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  • Nightfall
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    3,300 year old Egyptian sandals. Pretty cool.

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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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  • Viking64
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    3,300 year old Egyptian sandals. Pretty cool.

    My Mummy has a pair just like that.
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  • Willow
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  • mhardy6647
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    3,300 year old Egyptian sandals. Pretty cool.

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    makes you wonder where their 3000 year old socks for 'em are...

    ;)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    Kex wrote: »
    Gah! Socks with sandals? NO THANK YOU!

    They must not have been a favorite pair... don’t seem to have suffered much from extended use!

    Probably ritual sandals for the afterlife -- low mileage in this world :)
    I'm just musing, though -- archaeology is something I know little about... much less Egyptology, nor anthropology.

    The socks/sandals thing -- the Romans, apparently, did it. They were heavily armed (for their day), though... so -- I mean -- who would throw shade at 'em for doin' it? :)

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/7964516/Romans-wore-socks-with-sandals-new-British-dig-suggests.html
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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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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    They're gone now, but here was their last (well maybe penultimate) hurrah. Photo taken on the 15th. No trickery involved except a CP filter to improve the sky contrast (EDIT: i.e., to make it look in the photo more like the way it appeared to my eyes). :p

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  • CH46E
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    Wow, great pic!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    sunset from two days before the photo I posted above.

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  • Jaybeez
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    Come tomorrow this kit is gonna feel my wrath #longhardweek
    2 Channel "Polk" Room:

    Marantz PM8004 Integrated
    Marantz SA8004 SACD Player
    Music Hall mmf 7.3 TT with Ortofon Bronze
    WiiM Mini
    Schiit Bifrost with Multibit Upgrade
    Polk 7B with RDO198s
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    2 Channel "Polk" Room:

    Marantz PM8004 Integrated
    Marantz SA8004 SACD Player
    Music Hall mmf 7.3 TT with Ortofon Bronze
    WiiM Mini
    Schiit Bifrost with Multibit Upgrade
    Polk 7B with RDO198s
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  • joecoulson
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    I gotta fever...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    I think I know what I want for The Winter Holidays...

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    as seen at: https://hifihaven.org/index.php?threads/seen-elsewhere.5411/
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  • CH46E
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    Found this 2 .2 ft snake (Corn) running over my foot while putting some stuff in the recycled bin. I'm. Not afraid of snakes but when you grow up in the Mojave Desert you know what to look out for and you always wonder, hmmmmm is that a Sidewinder or a Mojave Green Diamondback? Turned out to be a Corn Snake.

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  • CH46E
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I think I know what I want for The Winter Holidays...

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    as seen at: https://hifihaven.org/index.php?threads/seen-elsewhere.5411/

    Oh. Man I love that pic. Hahaha awesome. I dont have a enough tubes to make that happen.
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  • scubalab
    scubalab Posts: 3,105
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    Morning coffee with my best friend...

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  • tonyb
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    Nice pup, nuthin' like a hot coffee and cold nose in the mornings.
    HT SYSTEM-
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    Pioneer elite vhx 21
    Sony 4k BRP
    SVS SB-2000
    Polk Sig. 20's
    Polk FX500 surrounds

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    Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
    edited October 2019
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    one of these things is not like the other...

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    source: https://hifihaven.org/index.php?threads/i-have-so-gained-their-trust.5418/
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  • OleBoot
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  • aprazer402
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    Pick this up today for free. All I know is never plug in a tube amp without speakers connected. Also even though it looks intact there would be much work and restoration needed. When I saw back views of other 800B units on line I noticed two jumpers usually inserted in the rear RCA jacks, where I have circled in red. Since I also have the Fisher Dynamic Spacexpander (sans the spring thingy part used to make the reverb) the Spaceexpander may have been inserted where the jumpers are usually seen. From what I've read this Spacexpander was used in auto's, not so much for 2-channel. I remember reverb units for cars and some home use into the 1970's. From a quick look inside all the tubes are in place, but the wires (twine?) for the tuners on each side are not connected, but all connecting parts for them appear to still be there. This is a piece that someday I will seek out someone to prof. restore for me. I'm pretty sure I can find three replacement knobs for the front. @mhardy6647 (you know these)! Thanks for looking.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    That is a gorgeous 800B.
    Gorgeous.

    The service manual shouldn't be too hard to find, and it will (should) include instructions on restringing the dial cord. Antique Electronic Supply at least used to have dial cord; Radio Daze probably does if AES doesn't.


    Yes, it is well worth rehabbing those for a multitude of reasons, but that one looks to have had an easy life. The output tubes look amazingly 'young' based on the condition of the getter flash on all four of 'em). The Fisher receivers are extremely well engineered and (IMO) quite easy to refresh compared to some other, less thoughtfully laid out components from their era.

    Here's an under-deck photo of a Fisher 400 (the entry level, FM-only model, a bit newer than the "B" series) which I refreshed; illustrating (IMO) how nicely laid out these things are.


    15398531316_9081a8f560_c.jpgundersidenoveau by Mark Hardy, on Flickr
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    PS The Fisher push-pull 7868 and push-pull 7591A receivers (i.e., 400, 500B/C and 800B/C) all sound very, very good, too! FM sections are quite nice sounding as well. Phono sections are OK.
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  • aprazer402
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    That is a gorgeous 800B.
    Gorgeous.

    The service manual shouldn't be too hard to find, and it will (should) include instructions on restringing the dial cord. Antique Electronic Supply at least used to have dial cord; Radio Daze probably does if AES doesn't.


    Yes, it is well worth rehabbing those for a multitude of reasons, but that one looks to have had an easy life. The output tubes look amazingly 'young' based on the condition of the getter flash on all four of 'em). The Fisher receivers are extremely well engineered and (IMO) quite easy to refresh compared to some other, less thoughtfully laid out components from their era.

    Here's an under-deck photo of a Fisher 400 (the entry level, FM-only model, a bit newer than the "B" series) which I refreshed; illustrating (IMO) how nicely laid out these things are.


    15398531316_9081a8f560_c.jpgundersidenoveau by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

    Thank you for your nice comments and quick eval. I'll be sure to keep you posted on
    any progress. These are indeed well built and heavy. When stuff was made to last.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    The AM section should be pretty good in it, too! I don't own an 800, so I actually don't know :|

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  • boston1450
    boston1450 Posts: 7,759
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    If those knobs are like the Fisher 400 then (maybe) the knobs have caps on the ends that fall of due to old glue. Easy pop on with a dab of glue.There was a place on Ebay that sells them.
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  • boston1450
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    1st ones I saw BTW
    Randy-Maine
    2ch-RTA15tl crossover upgrade
    by David WMG
    Yamaha cr1000 cr2040
    HT-Yamaha Parasound Acurus
    MIT BJC Cs1000p Polk Rotation
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