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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #180 on: August 17, 2007, 05:29:47 PM »



Radios and fire :clap:
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« Reply #181 on: August 18, 2007, 05:16:31 AM »

That is so fucking cool.
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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #182 on: August 18, 2007, 09:52:56 AM »
That is an aluminum melt with propane I made ingots out of some scrap I had
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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #183 on: August 18, 2007, 11:07:42 AM »
I'm into fire, but the radio is what caught my attention. I used to have an old Blaupunkt. I'm not sure what happened to it. I think it may be in my brothers barn. It was huge heavy beast with a remote power supply.

It had all the bands available to the public, but I never had a decent antenna tower. It was when the CB craze hit in the seventies, but as always, I went several steps farther than what others were doing.
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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #184 on: August 18, 2007, 11:22:59 AM »
The radio is from the lend lease program in WW2 It was supposed to go in a medium tank
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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #185 on: August 18, 2007, 03:41:56 PM »
I also collect military items and tubes

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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #186 on: August 18, 2007, 05:59:30 PM »

That is one awesome tube. Is it a broadcast tube?
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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #187 on: August 18, 2007, 06:22:26 PM »
Too many of these to post, I love photography. But I love this website at the moment;

http://www.redbubble.com/

And I love lighthouses so these are my favourites;

http://www.redbubble.com/search/find/lighthouse




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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #188 on: August 18, 2007, 06:47:58 PM »

That is one awesome tube. Is it a broadcast tube?

I'm pretty sure,  it's from a local AM station I got it from an estate sale at one of their former engineers.
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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #189 on: August 19, 2007, 12:07:08 AM »
The radio is from the lend lease program in WW2 It was supposed to go in a medium tank

I thought it looked like old military grade.

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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #190 on: August 19, 2007, 03:01:47 AM »
I like escalators and lifts and seeing who makes them. I know of Schindler, Otis & Kone and Thyssenkrupp.



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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #191 on: August 19, 2007, 05:34:28 AM »

That is one awesome tube. Is it a broadcast tube?

I'm pretty sure,  it's from a local AM station I got it from an estate sale at one of their former engineers.
Interesting!
An old co-hobbyist I knew collected enormous tubes also, but all of his stuff was from ships. His radar tubes were impressive - you would have loved them!

He had made a small power supply for an old ship based radar tube and kept it as a "nightlight" lamp. It let out yellowish light from the bottom and an eerie purple and ultraviolet glow from the top. It was the coolest lamp I ever saw. The, almost two feet tall, piece of glass made quite a statement, too. Even though it was non-functional as a radar tube, he estimated that the power level he was using, it should last for over one hundred years as a lamp.

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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #192 on: August 25, 2007, 07:12:19 AM »

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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #193 on: August 25, 2007, 03:27:22 PM »
More radios and TV's

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Re: Post pictures of your obsessions
« Reply #194 on: August 25, 2007, 04:15:10 PM »
Costume movies!

A recent obsession ...
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