Glass milk, Coke, and beer bottles all had a 2 to 5 cent deposit in Florida during my pre-teen years. I could hop on my bicycle at home, head north to the 4 lane main road, then turn east. I would hit the restaurants, bars, and apartment house dumpsters on the way to the 7-11 store where I would trade them for cash, a full bicycle basket would usually get me $1 to $2 which was often spent at the TV repair shop for parts or the corner drug store for the latest issue of an electronics magazine (25 to 35 cents).
When the Lum's restaurant opened on my path I got a big pay raise. There were so many beer bottles in their dumpster that I had to carry a burlap bag to hold them all. Lum's was a local Miami chain of 4 or 5 restaurants in the 60's....grew to hundreds, dead now.
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I was raised in good old England and buying beer in bottles was reserved for those who don’t have a clue about beer
The proper thing to do was to go down the pub on the weekend and drink yourself stupid on some hand drawn bitter from a properly stored keg until about 1030pm which is when the pub closed in those days, then after a couple of punch ups you head off to a curry house and eat the hottest damn curry you can find. by the time you were sober the consequences of the curry would’ve worn off too
according to my sister things haven’t changed much since then
The proper thing to do was to go down the pub on the weekend and drink yourself stupid on some hand drawn bitter from a properly stored keg until about 1030pm which is when the pub closed in those days, then after a couple of punch ups you head off to a curry house and eat the hottest damn curry you can find. by the time you were sober the consequences of the curry would’ve worn off too
according to my sister things haven’t changed much since then
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This was the case for milk, beer, and soda products in the 50's and early 60's, at least in Miami where I grew up.....but then the milkman actually brought fresh milk to your door in a delivery truck until Farm Stores squashed that. They used a refillable glass bottle during the early years before plastic took over. They were good for 10 cents off your next gallon when milk was well under a buck.
7-11 stores would pay cash for the refillable glass beer and soda bottles.
I made good money dumpster diving all through my younger years. As a young kid it was bottles, in my teens we hit the electronics importers notably Pearce Simpson and Juliette/Topp. They were next to each other and it didn't take a lot of smarts to make one good CB radio or cheap stereo set out of two dead ones. The Coulter Diagnostics (medical electronics) plant was always good for some scrap circuit boards from which I mined parts.
The coin mining computer case that I mentioned in post #2404 showed up late yesterday. It is large enough, and built sturdy enough to handle the collection of heavy iron needed for a 1 kilowatt tube amp.....I guess I'm running out of excuses not to build it.
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When we were kids, a couple of buddies & I had adjacent paper routes. This is bringing back fond memories of getting together at around 4:30 AM or so, then doing all 3 routes together. We'd buy quarts of chocolate milk (in cartons) right from the guy driving the truck around the neighborhood. He was a grouchy old bastard, but he always did the deal, heh.
Parts came in for valve/mosfet head phone amplifier.
Uses 12ax7 and irfp510 mosfet. Very detailed sound as has very wide bandwidth.
Also got parts for 100 watt retro bi polar amplifier.
Based on 1980's Maplin disco amp but only two output transistors.
Just to keep things fun I kept the TO3 type transistors, the heatsink bracket drilling is fun and has to be spot on. Sounds great.
Uses 12ax7 and irfp510 mosfet. Very detailed sound as has very wide bandwidth.
Also got parts for 100 watt retro bi polar amplifier.
Based on 1980's Maplin disco amp but only two output transistors.
Just to keep things fun I kept the TO3 type transistors, the heatsink bracket drilling is fun and has to be spot on. Sounds great.
I remember those days well, although by the time I was collecting bottles milk had gone to paper cartons (even for home delivery). That still left drink bottles though, and I was fortunate to have one of the local bottling plants within walking distance of my house. There weren't any real electronics magazines available in central NC during the late '70's so most of my hard-won cash went to Radio Shaft, where I could stretch my meager funds with whatever was on sale - and the monthly offering from the Free Battery Club.
I recall eating at one in the Charlotte area once. I remembred it partly because of the unusual name (I was about 10 at the time), but mostly because it served probably the best BLT I've ever had.
And just to stay on topic, an order to Mouser for a 7H choke and tip jacks for my almost-completed 2A3 amp.
Bought a nice looking Partridge
So I've just bought this rather nice looking choke for a tenner.
A Partridge Transformers choke "2H 400mA"
Looks like it is maybe for choke input PSU.
It's a pretty big beast.
Now I have to decide if I need a 400mA rated HT choke, or if selling it again will liberate enough funds to buy a lower rated but higher inductance choke for my submini tube amp.
So I've just bought this rather nice looking choke for a tenner.
A Partridge Transformers choke "2H 400mA"
Looks like it is maybe for choke input PSU.
It's a pretty big beast.
Now I have to decide if I need a 400mA rated HT choke, or if selling it again will liberate enough funds to buy a lower rated but higher inductance choke for my submini tube amp.
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Nice! I'm a subaru guy, we've had 4 since 2004- the first we bought new, an 04 Forester XT. Then in 06 we picked up a 95 legacy wagon. The legacy was still driving fine (but was on the way out) when we traded it in on a 2012 impreza. We picked up a 2018 Crosstrek, and got rid of the Forester in 18 as well (150k driven hard and put away wet, was getting a little long in the tooth).
I'm sure you'll be very happy, a 3.6R limited should be very nice. Eyesight is a great safety pack.
I bought an small 12v impact wrench.
Nice I didn't know that they did a battery one. I spent hours trying to get a flywheel nut off with a traditional impact driver (hitting it with a four pound hammer) and got nowhere. My girlfriend at the time went to the local hire shop and hired an electric rattle gun (I didn't know such a thing even existed, I'd only seen the compressed air variety) she just came to the garage and said try this..... It still took about 10 minutes but it came off
Tony.