On 31/07/2022 21:39, tony sayer wrote:
> In article <6P-dnStVPqKmE0P_nZ2dnUU7-fWdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>, Max

>> It's a matter of degree. Enthusiasts never had to make their own valves
>> or transistors.
>>
>
> Made a valve once, many years ago and it worked albeit a simple
> triode!...

How did you evacuate it?

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On 01/08/2022 11:24, Max Demian wrote:
>
> On 31/07/2022 21:39, tony sayer wrote:
>>
>> Made a valve once, many years ago and it worked albeit a simple
>> triode!...
>
> How did you evacuate it?

That's ambiguous, and reminds me of the old joke:

Q: How do you know when you've passed an elephant?
A: You get a burning sensation and tears in yer eyes!

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On 01/08/2022 12:41, Java Jive wrote:
> On 01/08/2022 11:24, Max Demian wrote:
>>
>> On 31/07/2022 21:39, tony sayer wrote:
>>>
>>> Made a valve once, many years ago and it worked albeit a simple
>>> triode!...
>>
>> How did you evacuate it?
>
> That's ambiguous, and reminds me of the old joke:
>
> Q:  How do you know when you've passed an elephant?
> A:  You get a burning sensation and tears in yer eyes!

When they test the fire alarms in the local supermarket the announcement
says, "Do not evacuate the store." I like to add, "...or your bowels."

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On 03/08/2022 12:38, Max Demian wrote:
> When they test the fire alarms in the local supermarket the announcement
> says, "Do not evacuate the store." I like to add, "...or your bowels."

I was watching someone on BBC News (?) talking to their reporter at one
of the football grounds in the last weeks. There was a fire alarm going
off and he said something like "it will only be a test". One of the
people in the studio told him quite firmly that they thought he should
leave NOW.

In article <XfKdnXGW6Ph1NHr_nZ2dnUU7-YGdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>, Max
Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com> scribeth thus
>On 31/07/2022 21:39, tony sayer wrote:
>> In article <6P-dnStVPqKmE0P_nZ2dnUU7-fWdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk>, Max
>
>>> It's a matter of degree. Enthusiasts never had to make their own valves
>>> or transistors.
>>>
>>
>> Made a valve once, many years ago and it worked albeit a simple
>> triode!...
>
>How did you evacuate it?
>

A wheeled vacuum pump! It was borrowed from an education establishment!,
it an it did work 'tho not as well as it might have, i didn't have any
"getter" to be fired off for those of you who aren't that old it was a
substance that soaked up the last of the air molecules in the valve when
they say a valve has gone "soft" it means that air has got into it!..

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

In article <tbkd99$r8hn$1@dont-email.me>, Jeff Layman
<Jeff@invalid.invalid> scribeth thus
>On 24/07/2022 21:40, tony sayer wrote:
>> In article <tbgmn8$3rhq4$1@dont-email.me>, Brian Gaff
>> <brian1gaff@gmail.com> scribeth thus
>>> Gw Smith, Laskys, yes the original, and in other streets Proops of course
>>> for all their novelties.
>>> We used to have in Kingston a shop called Southern Surplus, and the floor
>>> was rotting but it was piled high with gear from the forces, redundant stock
>>> and returns etc, much fun to be had.
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Up in Lincolnshire Birketts of the street is still there after all those
>> years!
>>
>> https://goo.gl/maps/g8Vvdrh8qGdjMuWh8
>
>That's 3 years old.
>
>John Birkett died three months ago. Anyone know if the shop is still open?
>

If i remember I'll phone them up and ask?..
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

On 23/07/2022 12:45, Brian Gaff wrote:
>
> Just around the corner of course was Denmark Street where Dick James Music
> used to have his office where all the aspiring young stars sent their
> acetates. Loads were found when they cleared it out some years ago.
> Cilla, the Beatles, seems such a short time ago, and the quality was crap,
> now demos are either sent via email or sold off as very polished tracks
> directly by the artists.

Oh yeccchhh! Have you seen what's happened to it now?

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/aug/07/outernet-london-now-building-review-denmark-street-tottenham-court-road-redevelopment-soho

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