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avocollector · 17th Apr 2021, 2:40 pm

Mixed feelings about this - OK to make things more functionable/usable/longer lasting but the 'take an old valve radio, discard the internals and put a modern solid state radio in there' is a tad too far for my taste. Why I should object to this when say restuffing an old capacitor with new internals in a valve radio is OK I don't know. But I do.

17th Apr 2021, 2:40 pm	#35
avocollector Heptode Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Posts: 653	Re: Your thoughts on modernising old tech? Mixed feelings about this - OK to make things more functionable/usable/longer lasting but the 'take an old valve radio, discard the internals and put a modern solid state radio in there' is a tad too far for my taste. Why I should object to this when say restuffing an old capacitor with new internals in a valve radio is OK I don't know. But I do.