themadhippy

imagine the  the revues. The audio  was excellent you could almost taste the brown sound

pretty sure ive seen phono (rca for american viewers) sockets used in the past

could you modify the  headset so the speaker is a loop,assuming there hearing aid is loop compatable

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but other spacings exist…

yea theres 1 or 2 to pick from

https://www.toby.co.uk/cable-wire-to-board/

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in one word. Genlyte.

I'd  say the decline began when strand was sold to vulture capitalist, Schroder Ventures.The sell off to genitals was just the final nail in the coffin

The bulk of the last increase wasnt an increase in the per unit charge,it was  the doubling of the daily standing charge

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our ~15yo BSS DIs appear to be failing,

In what way? had problems in the past on the 133's  with the battery clip shorting out on the circuit board,bit of tape over the clip  and no more problems.

Pulsar use here own wiring standard,pin 1 is +,so you can ignore that one,pin 2 ground,then 3 to 8 for channels 1-6.No idea how the dmux is configured but the ground from your d-mux goes to all the pin 2's on the 8 pin din,channel 1 on the d mux to pin 3 on the first 8 pin din ,channel 2 to pin  4,3 to 5,4 to 6 ,6 to 7 and channel 6 to pin 8.Channel 7 from the d mux  goes to pin 3 on the second din plug,channel  13 to pin 3 on the third 8 pin,and channel 19 to pin 3 on the forth din,I'll leave you to work the rest out

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- the terminals on 13A sockets themselves aren't rated to 63A. Generally they're also not rated to have multiple 6mm cables in the terminals. 

And it wouldn't meet the definition of an A1 ring

The regs have recently changed,so unless its fixed equipment were theirs no chance of any DC  its got to be  type A,and personally id suggest a  C curve to avoid nuisance tripping  from inrush  currents

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Another and less satisfactory alternative is send a couple of physically fit persons, one to run or cycle to the nearest fire station and the other to the nearest police station.

Lets hope all your incidents  happen when the local station is open.If its between 8pm and 7Am around here youll need a fit runner to complete the 25 + mile  journey to the nearest open station

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Unlikely to be Bletchley - looks like flat open land

Ok it wasn't agricultural but ive vague childhood memory's of sherwood drive being pretty open in the early 70's

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The "control tower"

wasnt the cia  caa  on the park in the 60's,I know they were definitely there in the 80's

Edit to add

clicking the youtube  link  after another watch and in the description

"Post Office (GPO) machine that makes planting telegraph poles much easier, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire."

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This is the rarer King version of the Simon Polecat PEU (pole erection unit) and is the only vid I can find

The venue looks suspiciously like bletchley park

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They're the thing with a wire stripper that leaves you with a mangled mess;

why bother with the stripper when theirs a perfectly good knife.

Even gets over the pozi/phillips/jis problem with interchangeable bits

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Which parts are supposed to be true?

From my own personal experience traveling through philadelphia airport in 2000, most of it.Friends accompanied us right up to the final boarding gate and security were more interested in my steeltoe caped trainers than the contents of our carry on bags.The only real "security" was the duty free we bought in the airport was delivered to us once  we were onboard the flight.

Id throw it back at the so called "electrician" and ask them to provide  the documentation that deems them a fail

syringe filled with blood,bit if pipe and maybe a one way valve.for blood push syringe

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Not the ideal desk for this application

Pah,ya should try doing it on a 200b,full 8 channel surround.Playback was the easy bit,getting the tracks in the right place on the tape was the fun part.

Pity it wasn't an old skool alarm,at best puling a wire out would bring up a fault condition(unless you had a spare end of line resistor) or more likely  set the  bells  off.

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(with about 40mm of thread buried in the softwood, it seems to hold just fine

If you've threaded the wood a drop of superglue will help strengthen the thread

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tennis ball idea, what about making some sort of blow-pipe affair out of some 25mm PVC conduit?

you've just brought back a child hood memory,the gas pipe bazooka.Couple of foot of gas pipe, a powerful spring,and tennis balls for ammo

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I thread some fairly thin paracord through a tennis ball and would throw the tennis ball over the beam and then pull the spanset over.

tree surgeon mate of mine   uses a  bow an arrow ,how much space you got between the beam and roof and how good a shot are you?

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Yes, you can do this. I

was how the old police radios worked,control in our area was at the top of the fm broadcast range,and the coppers in the field was on,from memory around 140Mhz

Is "best value" still a thing within local authoritys? was a handy way of getting around the cheapest quote mentality.

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Council employee orders £500,000 of equipment from his brother's company..." 

Essential quality's if said employee  has ambition of becoming an MP