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bonesy:
hi Davy,just remembered,in the loft I got an Amstrad hifi  :s_laugh: separates amp a 2000mk II think.Sound wise,not bad,but every switch / control crackles or thumps.Wonder if it still works.Was a hand me down from my best mate,he upgraded to a Pioneer or Marrantz  jobby & I had his old Amstrad.He was earning around £90 a week I was apprenticed on £25,Still am some weeks lol.

Davy:
I've worked on Marrantz, I wasn't impressed, maybe the build I dunno, I also thought, 'No, not another one', nothing wrong with the sound mind, Pioneer & JVC made some good equipment including turntables, I enjoyed working on them.

Just trying think of that BW Decca telly in my training day,  I seemed think it was the EHT reccy, it had a big metal domed anode cap, so did the line come think and a metal chassis..... Geez, you instigated the smallest of arc round there and let fly fast, it was like ferocious greased lightening  taking over, only way to stop it was to yank the plug..... the first time it happened to me I didn't know what the hell to do,  it put the fear of God in mi', it put the fear of God in  everyone, goading one another to set it off, after second or third attempt I was promoted...... to the chief settarofferra - No elf n safety in them day's.

Transistor tellies wouldn't have taken that punishment, this devil would arc, arc and arc and still work producing a nice crisp picture for it's day.

Dave

bonesy:
My first colour TV ,when I left home was a Decca Bradford,valve,transistor TV ran it for around three years,made it out of lots of scrap ones,had a slightly green tinge to the picture due to old tube,never went wrong.When I was the apprentice,one of my jobs was keeping our workshop clean & tidy.One day
I was sweeping the floor,behind me on the soak test bench was a Bush B&W set,that had just had a new LOPTX fitted,it was running minus it's metal covers,I bent over to sweep out under the bench behind,both valve top caps bit my bum & burnt two very deep holes in my bum,bloody sore for weeks.
Oh & never discharge EHT with screw drivers,if the sets still on!Never did that again one long Philips screw driver went through workshop ceiling,got a proper beating with  rolled up Daily Mirror,but no burns to hands or feet,very odd.Best of it was,the engineer in charge of me said "Jonesy,your a bloody liability,your never survive,let alone make an engineer"
A few day's later boss asks him to go up the shop & extend the main lead on the bosses electric fire,
chatting away,Big John,fits a 13 amp plug on one end of a reel of three core mains lead,the reel of cable he's got his arm through the middle,like a doughnut,yep he then preceded to put the plug in the 13 amp socket,the boss said he shot up the corridor like a rocket,pulling out off the wall the 13 amp socket,the other ends of the cable were neatly through the metal center of the reel.
I repeated word for word what he said to me about survival,which made everyone laugh,followed by another beating,with a daily newspaper.

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