Time to Get Electrical

[Nitro]

That was a very interesting read ! Thank you

Thank you!

That image exists as a part of a filing system we used where we not only took pix of the product, but also the setups we used.
There were many fixtures what were a part of a numbered system that were acceptable for holding various JIC fittings for when we needed held to customize them or even machine ones completely out of raw stock.
My Father, one brother and I all share eidetic memories, so recollection by imagery is already our thing.
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I don't want to appear as hijacking your thread, but here is a brief outline on some of what goes on in or around my hobby machineshop:

https://www.autismforums.com/media/albums/the-machine-shop-area.501/

 

[Nitro]

68 At Ping Young Motors

about one month before the roof chop

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Green highlights the door frame
Blue denotes the lock cylinder that came out of the door
(the shop truck was in a perpetual state of customization)
Orange points to the piano hinge on the aluminum door.
The truck went further on to include a handmade custom grille, a filled tailgate, altered lighting systems, a 3" chop and lowering.
Note that there are no visible lugnuts on the Jeep Wagoneer aluminum wheels
I lost pretty much every image of my past when a box of several thousand analog emulsion film images I set on a shop floor to head home with me the next day and their negatives were lost during a 100 year flood.
What little images I have of those days were are all scans of instamatic and Polaroids that have been handed to me by others.
There are no existing images of my '68 Formula 400 Pontiac Firebird, the '67 Chevy Camaro RS ragtop or my '68 Formula S Plymouth Barracuda.
My brother has one image of my '72 Pontiac Get Tools Out 455 ragtop sitting behind one of his earlier rides but he has yet to scan it for me.

68 At Ping Young Motors

about one month before the roof chop

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[Nitro]

sometimes you have to make it custom

Replacement fittings were needed for a friend's custom Triumph to reroute the fuel lines away from his exhaust...I made these dull to boot to look vintage...the next day

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[Luca]

I have always been terrible at building stuff, but I bought some studio lighting and put it together on my own yesterday
I still usually need to hire people to do furniture though...

 

[Nitro]

I've just been going through some of my retro computers and just found my trusty old CPC 464 flashes it's LED and trips out it's 5v supply. I hadn't planned on doing any repairs and my "work bench" isn't super organized like yours but it looks like it's time to roll up my sleeves and get to work.

I hadn't looked at the inside of the machine since I was maybe 18 (much longer ago than I want to admit). But there was some damn weird soldering I had done on an unpopulated IC footprint. It was so hamfisted it must have been at least two decades ago. I don't think that's the problem though. I suspect the cassette unit has gone bad. Besides, I cleaned up the offensive soldering and it's still not working.

This might actually be one situation where a capacitor is actually to blame! But I wont know until I power up the main board with the cassette unit out of circuit.

I've made my thoughts about indiscriminate "re-capping" known on the muttering thread lol!

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A PC

This dinosaur was found in the original box with the power supply. They could be daisy chained with peripherals that could take up an entire desktop.

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[Storm Hess]

I love it, but have no place to work at the moment. Will start back again when I can find a workspace.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

May favorite thing to work on , it is a 1968 Wurlitzer 200a . Also my favorite instrument to play In bands .It requires maintenance and repairs from time to time. Because it is so old .

It is all mechanical portable piano . All real wood and capacitors and transistors. No digital components. View attachment 91273

I have a 1990s synthesizer/keyboard. It is my wonderful joy. I would never take it apart to work on it!

But I'm jealous of your 1960s beauty. It's giving me "The Doors" vibes.

 

[Moogwizard]

I have a 1990s synthesizer/keyboard. It is my wonderful joy. I would never take it apart to work on it!

But I'm jealous of your 1960s beauty. It's giving me "The Doors" vibes.

Nice do you remember the name of your synth ?
Oh yeah The Doors , Ray Manzarek used a very similar electric piano Called a Fender Rhodes on “ Riders on the Storm “

You have a really good eye to catch that! . The Wurlitzer and Rhodes were in direct competition for sales in the 1960s

I actually play Riders on the Storm on mine all the time to warm up ! I really like the doors too . Especially the song “ The Crystal Ship “ and “ Waiting For the Sun”

Here is the one Ray liked to Use

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Nice do you remember the name of your synth ?
Oh yeah The Doors , Ray Manzarek used a very similar electric piano Called a Fender Rhodes on “ Riders on the Storm “

You have a really good eye to catch that! . The Wurlitzer and Rhodes were in direct competition for sales in the 1960s

I actually play Riders on the Storm on mine all the time to warm up ! I really like the doors too . Especially the song “ The Crystal Ship “ and “ Waiting For the Sun”

Here is the one Ray liked to UseView attachment 91465

A Casio something or other. It's in a box until my art and music room (aka the repurposed den/dining room) is all set up.

 

[MildredHubble]

Sounds fun ! Oh yeah old capacitors prone to failure and leaking . I will check out you thread on Re- capping

Found the little blighter! First one I suspected too! Computer now beep boop beep beep boop! By the way, that's glue, not capacitor juice in case anyone is wondering!

 

[Moogwizard]

Found the little blighter! First one I suspected too! Computer now beep boop beep beep boop! By the way, that's glue, not capacitor juice in case anyone is wondering!

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Bodacious! Good job . Fairly cheap fix except for your time .

 

[MildredHubble]

Bodacious! Good job . Fairly cheap fix except for your time .

Thanks! It was fairly uneventful, not quite the adventure I was expecting. Once I saw the position of the capacitor on the board, it was an educated guess and a quick check with the multimeter.

I would need to double check, but I'm fairly sure that it was there to soak up spikes/back feeding from the cassette motor. So it could have been getting zapped a lot over the years.

I replaced it with a salvaged capacitor from another board. It's been checked before I stored it so I know it's good and probably will be for another 37 years!

 

[Moogwizard]

Thanks! It was fairly uneventful, not quite the adventure I was expecting. Once I saw the position of the capacitor on the board, it was an educated guess and a quick check with the multimeter.

I would need to double check, but I'm fairly sure that it was there to soak up spikes/back feeding from the cassette motor. So it could have been getting zapped a lot over the years.

Good assessment.

I replaced it with a salvaged capacitor from another board. It's been checked before I stored it so I know it's good and probably will be for another 37 years!

That’s Even better !