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G6Tanuki · 15th Dec 2018, 8:16 pm

Today, as well as the previously-discussed Roberts R606/R707, in late-afternoon I listened to some jazz on Radio3 using my Bush VHF81, and now I'm using my late father's Teleton GT-202 FM tuner (dating from the 1970s) to listen to a weak-and-as-yet-unidentified pirate station around 103MHz. It's playing through a homebrew stereo amplifier [a pair of 6BR7 and a pair of 6BW6 - I guess something liks 6W per channel driven hard] I built a while back using the mains-transformer and output-transformers from a scrapped radiogram chassis.

Also today, I've used a "King Dick" adjustable spanner and a 'Parasene' paraffin-powered blowlamp to do some plumbing work - which involved legacy 1/2-inch copper pipes.

15th Dec 2018, 8:16 pm	#69
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 14,005	Re: What vintage equipment did you actually use today? Today, as well as the previously-discussed Roberts R606/R707, in late-afternoon I listened to some jazz on Radio3 using my Bush VHF81, and now I'm using my late father's Teleton GT-202 FM tuner (dating from the 1970s) to listen to a weak-and-as-yet-unidentified pirate station around 103MHz. It's playing through a homebrew stereo amplifier [a pair of 6BR7 and a pair of 6BW6 - I guess something liks 6W per channel driven hard] I built a while back using the mains-transformer and output-transformers from a scrapped radiogram chassis. Also today, I've used a "King Dick" adjustable spanner and a 'Parasene' paraffin-powered blowlamp to do some plumbing work - which involved legacy 1/2-inch copper pipes.