I love the ice rink tiles
Waiting in for my new sofa to be delivered, well pleased with it, Curtis less so as itās leather. Old sofa is now out the front waiting for the Council to collect it on 30th, I am now more pikey.
Needs more rusty white goods, and a car on bricks.
Currently glad Trump didnāt to respond to this SMS message. I suspect supper might have been burnt if he had. 
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Just put a āFor Saleā sign on it, some fucker will have it away in a couple of hours, you wonāt have to wait for collection.
ps I did it with an old freezer, worked a treat.
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On a genteel Origami ride in Nottingham. Some of the 24 folding bikes on the ride, taken outside the lunchtime pub, which has 2 narrowboats moored in the bar.
and my Downtube:
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went to a brilliant exhibition on punjabi craftwork at coventry museum , really worth a visit . listened to the ta,us which you may recall is the name of cd`s speakers but i did not know it was one of these instruments
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also popped in to frank harvey hi fi to see their 3 floors of beautiful hifi , what a friendly bunch they are and real treasure trove
I got rid of a massive (working) 32" CRT TV doing just that. Left it at the end of the drive with a sign saying, free take me away. it was picked up within the hour. Saved me driving it to the tip for recycling
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We do it with loads of things including in the past a wardrobe which a nice young immigrant family took.
Yesterday a old two wheel suitcase which was gone in under a hour.
Taking of which the wheeled suitcase has to be one of lifeās most obvious inventions, just wonder why it took so long to get the two wheel and then four wheel version.
Putting the finishing touches to this
In case youāre wondering itās a Leak Varislope 2 Stereo. A lot of the components are in frequency sensitive circuits (tone controls, filters etc) and essentially every single one had drifted out of spec. So Iāve had to replace all of them. Iāve just finished the wafer switch towards the top right (bit fiddly as some of the components are located within the wafer stack).
Itās been a good deal of work and I fear most of its features may never be used in anger. But along with its partnering Stereo20 it was a present to the current owner when he was a teenager from his late father. So I think he was keen to get it fully working again for sentimental reasons as much as anything else.
VB
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Going to the seaside with the new Ms ICHM, I am so fickle.
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Take the old sofa with you and cast it adrift.
Thatās no way to talk about her 
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Wonāt fit in the Merc, itās too big and itās too heavy for one person. I could drag it, but hey.
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Againā¦
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Thanks for all the likes 
! I have to say I was quite pleased with it (and pleased it was done). Pride comes before a fall. Imagine my disappointment when I turned it on and found the right channel worked fine but the left one was silent 
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Surely one of you spotted it ? But you didnāt say, did you ? And I thought that was what friends were for ā¦ 
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Itās taken me a while to find it. See these two resistors over towards the right side.
They are the anode loads for the second EF86s, confusingly the right channel one is on the left and vice versa. The right channel one is red-red-yellow. The left channel one is red-red-gold. Yellow. Gold. A small difference, you might think. No. The yellow banded one has exactly A HUNDRED THOUSAND times the resistance of the gold banded one.
The weird thing is that I donāt think Iāve ever bought any of those gold banded ones. Their resistance is so very low that there is no use for them in valve circuitry (thereās not much use for them even in SS). Iāve had a quick look and I donāt appear to have got any others. Hmmm.
Still, itās working now. Thereās a bit of gain imbalance which I need to track down, but Iām almost out of the woods I think (famous last words ā¦).
VB
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Beautiful tidy work Graeme, very-easily-missed mistake notwithstanding!
I once bought an ex-mil batch of 100 Dale resistors from Ebay cos I needed an odd value (something like 870R) and they were cheap, when they arrived, they looked identical at a glance, but proved to have nearly 30 different valuesā¦ Had intended to sell the rest, but many of them were useful values, so worked out well.
Somewhere I have a couple of 1m resistors - I wanted 1M - quite a significant value difference, and taught me a lesson in attention to detail!
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I know what you mean about the Dales. even with my reading specs on I struggle with them (what is it with people who mount them with the value on the underside !).
Iām currently trying to track down a henās tooth. I need (qty 2) 180k resistors. They have to be vintage Erie ceramics and not the more common type 8s but the high-stability cracked-carbon type 108s. And Iād like them with essentially full length leads. And with the colour bands not chipped off. Theyāll allow me to fix a pair of TL/50s which currently look like this (i.e. with high-stab Eries almost, but not quite, all the way through)
VB
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