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27th Mar 2022, 1:15 pm | #1 |
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Discarded chassis recognition...
Seen on a steep bank half a mile from home, to the side of a path that runs beneath a road: does anyone happen to know what it's from? "Motor supply" is printed by one (or two?) of the several sockets, so presumably a stereo record player / radiogram / music centre. Could be some parts of use to someone, it's fairly free of rust so can't have been there long, but I'm not sure whether I could readily retrieve it.
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27th Mar 2022, 1:32 pm | #2 |
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Re: Discarded chassis recognition...
Philips by the look of the components and construction style?
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27th Mar 2022, 6:11 pm | #3 |
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Re: Discarded chassis recognition...
It has got old style battery plugs and sockets on it.
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27th Mar 2022, 7:40 pm | #4 |
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Re: Discarded chassis recognition...
Yes, used by Hacker, Pye and others for mains, HT, pick-up and audio connections internally in the 50s and 60s.
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27th Mar 2022, 8:04 pm | #5 |
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Re: Discarded chassis recognition...
I was curious as to what a different view might reveal, so approached the spot via the track below, but the scramble up the bank to reach it would have been just a little too treacherous. Maybe tomorrow I'll go that way with a walking stick and see if I've reach enough from the pavement above to give it a good shove down the bank for easy examination... then either remove a few potentially useful bits or help clean up the town by parking the whole lump in our attic.
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27th Mar 2022, 10:51 pm | #6 |
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I thought that it had a bit of a Dynatron look about it so did a quick Google search and came up with this thread on the Dynatron HFC52
https://theartofsound.net/forum/show...52-with-L78-TT which shows a very similar set of internals to the ones in your photos. |
27th Mar 2022, 11:09 pm | #7 |
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Very similar indeed: thanks and congratulations James, it must at least be a close relative. And, via Ekco, Dynatron were by then a part of Philips, though the Dynatron name was later dealt to Roberts. I thought I saw a pair of separate small sub-chassis each with a power transistor, as pictured there, when I first spotted the remains, but couldn't make them out yesterday when taking the photos.
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27th Mar 2022, 11:39 pm | #8 |
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I think it's part of the SA29 chassis. There's a module on one of the PCBs which deals with the stereo sound, that's failed on mine, it'd be great if that could be pulled for my player. I'm not 100% sure where it is or what it looks like as I was told about it, rather than finding out for myself. I believe it's black, in mine anyway, it could well be different colours on different units.
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28th Mar 2022, 8:20 am | #9 |
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Those four-way plugs and sockets are always useful.
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28th Mar 2022, 10:59 am | #10 |
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Ah well: surveying the scene with a view to possibly retrieving the remains, I'd need a twelve foot pole to give them a solid push down the slope to an accessible position. I might be confident enough to scramble up to them from below, but it's getting down again that would present too high a risk of a trip to A&E. Apologies then to '77, it looks as though the whole thing is doomed to decay in-situ for probably the next twenty years or more. Now that I know what it is the pair of output chassis and the toroidal mains transformer are easy enough to spot. If a couple of our enterprising teenage members happened to live nearby I'm sure they would contrive a way to get the thing... oh, except we hardly have any teenage members...
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28th Mar 2022, 11:17 am | #11 |
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Could you poke it down with a line prop, fishing rod or long garden cane? Two garden canes gaffer taped together? Obviously, don't put yourself at any risk.
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28th Mar 2022, 11:27 am | #12 |
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Hmm... I can't think of anything I could readily take there. We had a nice pair of extending metal clothes line props in the NE, but didn't bring them with us to a first floor flat where hanging laundry out is forbidden, and I doubt they would have been long enough anyway (though, yes, taped together, that would suffice). Full (simple) directions available by PM of course to anyone local who fancies the challenge.
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28th Mar 2022, 1:11 pm | #13 |
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Break out the grappling hook!
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28th Mar 2022, 2:30 pm | #14 |
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Re: Discarded chassis recognition...
More importantly - is there a Lenco turntable lurking in the bushes somewhere?
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28th Mar 2022, 8:36 pm | #15 |
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Do you know, I'm actually quite tempted to give that a go. It could take a few minutes' "fishing", but would surely bring the items, or most of them, down in the end, even if a plug or two were pulled out first. We don't have a grappling hook, but I'm sure if we did it would come in useful for... something else...
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29th Mar 2022, 6:20 am | #16 | |
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Quote:
Just make sure you know how to get to A&E...
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30th Mar 2022, 1:04 pm | #17 |
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I have just realized it is the chassis and not the beer can we are trying to identify.. J.
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30th Mar 2022, 11:31 pm | #18 |
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Re: Discarded chassis recognition...
If you can fish those modules out, I'd be interested in them as I'm going to design a modern version which hopefully will be a bit more reliable. Some of the transistors are obsolete as are the connectors.
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31st Mar 2022, 10:18 am | #19 |
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You can make a 'grappling hook' from a couple of wire coathangers. Very useful things, wire coathangers.
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31st Mar 2022, 12:17 pm | #20 |
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Re: Discarded chassis recognition...
Maybe a powerful canal-fishing magnet? Les.
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