Craig Sawyers

I could be going deaf (not outside the realms of possibility) but my T2, either through 007's or a 1980's pair of original low bias Lambdas is absolutely silent.

Back in the early 80's I worked for a technology consultancy (PA Technology), and to generate ideas for marketing we used to organise brainstorm sessions. One of the guys in Electrical Engineering held one on white goods. I chirped up "hey - why not put a microprocessor in them and tie them up to a modem. Then you could phone the appliance and control it remotely". Now the fundamental rule of brainstorming is you don't reject ideas; but the guy who was running it said "Oh, I can just see it now - you get home and the dinner isn't made, and the wife says that the cooker wouldn't boot!". So the potential internet of things failed to get off the ground 30-odd years ago. I'll shut up now before I get into VR.

I'm kind of lucky regarding playing. I have a Garrard 401 that has a 78 speed. And when I bought that it came with Shure M75 cartridge along with a new in box 78 stylus along with a couple of regular vinyl ellipticals.

In a moment of madness I picked up 250 78rpm discs. All classical, complete sets and soloists like Gigli. My god they are heavy - I reckon that they weigh in at 75kg (170lb). Next task is to catalog precisely what on earth I've got. Oh - the whole lot was free of charge. WAF = 0 or even negative.

Hats off Brent - that is totally great. Zoe looks like she had a superb time, and has an awesome dad.

The blue is a lot more shouty than the red for sure.

I bought a bunch of different colour coded teflon high voltage rated insulated wire (eBay) when I built the T2 (and earlier than that the original BH). It was actually a bit more complicated with those valved/tubed designs because the heaters floated at 500V (IIRC), so I twisted the heater wires, and then pulled them through glass braid sleeving as an additional insulation barrier to the other umbilical wires. That is not a problem with the carbon because there are no heaters, but making up high quality high voltage umbilicals is time consuming whichever way you look at it..

Love 'em or hate 'em, you sure as hell can't ignore them

Aaw - that's not speaker porn. *This* is speaker porn (note the fire extinguisher..) "I've bought some new speakers, honey" (sound of door slamming)

Have a great day, Wayne!

Have a great one, Steve!

Now *this* is a sausage (a Cumberland Sausage) Not for breakfast, but with a variety of things like onion gravy, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, chips. Or all of that in a very large Yorkshire pudding. My mouth is watering. Oh yes - Google is your friend!

That has to be an English breakfast, because there is black pudding on there!

RIP Arnold Palmer - one of the all-time greats of golf. But at least 87 is not a bad round.

Happy birthday!

I have. In Majorca. It was very rubbery.

First of all, check that part is correct for a TO220 package - I didn't spend a vast amount of time verifying it was the right size.

Found this lurking on my PC CELLO_AUDIO_PALETTE (1).pdf

Oof!

Well spotted. But then I saw the price for one that would do a TO220 https://www.seastrom-mfg.com/washerdetails.aspx?productNumber=5729-9-4

^I have the original vinyl. The cover still shocks - I cannot imagine anyone producing an album cover like that now. Saw them live in '73.

The flared part of the washer faces a plain washer, and does not bear directly on the board. Do you notice the "rectangular steel washer"? Unless someone has an obscure source, these are unobtainium.

I just followed the recipies in this http://www.onsemi.com/pub_link/Collateral/AN1040-D.PDF .

I used to be list admin for the XJ Jaguar list on www.jag-lovers.org. It had about 8000 members internationally. There were a number of parts, car modification and other vendors on the list, including Jaguar themselves. If someone slagged one of them off there were instant threats of a legal suit against the admin (me). I stepped out - I just did not need that level of threat. In fairness to HF (yeah - I know...) the list owners have to deal with precisely this, and will, or ought, to have told advertisers how they deal with what could be interpreted as libel.

I agree with just about all that. At one stage you could buy thick rectangular washers the same size as a TO220 tab to spread the pressure, but they have not been available for years. I tried M3 PEEK screws on my build, but was unhappy with the very low torque necessary to strip the threads. In the end I used a combination of ceramic insulators (as specified by Kevin) and the really long insulating bushes, and stainless cap screws, nuts and Belville washers. My T2 was one of the first batch made, with casework supplied by Kevin, and I have had zero thermal problems.