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Old 13th Dec 2018, 9:12 pm   #101
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You can always use the dash side for dots for slower speeds too. Does a "learning" electronic keyer exist? One that follows your keying speed to make lovely morse.
 
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Vibroplex... Hilarious to watch, awful to use. Though some people love 'em. Shiny collectibles I suppose.

I have three paddles: Kent, Lamco and 'Skoda'.
Straight keys: RAF type D is my usual one, but there's a grey NATO one, two versions of the GW slate base ones and a Spanish miniature around the place.

I guess steampunks are naturally drawn to brassware.

Up-thread a bit, at post 91, I see someone's even fitted a bulb and holder to Aitor's emoji !


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What a bright idea........ Clearly the result of one of those moments

Got a smile from me, anyway.
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Old 20th Dec 2018, 6:41 pm   #104
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kestrelmusic: Is the lamp completely independent of the radio? I was wondering if the lamp somehow was included as part of the dropper. It is a very good case. Do I also see a Muirhead slow-motion dial & Marconi knobs?
A very interesting version of the same sort of circuit that was in the kit radios of way back then.
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Old 27th Dec 2018, 12:25 pm   #105
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It's interesting to note that users of Etsy are now offering for sale significant numbers of 'oldies' in their original form, ie unadulterated equipment. The prices are predictably high, and do seem to indicate that the items are intended as curios rather than raw material for drill bandits- if their sales demographic was the latter, there would be no profit margin in steampunking.

A fluid situation as always- one never knows what will be fashionable next.

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Strangely enough I sold my two incomplete AVO's over Christmas for decent money on eBay. The few lamps I made from various (broken) things are still here...A few bits and pieces I have sold in the past ended up as curios in theme pubs.
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Seems radios are also going this way this one popped up on gumtree
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Dear Lord, I've seen some stupid looking things in my time, but that really takes the biscuit!!
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Of course, you are right!!
 
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AVO lamps, a wasteful destruction of a British engineering icon, and they look
dreadful.
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..This Model D hasn't been steampunked, it's sort of.....well, been pimped.
Oversize casing screws, oversize feet, Tippexed and painted facia, P & Q knobs replaced with non-standard items (Why bother with the Q knob..?)
The less said about the scale plate and instruction plate the better- they are very odd indeed. Incidentally i am not casting any aspersions here- many of us will have been in the situation of coming into ownership of something that we want to part with at the earliest opportunity...and this could well be the case here.

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I have just seen a Model D that has been table-lamped and internally illuminated. For some reason this treatment of a WW2 meter has done something that others have not; it's made me properly annoyed. Of course if the price tag was sensible I would consider buying it and converting it back; but the price tag is way too high. I appreciate that this cannot be stopped, it's not widely considered heinous like chopping down oak trees, but I felt I had to flag it up as to me it represents a new 'low'.

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Old 13th Feb 2019, 11:42 pm   #113
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The steam punk lovers will not stop destroying devices. Here in Gran Canaria, a few months ago someone opened a shop about industrial items, with "a new use", i visited it a few weeks ago and it is a pity certain machines or even furniture with a "modern" look....
 
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I got my AVO Series 4 from Etsy as the leather case caught my eye in a sidebar. On enquiry, I discovered the AVO in shot was only intended by the seller as a prop for the 'vintage' (urgh) case! She was happy to include the meter itself for the cost of postage...

I find the 'Steampunking' of things quite sad simply because there's very little imagination that goes into it. A witty or intelligent re-purposing of the switches and dials to go with the lamp would show an understanding of the circuit and some sympathy with the original function. Sticking a bulb on top just makes a very inefficient lampstand.

The aspect of steampunk that appeals is that of things made from 'proper' materials, an electromechanical action and technology that is large enough and just simple enough to understand. I think that's the appeal of the steam engine over the internal combustion engine. A delight for all the senses.

My brother recently repurposed something in a similar idiom - we had an old undistinguished wooden table lamp, which he altered to have a glass globe shade supported by a brass tripod, with a copper pipe spiralling around the wooden column. Circuitry inside the pedestal allowed any part of the copper pipe to be the touch-sensitive on/off switch. It had some of the mystery and magic of the technology in a Jules Verne story, which is probably the genius loci of Steampunk.
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I do not understand how some brains work....
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Certainly a load of cobblers

i have repurposed my cobblers last too. as a doorstop.

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A lamp in anything, where will this go...
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I fear we've not seen the last of this sort of junk.

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A lamp in anything, where will this go...
Sorry, I couldn’t resist

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That looks a bit perilous. I'm sticking with my standard lamp.

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