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by Exile47
Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:11 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: LED display repair
Replies: 2
Views: 1509

Re: LED display repair

Still looking for parts for my Sony CDP-CX350. Only parts from this model will do. The CDP-CX355 is externally identical but the components inside are different. It is Sony part #A-4724-546-A I am looking for a S/H VFD (vacuum fluorescent) display unit or a complete player as a parts donor. There se...
by Exile47
Thu Dec 09, 2021 6:01 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: LED display repair
Replies: 2
Views: 1509

LED display repair

I can't find any other specific place to post this so here goes. I am using a pair of Sony CD changers to house my collection. CDP-CX350 or Mega Storage as they are sometimes called. Bought them both quite cheap just before CDs became fashionable again. Never any problem after I replaced the drive b...
by Exile47
Thu Feb 11, 2021 1:32 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Anti Chinese
Replies: 60
Views: 24489

Re: Anti Chinese

Interesting to read how this thread seems to revolve around the thin end of technology. I have been watching a long-running series on the box called "Salvage Hunters". This bod drives all over the country buying absolutely any kind of weird and wonderful stuff that he sells on at a huge pr...
by Exile47
Sat Dec 05, 2020 1:30 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Resto-mod cars.
Replies: 32
Views: 17122

Re: Resto-mod cars.

Agreed.
Retaining plenty of examples of our automotive history will be come even more important once we are forced to drive an electric clone on our way to having no private transport at all.
Until then................ turn up the volume.
by Exile47
Sat Dec 05, 2020 11:46 am
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Resto-mod cars.
Replies: 32
Views: 17122

Re: Resto-mod cars.

Yes, but - that looks like a hot rod, not a restomod. Maybe we need to clearly define "restomod". My view, which could easily be wrong , is a car of any age that has had the mechanicals updated to more modern standards while leaving the external appearance stock. The only things that are ...
by Exile47
Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:35 pm
Forum: Assorted Stuff
Topic: Resto-mod cars.
Replies: 32
Views: 17122

Re: Resto-mod cars.

I'm perfectly happy with the RestoMod concept. As a dyed in the wool hotrodder all my life I see it as a positive thing. If a car is seriously rare then I do see the point in trying to preserve it in as close to factory original condition as possible. But in order to keep it that way as a historic e...