Shop Time w/T.W. Friends

No charge for the open package add on

 

IKR, that’s how my beloved CR2020 met its demise. Miss the phono section but that’s about it. Wish You Good luck gettin’ ‘er back goin.

 

So yous guys mentioning CD's got me looking. These are the only ones that I somehow have made it here.



I know I had a bunch more, but I've moved 4 times in the past 9 years. Guess stuff was bound to have gotten lost. Everything has a digital backup on my computer luckily. But Hell, the 2021 Tacoma don't even have no CD player...

 

There's a guy I work with that's a good electronics guy; works on old arcade stuff. He can most likely figure it out. I need to bring it to him and give him say a $200 budget to get it somewhat functional.

I have an early 80's Hitachi that I've gotten working, but the dial potentiometers(sp?) need torn apart and cleaning.

 

Must be somethin’ wrong with me but I always ask “what packed it in” or “what went wrong”. Can’t believe some guys settle for “it’s the board” & leave ‘er at that. Like, how do you ever learn anything.

Everything is going that way.

 

I have small wooden holders that keep about 30 each. Try to keep all the A's together, then B's, etc..

Bah, nerd it up. I have a 86 Schwinn Predator Freeform EX I restored and a 85 Hutch Wind Styler I built, still has original paint/decals.

Good collection there especially the Uncle Acid. Don't think I ever saw the ZZ album.

 

Can you go the acetone route to fix the pot like I did with my speakers?

 

I got the volume control sorta working buy spraying it down with contact cleaner and working it. Probably will have to de-solder the pot itself and go further. This will all be winter stuff I can do while it's cold and can't work outside.

 

Leave a tag on it so you don’t have to remember what’s been done or what’s still wrong. Tags have better memory than me these days even though I get half a year of Winter to work on it.

 

It's here!

 

Bike class time, 27” bike rims are an oddball rim size from back in the day, nobody uses them anymore. 700 C is your standard road bike rim size, “10 speed” bike rims.

Fuji Saratoga, Drop bar refers to the handlebars.


Albatross bars and what I want my bike to look like


Josh Bryant bike, it’s called a NFD, mine is a neat forest service green instead of the brown

 

That’s cool, I just learned several things. I tell my son all the time everything has a name. I just learned a few

 

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Apparently he is, too. We were going to make a Costco run in it, I went inside for a minute and he left.

 

Nice

 

These are neat, thanks for sharing

 

At the way back job I walked in the shop to hear the howl of the electric/hydraulic press on the relief valve.

Two fools were crowded over it, as I was stepping over to investigate there was a sharp explosion.
They were trying to press a 25mm bearing on a 1" shaft -- the bearing made a sudden departure from the scene.

Bits-o-bearing were imbedded in 2 sheetrock walls and the tile ceiling, the fools escaped without a scratch, maybe a bit wiser -- maybe needing clean Fruit of the Looms.

 

Wisconsin makes stereo equipment????

 

Beats the alternative...