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@Electronics Visions 1960s I was walking along a Arkansas Road where there was High Tension Power Lines on then & The Electricity Spoke to me, to wit: They were captured and forced to Run Back & Forward by Humans. They showed me On Power Poles Yellow Creatures Running Back & Again (Same as Saw Tooth in Oscillator) further more From the Ground in front of me an the Road Electric Ground ""Demons"" popped from the Ground to impress me of the Truth, these were the Earth Ground. Not a Dream, I was Alive, 15 Years old, in Benton, Arkansas, when I often had visions and such.
Used to drink in the Star in the 70's, it was wild back then! The toilets were referred to as the 'office' where dodgy transactions would take place. Anton Hartfree, Dave Neville, Diggs Andrew Holcroft, Frank Stokes, Dave Nugent...
Street's was a proper hardware shop, scent of paraffin as you entered. Staff wearing brown linen shop coats. Myriad fixtures and fittings in those dark hardboard-faced drawers. Upstairs was all gardening stuff. What a loss.
Beign a kid in the 80s, the tail end years of the Cold War, Reagan, everything was just a time i could never describe to my ex step kids. Great times in my life.
Judged by the comments, I seem to be one of the oldest here? I remember listening to european and global stations, SW-MW-LW, during day and night time, in the 60s - this was when the Beatles appeared. Agreed, it was a great time, something the present generations will find hard to appreciate...
Installed a 120 foot wire antenna in the attic. Great reception yes, but strong stations like VOA and Radio Canada, overwhelmed whatever mb they were broadcasting on. And if i used poorly shielded guitar cords in would hear both stations thru a bass guitar amp.
Yes mate havant. I see you're into dx'ing.. I have a scanner and like to have a listen. Not sure if you're into amateur radio. I got back into the CB during COVID. We are always on the 14 on a Tuesday night. Yankee foxtrot net.
I think Southern do still have a few of these around - I often see them at Havant station when travelling down from London to visit the family. No mistaking their loud compressor sound
Back here looking at the bare board. I think I may need to build something similar soon for testing. I can build kits but without a decent obstacle course I will never really know how well they perform. I see that originally the board folded and that you have used a special hinge. How stable was this if it was to be folded and unfolded often? Also how deep is the side fascia? I see it extends above the track level to protect it but it also is surprisingly deep. I assume its covering a sub frame of some sort. Sorry for the barrage of questions...
Not a problem, the board was made for me. I can take some photos under it if you like? There are two large pins that engage as you open the layout out as well as two bolts that go through nearby. The hinges seem very strong but a complete pain on top as you can't use the space lol
@@MikesMovies That would be very helpful thanks. I'm not too worried about the hinges being visible as it will be a non scenic test track. It's just to test transitions from a curve to a straight or a point really but would need to fold away as space is currently too limited for a permanent layout save for my little inglenook. Was it made by a commercial company or cheeky off the books railway workshop job?
A really excellent video. A history of Southern Electric and, yes, I did watch to the very end. Superbly filmed as always. I've watched this several times and will come back to it again. Lovely models including your dad's 2BILs.
I miss these stations and the wide variety of SW broadcasts that enriched my life. Shortwave gave me the opportunity to understand and respect a wide range of political opinions...and of course to DX the tropical bands. It cost Canadians 38 cents a year for Radio Canada international...but they shut it down regardless. As a Canadian it broke my heart.
I agree with you that a quid each sounds pretty expensive. Although I suppose that using 2 briquettes means 2 quid for 8 hours of heat, which doesn't seem terrible. And I guess the price drops the more you buy. Your video certainly got me thinking about giving night briquettes a go in my my own stove, so thanks for that.
Thanks. it's worth a try to see how they work for you. We've settled on 5 hours reliable heat, but what they do really well is completely burn everything down so that you get no bits of charcoal and just fine ash.
I’m from Romania and way back in the day, I’ve had couple of classmates in my high school from what it used to be Yugoslavia. The language sounds eerily familiar like Yugoslavian, or close enough. Nm, the dx835 hit the nail on its head! I haven’t read the comment before posting mine.
7:51 Pretty sure the loops along each side on the top were a later development to allow for more secure fastenings. And as per another commenter saying the Oxford Rail one is modeling the earlier paint scheme it would be correct to have no loops. However if you want the loops Oxford Rail did do one WW2 version with them. Not sure what the serial number was but on the side it’s Warwell number 76 on loan to the S.R. it didn’t however come with a die cast Sherman load.
@@MikesMovies hi, I checked out your other channel and it’s very informative, I subscribed. I really like military stuff and the crossover with trains so your videos on the Bachmann 2-8-0 ROD were very informative. I especially love how you delve into the history of the engine. Planning on watching your longer video on Tanker wagons as I’ve seen a Bachmann MOS one in some of your trains and I’d like to get one to run in my WW2 train, and I’d like to learn it’s history and if it’s prototypical first. Also I like the occasional shot you throw in where the camera is on the truck behind the locomotive, or on a parallel track, giving a realistic shot of an in scale person.
Hello, Mike! Thank you for taking the time to review our product and reading the provided instructions (most people don’t, unfortunately). We’ve been iterating on Night Briquettes for almost a decade now in order to ensure the longest possible and most consistent burn. It’s a great pleasure to see the fruits of this labour in a positive customer experience!
Hi Guys, great to hear from you and I'm glad you liked the review. I'd certainly like to see the production process if you ever get time, I think it would make a great video. I approached these with some skepticism :) finding it hard to believe anything that small could burn for that long. Delighted with the results and will be adding them to our wood stock for the future. Regards Mike
When I first came across coffee logs I was very keen to try them, as I thought they'd fill the house (or the patio, if a used them in the fire pit) with a lovely ground coffee aroma. I was bittery disappointed... Nice stove you have there.
As a boy my father used to build wireless transmitters and transmitters (valve technology in those days); sadly most of what I learned has long been forgotten. However, whilst there used to be interference issues back then suspect it was nothing like today!
