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Old 26th Dec 2021, 8:20 pm   #361
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Default Re: Bush DAC90 On Call The Midwife 2019 Christmas Special

Hi.
Bob they are rarely original.
I've a V4 TV chassis coming to me from a collector who was given it from BBC Scotland, they had fitted a 14 inch portable inside the cabinet, I've already got the tube and scan coils that look very much unused.
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Old 26th Dec 2021, 9:06 pm   #362
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Hi Trevor you are right the H & S police would not let anything to be used on TV unless it was PAT tested are you going to feature the V4 TV chassis when you get around to do it
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Old 26th Dec 2021, 10:20 pm   #363
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Hi Bob.
No idea. There is no cabinet and my V4 has traceable history to the early 60s. I think it'll be a donor chassis for parts TBH.
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Old 26th Dec 2021, 10:52 pm   #364
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Hi Trevor at least it keeps a good set working
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Old 27th Dec 2021, 12:31 am   #365
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If it powered up instantly then most likely a 60W lamp and bluetooth inside !

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No need for Bluetooth, they always dub the sound in the editing room.
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Old 28th Dec 2021, 11:48 am   #366
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If it powered up instantly then most likely a 60W lamp and bluetooth inside !

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I find it amusing how they go to great pains to get everything right for the period but constantly get the radios wrong.
I point this out to my wife and she tells me to shut-up!
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Old 28th Dec 2021, 1:25 pm   #367
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I don't normally take much notice, but on BBC4 last night, on a programme about the 60s, an elderly "Rocker" was playing a bass guitar through an equally elderly Murphy Baffle.
Hello,

Just came upon this thread as there has been some recent activity – thus flagging it up – however, and quite strangely, I came in at page 1 post #20 (as the above quote).

Anyway, post #20, dating back to Jan 2014, mentions an elderly "Rocker" playing a bass guitar through a Murphy Baffle Radio.

This could have been Mo Foster as in his books 17 Watts, which later became British Rock Guitar, he talks about playing his bass through a Murphy 188 Baffle Radio – there is also photo of the baffle radio in the book. Also, I feel Mo Foster could be easily described ‘respectfully’ as an elderly "Rocker"… and a mighty fine Bass player

I have made reference to Mo’s books in the recent amplifier articles in the BVWS bulletin.

Hope I’ve not veered off subject too much.

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Old 28th Dec 2021, 3:31 pm   #368
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I heard of Peter Hook using an old record player as a practice amplifier as he couldn't afford a proper bass amp.
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Old 3rd Jan 2022, 2:42 pm   #369
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Watching the 1971 film of "Dads Army" on TV during Christmas there is a Phillips 930 used as a prop when Captain Mannering and team visit a radio shop to hear a news item.

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Old 3rd Jan 2022, 5:09 pm   #370
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Here is a radio that was in the background of a TV programme. I can't remember what the name of the programme was, but it was about a man in a shed restoring something. I think it might have been china or glass.
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Default Ekco Festival of Britain model on the telly!

Did anyone else notice the rather stylish Ecko push button radio from 1951 on 'The Ipcress File' the other night? I resurrected one about 10 years ago.
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Old 15th Mar 2022, 3:16 am   #372
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err hmmm looks very like an electric fan heater.

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Old 15th Mar 2022, 7:45 am   #373
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Yes, I did. Wonderful!

Except they spoilt it ( as per usual ) by the almost immediate arrival of sound after switching it on! How can they keep getting this so wrong?


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I had one of those in the past. The tuning is 3 or 4 preset switches with indicator lamps behind the little windows on the L/H side of the speaker grille. Mine had a bad attack of woodworm and the knobs went a rather funny shape as if the plastic started to decompose!! I think I gave it to someone else!!

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Old 15th Mar 2022, 9:06 am   #375
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Spotted that last night, I have one here in my collection. All pre selected stations of course. Were they for the "Britain Can Make It" exhibition?
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Old 15th Mar 2022, 10:49 am   #376
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One for you - I wondered if you spotted the burglar police autodialer the other week in the delightful old crime show
DIAL 999?
Blimey what a contraption! Basically, the burglars broke a beam which set off a vinyl record to drop onto a platter and needle drop down and then a mechanical claw rotary dialled 999 on the phone, the record then said something like "hello Bloggs warehouse here, help!!, we are being burgled" .or something like that.
Of course, the very cool Inspector Maguire was there in 5 minutes.

Love it.
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Old 15th Mar 2022, 3:13 pm   #377
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Spotted that last night, I have one here in my collection. All pre selected stations of course. Were they for the "Britain Can Make It" exhibition?
Designed for the 1951 Festival of Britain I think.
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Old 15th Mar 2022, 9:22 pm   #378
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Did anyone else notice the rather stylish Ecko push button radio from 1951 on 'The Ipcress File' the other night? I resurrected one about 10 years ago.
Yes, I spotted that one, I have one in my collection too, nice set!
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Old 15th Mar 2022, 11:33 pm   #379
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One for you - I wondered if you spotted the burglar police autodialer the other week in the delightful old crime show
DIAL 999?
Blimey what a contraption! Basically, the burglars broke a beam which set off a vinyl record to drop onto a platter and needle drop down and then a mechanical claw rotary dialled 999 on the phone, the record then said something like "hello Bloggs warehouse here, help!!, we are being burgled" .or something like that.
Of course, the very cool Inspector Maguire was there in 5 minutes.

Love it.
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=188396

Defiantly "Fair cop guv'nor, you got me bang to rights" territory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0twYRgSQN0&t=437s
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Old 16th Mar 2022, 2:13 pm   #380
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Ref post #373 - I think most sound engineers and even directors would know that a valve radio needs to warm up. However the dramatic tension would be spoiled if everyone had to wait around for what seems like ages, so a compromise is reached.

A similar situation arises when dialling out on a telephone. I believe early films (especially American) had the dial return speeded up. The usual solution, of course, is to use a cutaway while the number is being dialled. Spare a thought for the production team - we'd be the first to complain if an STD number was reached in four or five turns of the dial!
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