What the hell am i ?

Luke Whitton · Nov 7, 2016

infrared said:
I'm sure this will be fairly obvious... Bonus points if you can tell me a make/good description

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Tube Amp

infrared · Nov 7, 2016

Luke Whitton said:
Tube Amp

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It's powered by a 1.5V battery for the tube heaters and a 90V battery :twitch:

for the HV, no mains input.

edit: it's pretty obscure I guess, being so old. It's a 1955 portable AM radio

It should work, I need to replace all the old wax capacitors before I try though, they go bad and there's a good chance it'll destroy the tubes as it is.

AsRock · Nov 7, 2016

Random Murderer said:
Took me a moment... That's really cool, I've never seen one like that before.

Well i am guessing you noticed it's for a Christmas tree, well apparently they plug in to one of the light sockets and it all lights up with the trains going around lol.

infrared said:
I'm sure this will be fairly obvious... Bonus points if you can tell me a make/good description

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Well Celestion is a speaker manufacture a much liked one. Maybe a radio ?, i came across one some time ago but it was so beat to shit

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OOps, really looked like a tuner from going from the left side.
EDIT: was thinking of the ones that plug in with the big old wooden casing.

The speaker probably be worth a good penny

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infrared · Nov 7, 2016

Yup, it's an AM radio, PYE is the brand

Might be worth something, I'm more interested in getting it working, then maybe selling it.

edit: interesting about the speaker brand, ty for the tidbit

AsRock · Nov 7, 2016

infrared said:
Yup, it's an AM radio, PYE is the brand
Might be worth something, I'm more interested in getting it working, then maybe selling it.

Well you seen how much some of those TANNOY speaker go for these days, you maybe in for a present surprise.

Gotta get it working just to hear how it was back then

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infrared · Nov 7, 2016

AsRock said:
Well you seen how much some of those TANNOY speaker go for these days, you maybe in for a present surprise.

Hmmm, that'd be pretty cool. Some people are prepared to pay silly money for some things, maybe I'll get lucky.

AsRock said:
get it working just to hear how it was back then .

Definitely! I bet I can rig up a simple AM transmitter and get some retro bioshock/fallout type music playing on it. I wonder if this counts as nostalgia being that I wasn't around for another 33 years lol

nomdeplume · Nov 8, 2016

Nostalgia as a word didn't exist until soldiers started returning from Viet Nam. At the very least the modern meaning was invented as spelling and languages in general are very fluid.

I couldn't be bothered to remove the lettering off the acrylic cover on a magicjack for lols. So here is an amazing but probably too easy to google one that is Winter appropriate.

peche · Nov 8, 2016

nomdeplume said:
Nostalgia as a word didn't exist until soldiers started returning from Viet Nam. At the very least the modern meaning was invented as spelling and languages in general are very fluid.

I couldn't be bothered to remove the lettering off the acrylic cover on a magicjack for lols. So here is an amazing but probably too easy to google one that is Winter appropriate.

air humidifier?
just read an article yesterday about it!

Luke Whitton · Nov 8, 2016

infrared said:
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It's powered by a 1.5V battery for the tube heaters and a 90V battery for the HV, no mains input.

edit: it's pretty obscure I guess, being so old. It's a 1955 portable AM radio It should work, I need to replace all the old wax capacitors before I try though, they go bad and there's a good chance it'll destroy the tubes as it is.

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So back in the day, how was it powered?

Random Murderer · Nov 8, 2016

peche said:
air humidifier?
just read an article yesterday about it!

It is, I googled the image and got the same result.

peche · Nov 8, 2016

Random Murderer said:
It is, I googled the image and got the same result.

well googling things its loke cheating...
i read that article, commercial or ad on a book while waiting for my karate sensei on a meeting, also it was on saturday, !

Regards,

Jetster · Nov 8, 2016

Okay how about this

Random Murderer · Nov 8, 2016

peche said:
well googling things its loke cheating...

Which is why I didn't guess

Jetster said:
Okay how about this

I'm not going to guess on this one either, but only because I know exactly what it is, I've used them before

peche · Nov 8, 2016

Jetster said:
Okay how about this

have seen it arround the office, but dunno the use, i personally quit with this one...

Regards.

Luke Whitton · Nov 8, 2016

Jetster said:
Okay how about this

A guess... Something to do with Vinyl Records? For the needle?

Jetster · Nov 8, 2016

Luke Whitton said:
A guess... Something to do with Vinyl Records? For the needle?

No its computer related

Luke Whitton · Nov 8, 2016

Jetster said:
No its computer related

Only thought that as the red bit sorta looks like the needle end of things.
I don't have a clue then!

peche · Nov 8, 2016

Jetster said:
No its computer related

actually its Lan / network related...

Luke Whitton · Nov 8, 2016

peche said:
actually its Lan / network related...

I can sorta see how the two bits got together. Is it a crimping device?

Jetster · Nov 8, 2016

Luke Whitton said:
I can sorta see how the two bits got together. Is it a crimping device?

No

peche · Nov 8, 2016

Jetster said:
No

my fella here in the office found the answer, thats why im not able to reply by my own...

Regards,

Jetster · Nov 8, 2016

I always called it a pain in the ass but just recently learned its name

infrared · Nov 8, 2016

Luke Whitton said:
So back in the day, how was it powered?

I missed your post, sorry.

Powered by two dry batteries, pretty nuts that they did 90v batteries, you'd feel that if you put your tongue on it for sure!! :eek:

I bet they didn't last very long, can't find any info on run time.

droopyRO · Nov 9, 2016

An old radio, probably with AM band ?

Jetster · Nov 9, 2016

Jetster said:
Okay how about this

RJ45 blockout device.

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