"?
did you make that up?
them there are properly called "vise grips".
and please don't start that vise vs vice bullshit again!
i hereby direct and decree that this be the last and final word on the subject.
crap day at work.
Wanted to bring my music streamer online.
It did not effing boot.
The bloody cmos battery was effing dead.
And to add insult to injury, this is one dangling off a molex connector. Nope, I do not stock spares.
Waiting for the effing thing to come in so that I can at least enjoy a wee bit of Ludwig von when drinking my Moloko Plus ...
...The ubiquitous Mole grip, in case it goes by another name in foreign parts:
"Mole grip"? did you make that up? them there are properly called "vise grips". and please don't start that vise vs vice bullshit again!
i hereby direct and decree that this be the last and final word on the subject.
The name "Mole grip" is because that company was the main manufacturer of such devices in the UK, back in the day, so it has the same sort of origin as "hoovering" for using a vacuum cleaner...
In the garage while I'm working I have a 8-year-old Kindle Fire/Prime Music app & a 10-year-old iHome BT speaker... It just works. Put Kindle to sleep, speaker goes to sleep. Start playing music and the Kindle reconnects, speaker wakes up in less than a second.
Is there room for small end cutters?
I think there might be, especially fruitfully so if I can get rid of the old plastic frame first.
I just spend the last half an hour trying not to buy a DM41X so no relaxing going on
The hardware is the same between DM41X and DM42, only the printed stuff on the button/case is different.
If you have a DM42 you can flash a DM41X image and viceversa.
According to Youtube the DM41X is slower than the DM42, but offer more program capabilities.
You will end up with the WP43S or C43 anyway take what you can find cheaper between DM42 and DM41X .
Nice shots, did you get stung by the DSLR bug?
Today arrival: lots of capacitors. Special capacitors from the early 70's, made by Siemens.
What's so special about them?
- they are Styroflex types
- they are precision ones (1% and 2% tolerance)
- they are shielded
Never saw before shielded Styroflex capacitors. Probably that's why I've bought them.
Here are some pictures:
seven values, all 63V DC
detailed view of one with date code 11 71. They are all from that time (1971 - 1973)
Siemens label of one of them
If you are interested in getting one or two per value (from the 8870pF ones I have only nine) drop me a PM.Oh just great, that was YOU! Hissss..
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Wanted to bring my music streamer online.
...... In the garage while I'm working I have a 8-year-old Kindle Fire/Prime Music app & a 10-year-old iHome BT speaker...
Today arrival: lots of capacitors. Special capacitors from the early 70's, made by Siemens.
What's so special about them?
- they are Styroflex types
- they are precision ones (1% and 2% tolerance)
- they are shielded
Never saw before shielded Styroflex capacitors. Probably that's why I've bought them.
Here are some pictures:
seven values, all 63V DC
detailed view of one with date code 11 71. They are all from that time (1971 - 1973)
Siemens label of one of them
If you are interested in getting one or two per value (from the 8870pF ones I have only nine) drop me a PM.
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Wanted to bring my music streamer online.
...... In the garage while I'm working I have a 8-year-old Kindle Fire/Prime Music app & a 10-year-old iHome BT speaker...Advantage studio apartement: The main hifi of the living room is available in the workshop too.
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2) " Do you buy component professionnaly, or personnaly".
Well I buy for myself of course...
3) " Oh I see, well we are sorry then, but we are not insterested in your opinion, end of survey, have a good day " .
Well you already knew who I was, you knew well I was a hobbyist, so why did you even bother wasting my time ?!
... Got out my Agilent 53310A MDA to play around
... Found the inputs were not A-B-C-ext as I expected, but were ext-A-B-C.
In my defence, this is what isn't visible...
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Wanted to bring my music streamer online.
...... In the garage while I'm working I have a 8-year-old Kindle Fire/Prime Music app & a 10-year-old iHome BT speaker...Advantage studio apartement: The main hifi of the living room is available in the workshop too.I have loads of music on a NAS that can be accessed via any PC in the house or a audio streamer in the lounge and played via the surround system. I also have my own music on my PC, plus of course I have 2 Alexa speakers that connect to almost any radio station in the UK and Amazon Prime music library and also 2 very lovely high quality BT stereo speaker systems that any BT device can be linked to, these are portable as long as I have mains power to drive them.
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Wanted to bring my music streamer online.
...... In the garage while I'm working I have a 8-year-old Kindle Fire/Prime Music app & a 10-year-old iHome BT speaker...Advantage studio apartement: The main hifi of the living room is available in the workshop too.I have loads of music on a NAS that can be accessed via any PC in the house or a audio streamer in the lounge and played via the surround system. I also have my own music on my PC, plus of course I have 2 Alexa speakers that connect to almost any radio station in the UK and Amazon Prime music library and also 2 very lovely high quality BT stereo speaker systems that any BT device can be linked to, these are portable as long as I have mains power to drive them.
Yea. But when sound quality matters beside music availability, it would be - eh ... expensive - to generate the sound quality of my main room a second time somewhere else.
My sound system in my workshop is THX certified 5.1 speakers and sounds great. I used to have a proper Hi-Fi system in the lounge but SWMBO hated it, to big etc, she was perfectly happy listening to music via Youtube on her iPads built-in crappy speakers
So as I spend most of my time in the workshop (box room really), I decided to appease here and got rid of the Hi-Fi and make do with the other sound systems I have in the name of harmony and peace to all.
Reason #25678 why I live alone. Screw that. Turn it up!