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#14281 Re: Nothing In Particular

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shane wrote: Tue May 17, 2022 11:45 am Just for Nick dS..

https://www.spactecular.com/products/gl ... 8qeDIHWJck
Hah! Thanks for that. They've obviously made a HUGE cockup - just a few USD for something that should be several 100 USD.

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Thought you’d like it. It’s so good that there’s still room for complete madness in the world.
The world looks so different after learning science. For example, trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burned, they go back to air, and in their flaming heat is released the flaming heat of the Sun which was bound in to convert air into tree.
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#14283 Re: Nothing In Particular

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How nice it is to decide to do absolutely nothing now and then. There is plenty I could be doing, but somehow that makes doing nothing more sweet.

I've had time soaking up the sun outside, trying to soften my tan lines and topping up vitamin D. :lol:

Watching planes go by (busy this afternoon) and watching gliders (from the old Ridgewell airfield on the village edge) swirling overhead gaining height on thermals.
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Watch out for any vultures. They may be attracted by the smell of burning flesh.
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#14285 Re: Nothing In Particular

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pre65 wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 2:00 pm How nice it is to decide to do absolutely nothing now and then. There is plenty I could be doing, but somehow that makes doing nothing more sweet.

I've had time soaking up the sun outside, trying to soften my tan lines and topping up vitamin D. :lol:

Watching planes go by (busy this afternoon) and watching gliders (from the old Ridgewell airfield on the village edge) swirling overhead gaining height on thermals.
I got a go in a glider when I was a teen for having spent a full day catching gliders wings at RAF Odiham. They allowed me in because my Dad was Royal Navy, you could get in if you were from military family.

but actually it just feels like you are a coat hanger sitting still in the sky. Anyway I’m glad to have had the experience. My boarding school was a half hour walk from RAF odiham along a green lane.. They hovered a Harrier over our playing fields one days, I was in the RAF section of ccf. We got to fire 303’s and a Bren Gun and had a glider but it had air breaks on so we couldn’t hedge hop. I managed to get it into a field though. Was banned from watching the next film show for that!

My sisters boyfriend was a fighter pilot soon after and when I went to Hull Uni he did an illegal victory roll feet off my student house, oops. As luck would have it we were all sunbathing out the back and so by pure chance we saw it. I knew it was him. Flight Leftenant John Gill. He was with that intelligence Captain Nairak when the RA took him into the car park and tortured him to death. John said it was horrible hearing his screams. For some strange reason they left John.
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#14286 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Nice to read your reminiscences' Paul. :)

I've gone mad and got a set of four insert type lathe tools. A boring bar, LH tool, RH tool and a straight tool. They came with 10 inserts.

Now, next time I do a lathe job I should get a better finish and more accuracy.

Most of my existing tools are HSS and not ground very well. :(

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#14287 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Im not altogether fussed with insert tooling, its abit hit and miss depending on the insert profile. I have some inserts for the boring bar that cut really nicely and give a really nice surface finish that are diamond shaped ones with a 50 degree angle, and normal triangular inserts for the o/d tooling that are 60 degree angle triangles that dont give the best surface finish. My hss stuff gives a better finish.
My inserts need a deep ish cut to give a good finish.

Perhaps its me being inept with them though
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Ant wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 7:36 pm
Perhaps its me being inept with them though
Well Ant, I've not had time to try mine yet, so I need to have a go and see how I get on with them.

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#14289 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Found this quite interesting

What Hi-Fi?: The ugly truth behind hi-fi's growing infatuation with nostalgia.
https://www.whathifi.com/features/the-u ... -nostalgia

I dont follow any websites or read any magazines or anything so im not even remotely up on the trends in the industry, quite frankly i have no reason to spend what i havent got on new kit. My obsessive fascination with vinyl, and some machine tools mean i just make something when i get that itch. And evey time i do look in a magazine i end up thinking 'how much!?'.
So i wasnt aware that this was a thing.
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Ha ! The ugly truth, indeed.
Seems like someone needed to get some copy out this month.
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#14291 Re: Nothing In Particular

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I dont quite get what he is moaning about, sure he wants the industry to look forward not back, but what is forward? People stream and use hi res digital files which it could be said have superceded other physical formats, but an amp is an amp is an amp, theres either ss or valve or whatever, so where is the next step? A speaker is a speaker is a speaker, the inherent technology hasnt changed in half a century. Materials technology and cfd modeling means that drive units and enlosures can be modelled virtually and accurately, but its still a magnet, a coil and some sort of moving membrane, or a stat.
Some people still like to have something tactile to hold in their hands in terms of source media, records are a pain in the arse, but you cant hold a hi res file in your hand and admire the sleeve art.
The industry at large will always go in the direction where the money is, if the chap has been reviewing for 20 years surely that is obvious
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Oh No !
Bowie's Diamond Dogs future scenario is coming true :

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/hom ... 52beff663a
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#14293 Re: Nothing In Particular

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Oh dear oh dear !

I tripped on a speaker cable and knocked my 55" TV off it's stand. :shock:

The metal case is distorted, and there's a thick line on the screen from top to bottom about a third of the way across.

BUM.

I'll check my household insurance policy if I can find it.

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Richer Sounds tele ordering has closed for the day now, so I'll wait till tomorrow.

I fancy a Panasonic TX58JX800B if they still have any at £299:00

Not worth claiming on house insurance as the excess is £250:00

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#14295 Re: Nothing In Particular

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55 inch so cheap . I think it’s time for a new tele .
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