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Turnip:
Hi Davy,

You're a youngster,

Philips and B&O have had their problems, but none fire up like an old Thorn - Chris.

PS - Recall a Bush CTV25 burned the shop to a crisp, before they used the 'Davy Lamp' netting.

Fortunately passing at the time, and wife did coffee for the fire fighters.

Gather, a year later Bush used transistors and a tripler - Neat.

By then with 'Rediffusion'

Became independent, as they couldn't handle my private jobs - One needs to earn.

OldLes:
Well, aren't we getting all nostalgic?
But Davy's young apprentice with the burning headphones was lucky. My pal Dave (former workmate, we are both gentlemen of leisure these days) had a very good friend (before me of course), who, just like me, he used to visit once a week as a ritual. This chap had been Baird who had an early valve colour set, the design of which he was involved. (I can't remember which model right now, but I was once asked to look at one of these dual standard monsters. The BIGGEST set of its era I ever saw.)
Anyway, well into his retirement, he started playing with one of these brain wave/music machines. He built a box with it all inside, including his own mains powered power supply. When my pal arrived, he found him dead, having suffered electrocution because of a failure of the transformer's isolation.
By coincidence, Dave has found two other dead bodies over the years, and I sometimes worry I may be next.
Les.

Turnip:
Hi Les, only the older folks,

Remember my dad assembling a 'Viewmaster' in the late 50s with genuine 'Blue Prints'

He couldn't afford the tube though, and sadly expired in '61 from the Burma railway biz.

Was handed down his Henley Solon 60w iron plus his Pifco radiometer (was moving iron so ran down an HT battery just checking it)

Still have the soldering iron, and use it freeing up grease in the steering joints on my classic motor so I can squirt in some more.

Suspect sets that used a mains transformer for the EHT were the most deadly, even if only 5Kv - Chris.

PS - Recall, way back in the early 70s, used to light my fags from the EHT output of a Ferguson 3000 jelly pot LOPT when working bench tech for Rediffusion.

Made the mistake of trying to re-light one after lunch, was naturally a bit damp - but seem to have survived the ECT episode - a bit.

kennyc:
Everybody is getting nostalgic . Remember doing my apprenticship at Radio Rentals and having to do screen cleans then having to take Sobell and GEC 2018 tuners apart to clean the slider .Also remember when you first saw somebody put the spark from an EY67 to chassis and seeing the big blue spark . Worst was when somebody handed you a charged 400volt capacitor for the first time

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