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My parents had a record player and around 50 records growing up. I assume they still have them. My favorite one was C.W. McCall, he had some good songs but my favorite is Convoy.

 

I have about 300 albums in my attic. No one's touched them in 25 years.

 

One of the last shows I did before leavin’ the biz. Not gonna lie that I don’t miss it sometimes. The money, not so much.

 

I thought I would put some of them on CD, I had a fellow build me a computer that was capable of doing that -- it ran Windows Millennium Edition...

 

That was 3 phase wasn’t it

 

This album is a road trip essential, I had it on cassette, CD & Ipod.

 

i had a student when i was active duty, i showed him an important/common panel, its location, whats under it, etc. At least 3 times prob more. The other students got its location after the first time. This guy still acted like i never showed him or talked about it ever...i was close to hurting him. Few months later after the class was completed someone on flightline working with him asks me if i ever showed him the panel...i told him the story and he say "oh that explains it all."

 

No way I could ever afford the stuff I wanted back then. Today just finding it hard enough. Still kickin’ myself for selling all my repair gear. With good electronics gettin’ scarce, might just look into it.

 

I have a timing gun...

 

Can’t conceal that Rascal

 

I prob could rob a bank with it and todays kids wouldnt know what it was

 

Some don’t fire on all cylinders. Fact that.

 

Years ago I tried to train a guy like that, I was showing him how to handle machine stops, basically get everything back to home and restart, just a procedure nothing more.

Nice fellow, polite, he paid attention, repeated things back to me perfectly assuring me he understood and was able to do all the steps hands on just fine.... And the next day couldn't seem to remember a thing. Again and again.

I finally went to the boss, explained the situation and suggested he try someone else. He did, several actually, the guy finally asked for a demotion as he was going to get one anyway.

 

I knew it...

 

I think mine is Stewart Warner I bought it in 1975

The first time I used to the clamp slide down into the exhaust and melted still works to this day.

My mideightes still need timed

 

If it doesnt have at least one melt mark, it was never used...

 

When I was a kid my "stereo" was a hodgepodge of junk I had scavenged from curbside cleanup.

The amplifier was from a Philco portable record player, the speakers from a junked console and screwed to plywood sitting on 5 gallon pails for an enclosure.
The turn table was a K-mart grade BSR made from 3 different broken ones. I also had a mono to stereo plug that plugged into the earphone jack of a LLoyds portable 8 track player. (The term boom box hadn't been invented yet.

My first real stereo was an solid state RCA console built in 1968, not the last word in fidelity but quite loud, I paid $35 for it at an estate sale. (they had value back then)

As a (younger) adult I compensated by buying all kinds of now old (mid-fi) stereo stuff and finally came to the realization that you can't use it all...

If I can fix it with Caig Deoxit -- I can fix it , beyond that -- well no .

 

Yes the good old cobbled together sound system!!

I think that is almost a rite of passage as building your favorite brand Muscle Car

 

I have 4-5 kicking around including my original one my mom got me for Christmas when I was about 14. (from Montgomery-Ward)