Today's winner for best amp and speaker combo for playing heavy metal tunes on.... 
The Steam Amp II - Industrial Steampunk Art and Furnishings - CopperSteam
The Steam Amp II - Industrial Steampunk Art and Furnishings - CopperSteam
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BrianCO - May have discovered even better way to make waterwheel TT.... More parts and complexity = even more fun...!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmYqUSDch8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmYqUSDch8
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Indeed I have....but it needed a better flow control system so I installed a grand coulee style dam.....made a wonderful header tank. A farmer soon arrived - brandishing a 12g shotgun.....I thought that it was mad as I had not touched a farmer's daughter in the last 50 years. But he explained that he was the owner of the land which formed my header tank......working on the basis that he who turns and runs away lives to fight another day ... I fled to the TNT store, bought the necessary and blew the dam.
Next day he was back...with two gigantic sons...all carrying. Seems that the few cows and sheep which were good swimmers were all severely mutilated by falling rocks....So, on the basis that he who turns and runs away, I fled again. ..........................
Anyone got a nice cheap TT for sale??
The pic is of the very successful header tank which unfortunately had to be demolished. If you have time and want to hear the full story and buy copies of the drawings just call by - visiting days are every second tuesday,
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Krap - my water tank only held a few liters...... but it was designed with the intention of only playing one record at a time and not stacking them up like the old multi-player systems.....
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No comment.
(isn't it amazing how educational rerun after rerun of decades old British police series can be)
If it held only "a few litres" no wonder it was krap!
[Poor old chap...loosing it (the last brain cell)......a few litres - what was he thinking about when he knows full well that you need an enormous tank to get constant speed at 78rpm.]
Well - for awhile I really liked this idea for a magnetic turntable drive - but then I realized that I would have to stand around cranking it at a very steady speed.
Steady speed??? Me??? Manual labor??? I doooooooon't think sooooo!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ludLU4_6ZDM
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[wouldn't mind having that big lump of brass! Make a string/tape driven one with that.]
You are right to put that idea aside.
He was back with the shotgun this morning: and a box of matches + a "few litres" of petrol!
I really should have stayed at home last night....and his daughter wore me out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqNvU8PKjo
You are right to put that idea aside.
He was back with the shotgun this morning: and a box of matches + a "few litres" of petrol!
I really should have stayed at home last night....and his daughter wore me out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqNvU8PKjo
With music like that who needs a turntable anyway!!! A good listen to good music would be a wasted effort.....
Small fancontrol under my workbench
Do you have any plans to actually solder some of that stuff together some day?
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Do you have any plans to actually solder some of that stuff together some day?
Nope. Here is Keith telling Clapton that Avicii stops touring because of hard living
http://images6.fanpop.com/image/pho...s-and-Eric-Clapton-music-37670714-342-272.gif
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Do you have any plans to actually solder some of that stuff together some day?
Besides I'm to busy tickling up my new toy
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That thing iz a piece of junk that you should send to me for proper disposal... I'll give you a break and split the shipping cost with you...
It pings and bings and stuff. It does the Health check every time wo problems and I did the calibration test and it was well within limits, max 0,1 dBV off at any freq. But the buttons are slow. Kind of like a computer that lacks RAM. You know.. is anything happening...? then push again and it does two steps. It might be electronic or mechanical, oxidized buttons maybe. I think the guy died and relatives selling his stuff.