By Robert Emslie
Of all the bad ideas expressed in this picture, I think the flip flops is the worst.
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I’m terrible with electronics. I keep getting myself involved with DIY electronics pursuits in a post-Heathkit era, such as HAM radio and the 14 wire harness of a Scout 80, thinking if I set the bar low and learn the way my ancestors did I should be okay. They had context, I have the internet.
This year’s challenge? A Dynaco FM-3 stereo FM tuner. Someone at work was letting one go for $50. I looked it up on the internet for 12 seconds and found out it was a kit unit, build it yourself. I’m in.
I haven’t taken possession of the unit, but I can tell you a few interesting things about it.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/k4z2kzIdrjA/maxresdefault.jpg
It has two knobs, tune and volume. Also a switch that goes between Off and POWER! Volume may be a pre-amp, and I expect the unit will need to be piped through a proper 100 to 1000 watt amplifier.
IT HAS A FLUORESCENT TUBE! Which I’ve never heard of but seems to be just as sexy as the Nixie Tube, if not more. The strength of the signal received is displayed on the front panel in what might look like old school green LEDs but is actually a glowing vacuum tube, an unobtainable tube called the EMM801 TELEFUNKEN. I’ll let this rap-epic-fantasy-metal powered video demonstrate the action.
On Atomic Toasters there used to be a feature called “Sometimes Free Stuff Isn’t Worth It”. It was a repository of questionable CraigsList offers that may end up costing you a lot more than a free lunch. I was a frequent contributor. Will $50 be worth it? Whatever, it’s powered by something called TELEFUNKEN! (FUN is their middle name!)
http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Roehren-Geschichtliches/Mag_Augen/Baender/EMM801-3.jpg
Just in time…?
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/19/8453165/norway-end-fm-radio-2017
Ok, can’t resist anyway. I bought a DAB+ radio a couple of years ago. There’s still no reception in all our tunnels (which doesn’t bother me – but my wife is a radio listener). And the whole concept…why put all money on a specialized network that’s ridiculously outdated upon its enforcement, rather than turning the entire country into a giant WiFi hot spot with internet radio? That would be a framework to build something on.
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Unfortunately Atomic Toasters seems to have slumped into a coma (even comments are closed again. Another attack by North Korean hackers?). But I keep hoping that Atomic Toasters will radiate again some day!
Its total lack of movement is due to being tired and shagged out following a prolonged meltdown. Or as I call it, every Wednesday.
The tube is USD77 in the bay, so you’d be USD127 in for an FM tuner…
Wouldn’t EM84 (or EM83) do something similar, but cheaper?
Fun!
Washington apparently wants my three-wheeled moped to have a speedometer, so I’ve recently finished assembling one of Radio Shack’s finest, as it’s of the same vintage as the American Microcar itself:
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/yVUAAOSwPhdU5U0E/$_35.JPG
No fluorescent tubes, but it does have a rather delicate-looking reed switch that I hope never needs to be replaced.
Pump some Skrillex through that baby and watch it explode!
Note: I am not now nor ever have been nor ever will be a Skrillex fan. I value both my eardrums and my kidneys too much.
There’s really no occasion that calls for Skrillex. Nor dubstep in general. NONE.
My brother is appalled by your comment.
I however, am in complete agreement.
Key & Peele summed it up nicely:
Dad’s home stereo system is one he spec’d out in 1965. Electro-Voice speakers, a Gerard turntable and a Fisher receiver / amp that has one of those in it, all mounted in a custom wood cabinet the size of a sofa. I think he paid $650 for it in 1965, two years before I was born.
I remember tuning that receiver and watching that beam converge.
We all know that what you need is straps! Tiny, weeny straps! D’oh.
https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/841x631q90/560/j0s9.jpg
Feeling old now – this photo was taken maybe seven years ago.
It is tied to a proper roof rack. Lightweight webbed straps are usually rated to about 400 lbs.
I would have added one longitudinally to keep the load from shifting during braking, and anchored the front strap to the rack mount, but otherwise it looks adequate.
You’re right. I think I might have been busy with that longitudinal strap in the photo.
The main problem here is that you never, ever, EVER, lay a refrigerator down, as there’s a very good chance of slugging the compressor, causing it to hydro-lock. Don’t do it.
Good point. But if you set it upright and leave it unplugged for 24 hours, you’ll be OK. The oil will settle back to where it belongs. I doubt if these folks know that !!!
Don’t be silly: If you did this with the refrigerator upright the front wheels of the car would be way up in the air!
How would you steer?
I’ve always heard that waiting 24 hours after setting it upright before plugging in will let gravity take care of things. I don’t know if that’s entirely true, but it has worked the times I have done it.
Why hasn’t this sold? The cleanest Volvo 240GL I’ve seen in a long time. If it was a wagon it would be mine. https://columbiamo.craigslist.org/cto/5177594609.html
http://images.craigslist.org/00b0b_8EVA5O68OZJ_600x450.jpg
Gratuitous Use Of Unnecessary Capitalization And Lack Of Paragraphs?
Also, no mention of how/if it runs, so YMMV. (But yeah, I’m surprised too.)
I have never understood why some people start an ad with this “firm price”-jalla jalla. Nobody, nobody, clicks on an ad ready to read that first. Describe the car, dammit.
Also, hard to tell on the phone screen, but is this a turd or rust or just dirt on the door sill?
http://images.craigslist.org/00m0m_aC3k6pCVwIP_600x450.jpg
I wondered about that too – kind of a weird spot on these to rust, at least when there’s no obvious rust anywhere else.
The welding spot there does rust, but not like that. I guess it’s just dirt?
How can it be unnecessary capititalisation when it’s on Craiglist? My understanding is that it’s mandatory.
My understanding is THERE IS NO UNDERSTANDING on Craigslist. PERIOD.
NO YOURE THINKING OF THE CAPSLOCK/NO PUNCTUATION STYLE PREFERRED BY SO MANY