bakeliteguy.bsky.social
Classic cars, vintage technology, music, amateur radio.
Tipping my hat to those who created technology in the past
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I now need to find my VHSc recorder / Saticon camera acquired at that time to see if it still works.
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Ours are large grown up eating machines!
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One of my first proper jobs was servicing Telefunken gear. (badge engineered JVC) The VHSc camcorders were horrible to work on. I changed so many motorised zooms. They were front heavy and people would knock over tripods and drop them etc. They would then whine when it was not a guarantee repair.
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I know the feeling. Jan and I=bake one every other day.
When the kids are here= I could be baking every quarter of an hour and we would still run out...
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On ma shed!
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The first record played on Atlantic 252
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Saw one of those today...come to think of it I was driving it....
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Was lovely.
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By my office...
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Absolutely. Mrs. R worked as a staff nurse on a mobile blood donation unit for a while and had a Tony Hancock badge on her uniform 😁
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Looks like a young un having a mooch in the garden yesterday
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A pint? That is very nearly an armful....
So in honour of World Blood Donor day...on the Vintage turntable this morning
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Scary lady. I went to school round the corner from where she lived in Blackheath but not unconvinced she had not moved by then but the house would be pointed at murmured about in hushed tones...
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Vintage 33 1/3 replying....
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Daughter SJ is doing a Masters in building conservation currently and has spent quite a bit of time around there recently.
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Saw your post of Pete, thought 'that looks like Gail Myerscough's cat' I love her stuff. Looked at your biog and thought 'I wonder if he knows my neighbour, Lee Stuart-Evans' degrees of separation....
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What a nice evening that was with such a nice bunch of people. Thank you for your company.
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Young me Electronics and communications, now me, archeology or Industrial history.
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Brave. I have never quite had the bottle.
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Good on you! Brave lady!
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Fetch yer coat....!
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Beat me to it!
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So the cast of Porridge in 'The Great Escape'.
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The one where the boys got their 'Junior volunteer assitant deputy' cards from Chief Reynolds. I still have my complete set and read them to my kids when they were young. Elizabeth Arthur is now republishing the ones ger dad wrote and writing new ones.
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It was from what I remember.
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Bonnie Tyler made me a cup of tea once when I was fitting a phone system in the Brixton Academy. Random I know....
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No way! Oh no. How on earth can a new valve be bent, old stock or not.
I hope the supplier is getting them back (sideways)
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It is truely awful but Gabrielle Drake.....
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Maybe a quiet word is needed re Haribo!
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Read that blue one as 'Caught in Iran' 🤣
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Was a friend of my Dad.
I was named after his son who is about 5 years older than me.
His early death made my dad give up smoking which meant I had my dad around until he was 90.
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It had passed me by Richard no longer ran it.
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TFL also deny pollution levels are increased when you only have to walk along bits of the south circular near Woolwich to hear cars in 2nd and 3rd revving higher they would otherwise and smell the pollution, getting dangeroisly overtaken by bicycles on the inside.
Two sides to every story
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MAD!
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How many tins can they possibly sell? Mine was handed down and will probably outlive me!
My other ancient hand-me- down tin of stuff is this which gets used quite a lot. Useful for car stuff and electronics stuff.
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Of all the weirdly 70s acts it is strange that Sparks are the ones still making new music.
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So they thought it was a 'down with the Hoxton kids' thing rather than an 'Allergens' thing
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'Owner of a horse and cart' as Sir Rick of Wakeman calls it...
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It is a stunning piece of work. I would add 'The Bottle' and 'B-movie' to the stunning category too.
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