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Old 17th May 2019, 4:44 pm   #201
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For forum purposes we regard items, falling within the scope of the forums, which are more than 20-25 years old as vintage. In addition all CRT TV's and tape recorders are regarded as vintage,
Right now, I'm watching a 2004 14" Toshiba CRT TV and also using my mid-50's Dazor 2 lamp fluorescent desk lamps.
When I get to my workshop, I'll be using my late 50's Weller soldering gun and listen to my tunes on my late 60's Teac R to R tape deck, an excellent 3 motor stereo deck.
Also watching my early 80's Zenith CRT small screen color sets.
I just finished restoring a 1938 Belmont 8 valve table radio for my collection.
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Old 17th May 2019, 4:46 pm   #202
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I saw this thread today, and noticed it wasn't closed, so I thought it might be fun to get it going again for a while, because this topic is surely always relevant.

I used this mixer today (Victoria Sponge - for which I have won prizes, don'tcha know!) bought from Boots Cookshop - remember them? - in 1987.

Its been used every week since then, and still going strong.

I admit that I use a newer, more powerful Wahl hand mixer with dough hooks when I make bread, but this little Philips is always the one I use for cakes.

So, how about you? What did you use today that less enlightened people would have consigned to the bin long ago?

OMG! I've just realised this thread is still active! I didn't read any of it before posting. So sorry, I thought it had been dormant for months!
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Old 17th May 2019, 5:05 pm   #203
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I spy a BICC low profile plug on the cable.
I used to prize those, and pinch them for my own use.replacing them with a new MK plug with Granada logo.
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Old 17th May 2019, 5:17 pm   #204
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Yes! I absolutely love those Legrand plugs - they are fitted to the appliances that I'm particularly fond of!

Am I daft, or what! But they just look SO good in a socket!

I must have about two dozen - most with insulated pins, but a couple without. I live dangerously, me!!

The mixer plug has insulated pins, by the way. My brother even had one on his electric welder, can you believe, and it didn't melt! Unlike some previous (good quality) ones, which did!
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Old 17th May 2019, 5:31 pm   #205
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… my son thinks all my electronic stuff is vintage, if not prediluvian, so where to start?
I have an idea what the word means, but I can't find it in my 2003 Webster's New World Dictionary.
Prediluvian (or sometimes antidiluvian)
Before Noah's Ark.
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Old 17th May 2019, 5:35 pm   #206
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Try the OED website, Graham.

That's what I always do when flummoxed by a word.
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Old 18th May 2019, 9:28 am   #207
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Sorry Graham! I've done it again, haven't I? Jumped in with both size nines before reading the posts properly.

I mistakenly thought it was you who couldn't find the dictionary definition
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Old 18th May 2019, 10:55 am   #208
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Prediluvian (or sometimes antidiluvian)
Before Noah's Ark.
Antediluvian, which means "before the flood" (the biblical one) ; whereas antidiluvian would mean "against the flood"!
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Old 18th May 2019, 11:11 am   #209
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Sorry gents for causing Prediluvian problems! Yes, I did mean before the flood (Biblical, Noah, etc). Either way, my son threatens the skip for all my stuff...
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Actually "prediluvian" is a pretty rare word. It's not in the big Chambers dictionary and it's not allowed in Scrabble!
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That's what I was wondering too
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Today, at the monthly session of the Wyre Forest Repair Cafe, I used one of my elderly Taylor analogue multimeters and my 1960s Henley Solon to diagnose faults and repair a number of items.
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Old 22nd May 2019, 6:35 am   #214
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We were listening to our RCA Victor 45X11 on Sunday evening when having tea, it's a 1939 AA5 set running on 110V from a small isolating transformer, and on an almost daily basis our Morphy Richards Clydon door chimes, c1950s.

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Hello and good morning .
Radio 4 L/W on my McMichael's 365 from 1936.


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Bit of an echo in here.

And more than one Ekco.

I use a Psion 3a (1993) pretty much daily.

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Hello and good morning.

From 6 AM today Tony Blackburn on Radio 2 FM on my 1956 Telefunken Concritno 6.

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Old 25th May 2019, 7:26 pm   #218
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Its funny how the word "vintage" seems to apply to much more recent items now.
No so long ago Vintage was only used to describe items from the 1920's, such as windup gramophones.
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We have our own definition here. For instance all CRT televisions count. That should widen the scope a bit.
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I raise you a JVC Videosphere from 1972.

As featured in 2001 Space odyssey, watching the film on it now
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