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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    I'm doing well, thanks.
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    Dont forget - you owe us some shots of the setups... :)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    KennethSwauger wrote: »
    From what I remember, the side "hatches" were intended for storing luggage. I also seem to remember that the car, or some portion of the car, was built by a division of Yamaha. There is a James Bond movie, the one where 007 goes to Japan and fights a sumo wrestler, that has a scene where a beautiful girl picks him up at the airport driving one of those.

    You Only Live Twice :)

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    ^^^ you know... it's not a bad idea...
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  • Nightfall
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    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Had to chuckle a bit when I saw this. :smile:
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,106
    verb wrote: »
    Had to chuckle a bit when I saw this. :smile:

    Well, that explains a whole hell of a lot. :#
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,598
    Probably the vibrators part. Get your mind out of the gutter Dave!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    edited December 2019
    audioluvr wrote: »
    Probably the vibrators part. Get your mind out of the gutter Dave!

    exactly! Vibrators were staples of the HV power supplies in the days of vacuum tube car radios!

    for example...

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    This gal* knows which ones she likes best!

    _____________
    * It was the 1950s, OK? Work with me, here! B)
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    edited December 2019
    Thank you Mark! I did a quick internet search last night, and was, ugh, shocked! Needless to say I did not find the image above! :blush:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    edited December 2019
    verb wrote: »
    Thank you Mark! I did a quick internet search last night, and was, ugh, shocked! Needless to say I did not find the image above! :blush:

    Here's some G-rated reading on :blush: vibrators.

    https://www.radioremembered.org/vpwrsup.htm
    http://messui.polygonal-moogle.com/valves/VR199905.pdf

    The latter article's somewhat more comprehensive & technical (and also Australian), but includes an amusing comment near the beginning about the appropriateness of old time "radiomen" (as they would've been called in those long-ago times) discussing vibrators at work ;)

    The vibrator power supply was sort of an early, brute-force inverter (or switch-mode) P/S :) The vibrator is (was) an electromechanical gizmo that essentially chopped up DC to make a dirty AC (or pulsating DC, in the case of a 'synchronous' supply), rich in RFI (just like modern "switchmode" power supplies). That pulsating voltage (ooh, ooh!) could be used to feed a transformer which could be used to convert the low voltage from a car battery (6V in the early days!) to the kind of high voltage (100 to 200 volts, or even more) DC needed to efficiently run the plates of radio vacuum tubes (especially power tubes, needed for the 'final' audio output. Downstream from the transformer would be a filter network to clean up the output to give reasonably pure, high-voltage DC (which is what the radio was... umm... lusting for).

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    Now -- if any of you vibrator-fiends are interested in the late-1950s development of "space charge" tubes that slowly but surely allowed car radios to get away from their vibrators... lemme know and I'll tell you more.

    All G rated, of course. B)
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  • Viking64
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,772
    edited December 2019
    NM - Vanilla gave me too much shrinkage.
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    Viking64 wrote: »
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    Lol! :smile:
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    So admittedly, I got 11. I'm getting there! :smile:
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    Spare Room: Dayens Ampino Integrated Amp, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's, Shunyata Hydra 8 Power Conditioner
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  • OleBoot
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Candy cigarettes, party land line, drive in movies, Andy Griffith Show, that's all I got.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,106
    I got 13 of them and I am 55. :o
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    Viking64 wrote: »
    I got 13 of them and I am 55. :o

    Well Jimmy you're a man beyond his years. A.k.a Older than dirt! :smile:
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Being 70, I got 16. Numbers 1, 2, 3, and 20 I missed.
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    Three 20 amp circuits.
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    I'm at 9 and not even 40 yet... HTH!?
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    Candy cigarettes, party land line, drive in movies, Andy Griffith Show, that's all I got.

    Party land lines? That goes back to newsreels before the movies! Try harder sir! :smile:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,893
    My great aunt's tobacco farm and house in Severn, MD had a party line when I was a kid (1960s). And no indoor privy, either. She did have running water, but it wasn't potable.

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,553
    verb wrote: »
    So admittedly, I got 11. I'm getting there! :smile:
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    I've got them all, I remember them well
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    ^^^^ We have a winner! Tell me Ivan how does that party line of yours get internet? :smile:
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,553
    edited December 2019
    verb wrote: »
    ^^^^ We have a winner! Tell me Ivan how does that party line of yours get internet? :smile:
    By satellite of course...

    When i was just a wee toddler our phone line shared the neighbors. My first camera had the blue bulbs with steel wool in them. Fun sport sneak into the dark bedroom of the parents and light one of those off BOOM instant daylight.

    I spent a lot of time in trouble, I pushed the envelope and boundaries.
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  • mark090852
    mark090852 Posts: 996
    edited December 2019
    I got 20 out of 20...dammit!!!
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