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Ugh. Last weekend, I dug into an Akai X-1810D RTR tape deck from my dad's collection. It appears that a mouse (or two, three???) decided to take-up residence in the tape deck cabinet. Apparently, they took a liking to certain wires...or insulators.
And the headphone jack wiring:
There was also a LOT of green rat/mouse poison pellets (and dust) 'stored' inside the cabinet. The little guys thought the poison was so tasty, they stockpiled it inside the tape deck cabinet.
Some wire paths got totally replaced, and some got a heat-shrink tubing layer added. I'm happy to report that everything is working, but do still need to replace the VU meter lamps."This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
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Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
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THIS is a knife
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Indeed. For a long time, the CAT scan was a primary tool in my hifi troubleshooting armamentarium.
radios, too...
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two from ASR
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In a very small town bar, between Omaha and Lincoln. Never been there. Clever idea. -
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
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I was up in WA that year. Moved to Texas the following month. They had closed so many things because the heat.....the city dump, lots of fast food restaurants...and I thought I was just getting primed for the move lolMarantz AV10-Emotiva ERC3-Denafrips Venus-Panasonic UB820-AudioQuest Power Quest 707-Emotiva DR3, DR2, XPA2, XPA6-Focal Kanta No2, Sopra Center-PolkAudio RTiA9, RTiA3, LSiM 702F/X-Epik Empire-SVS SB5000-11.3 -
1930’s was the Great Dustbowl2-channel: Modwright KWI-200 Integrated, Dynaudio C1-II Signatures
Desktop rig: LSi7, Polk 110sub, Dayens Ampino amp, W4S DAC/pre, Sonos, JRiver
Gear on standby: Melody 101 tube pre, Unison Research Simply Italy Integrated
Gone to new homes: (Matt Polk's)Threshold Stasis SA12e monoblocks, Pass XA30.5 amp, Usher MD2 speakers, Dynaudio C4 platinum speakers, Modwright LS100 (voltz), Simaudio 780D DAC
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So, a friend of mine and his wife are out in the boontillies of Oregon tonight, and at the local podunk dive, this is their menu. LOL
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
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^^^ Ahh, the Domestic Hovercat! Fairly common, but rarely photographed in action.
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similarly, although it's not common knowledge, young deer (fawns) can fly. Similar to North Pole reindeer, the process is fairly straightforward: they just run into the wind, then jump.
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My son's 2 Mantis egg sac just hatched. He'll be keeping a couple and releasing the rest in the neighborhood.
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... a few fireflies (or, as those living in and around Charm City, at least back in the 1960s would say, lightning bugs) looking for love on the night before the summer solstice.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »
... a few fireflies (or, as those living in and around Charm City, at least back in the 1960s would say, lightning bugs) looking for love on the night before the summer solstice.
Waiting for them to start showing up here. Unfortunately with that comes June bugs/Japanese beetles -
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I didn't manage to get a photo, but we were down at Huntley Meadows in Alexandria (roughly a year ago) and saw an osprey, fish in talons, being harassed by an eagle. The latter did finally manage to pester the osprey enough that the fish got dropped. Needless to say, the eagle swooped down, grabbed the fish, and lit out.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »I didn't manage to get a photo, but we were down at Huntley Meadows in Alexandria (roughly a year ago) and saw an osprey, fish in talons, being harassed by an eagle. The latter did finally manage to pester the osprey enough that the fish got dropped. Needless to say, the eagle swooped down, grabbed the fish, and lit out.
Eagles are way more opportunistic than I ever imagined as a kid.
Much of their reputation is undeserved
They're pretty smarmy birds, left to their own devices. Beautiful, though.
Heck, they don't even have an impressive call. Almost always, when you "hear" a (bald) eagle call in a movie or on a TV show (e.g., the opening credits of Northern Exposure, if you remember that), it's an overdubbed red-tailed hawk!
Ben Franklin lobbied for the adoption of the turkey in lieu of the bald eagle as the national symbol for a reason.
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