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  • motorstereo
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    ^^^^^If you have a friend that works in the paving industry ask him to get you a broken one if want to save $. The handles don't last long and they always break off at the top of the steel plate. Most places I know toss the tamp plates as it's not worth paying a guy to dig the remnants of the old handle out and fit in the now shorter left over handle.
  • BlueBirdMusic
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    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    A masterpiece waiting for the wind to bring it alive.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
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  • billbillw
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    daddyjt wrote: »
    billbillw wrote: »
    ^^
    Yep, I will be selling most of my stuff before it gets to that.

    My kids (2) are already deciding who gets the HT gear and who gets the 2ch system when I go. Same with the physical media - my son wants all the music and my daughter wants the movies…

    I've tried to stoke up interest in both my kids. Neither seem to care much about HiFi or HT gear at this point. Maybe that will change as they get out of college and start to furnish their own places.
  • Geoff4rfc
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    Just came across this, my first national. Riverside CA before it shut down. It was 1987, still in my 20's lol.

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  • skipshot12
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    Damn a stud you were... No Homo.
  • audioluvr
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    skipshot12 wrote: »
    Damn a stud you were... No Homo.

    Right? Probably had beautiful women AND men clamoring for his attention. :D
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  • Geoff4rfc
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    audioluvr wrote: »
    skipshot12 wrote: »
    Damn a stud you were... No Homo.

    Right? Probably had beautiful women AND men clamoring for his attention. :D

    Well....it was California :D
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  • Geoff4rfc
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    Also from Riverside CA in 87

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  • mhardy6647
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    A grainy photograph taken in 1864 shows a group of Japanese samurai standing in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt. This jolting image messes with our sense of history – the traditional Japanese clothes, the ancient Egyptian monument, and the European camera just don’t seem to add up. As unexpected as this combination may be, the 161 year-old photograph highlights a pivotal moment in the history of Japan and the globalized world.

    The image depicts the Second Japanese Embassy to Europe, also called the “Ikeda Mission.” Under the order of the Tokugawa shogunate, the military dictators who ruled feudal Japan, local governor Ikeda Nagaoki was sent off to Europe in 1864 in a bid to resolve a burning disagreement over the port of Yokohama.
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  • Viking64
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  • SCompRacer
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  • Tony M
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    Today, December 31, 2025, marks the 146th anniversary of Thomas Edison's grand public demonstration of his practical incandescent light bulb at Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1879. Thousands arrived by special trains to see the lab and grounds aglow with dozens of steady-burning bulbs—powered by his dynamo—heralding the electric age and inspiring our modern holiday and New Year's light displays.

    From those pioneering carbon-filament lights to the iconic Times Square ball drop (first electrified in 1907), American ingenuity has turned darkness into celebration.

    Tonight, as we welcome 2026—our nation's 250th anniversary year—let's embrace that pioneering spirit: innovating boldly, uniting joyfully, and illuminating a future of freedom and promise.

    Wishing you a sparkling New Year's Eve full of light and hope!


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    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

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  • mhardy6647
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  • SCompRacer
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    New Years Eve marketplace buy. I needed some Scotch 203 for the two Teac A-6300's to calibrate bias # 2 setting. Bias # 1 was calibrated for new tape, LPR35. 203 isn't known for sticky shed syndrome. I can include some when I sell the deck(s).

    203 for $8 each, new LX for $20 and the Realistic switch box for $6.

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  • Tony M
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    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

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  • jdjohn
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    Tony M wrote: »

    Today, December 31, 2025, marks the 146th anniversary of Thomas Edison's grand public demonstration of his practical incandescent light bulb at Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1879. Thousands arrived by special trains to see the lab and grounds aglow with dozens of steady-burning bulbs—powered by his dynamo—heralding the electric age and inspiring our modern holiday and New Year's light displays.

    From those pioneering carbon-filament lights to the iconic Times Square ball drop (first electrified in 1907), American ingenuity has turned darkness into celebration.

    Tonight, as we welcome 2026—our nation's 250th anniversary year—let's embrace that pioneering spirit: innovating boldly, uniting joyfully, and illuminating a future of freedom and promise.

    Wishing you a sparkling New Year's Eve full of light and hope!


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    And in the 1920s, after saturation of the light bulb market occurred, the Phoebus cartel realized that repeat sales of light bulbs would not occur quickly enough, since the initial carbon filaments would last several thousand hours. They then decided as a group to begin using tungsten filaments, so that light bulbs would only last about 1,000 hours, creating the first "planned obsolescence" of technology.

    Of course, the same type of thing still occurs today, with computer software, hardware, and cell phones.
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  • aprazer402
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  • Tony M
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    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    --Mark Twain.

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  • mhardy6647
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    Where's Ringo?!? :o
  • billbillw
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    jdjohn wrote: »
    Tony M wrote: »

    Today, December 31, 2025, marks the 146th anniversary of Thomas Edison's grand public demonstration of his practical incandescent light bulb at Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1879. Thousands arrived by special trains to see the lab and grounds aglow with dozens of steady-burning bulbs—powered by his dynamo—heralding the electric age and inspiring our modern holiday and New Year's light displays.

    From those pioneering carbon-filament lights to the iconic Times Square ball drop (first electrified in 1907), American ingenuity has turned darkness into celebration.

    Tonight, as we welcome 2026—our nation's 250th anniversary year—let's embrace that pioneering spirit: innovating boldly, uniting joyfully, and illuminating a future of freedom and promise.

    Wishing you a sparkling New Year's Eve full of light and hope!


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    And in the 1920s, after saturation of the light bulb market occurred, the Phoebus cartel realized that repeat sales of light bulbs would not occur quickly enough, since the initial carbon filaments would last several thousand hours. They then decided as a group to begin using tungsten filaments, so that light bulbs would only last about 1,000 hours, creating the first "planned obsolescence" of technology.

    Of course, the same type of thing still occurs today, with computer software, hardware, and cell phones.

    I think you have your science wrong there. Tungsten was an improvement in every respect. Longer life, more durable, and brighter.
    I'm not disputing the cartel stuff. That was a thing, but they made the life shorter by making the filament thinner, which also resulted in a brighter bulb for the same wattage. The same can still be seen today with traditional incandescent headlights for cars. The ultra bright ones always have shorter lifespan.
  • skipshot12
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    Lest we forget... Edison did not invent/create the light.
  • skipshot12
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    Ooops... light bulb.