uxwbill

Maker of videos on Youtube (and formerly Vimeo). Electronics hobbyist and tinkerer in general. Debating what comes next with regard to activity here.

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It's been fun, but with all the changes here and for other reasons, I've decided that it is time to move on. In that vein and after a few false starts, I've started a blog.

https://t.co/EDTfqNouNH

Let me know what you think.

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This Panasonic radio really wasn't built with repair in mind. Getting the circuit board out was difficult.

I tell you this mainly because I was intrigued by the use of a spring to keep the speaker in place. Unlike adhesive, it'd never fail and it probably damps some resonance.

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After that, I gave the SK-1 a good cleaning. The speaker grille in particular was pretty gross. While not perfect, it is a million times better than it was.

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I finally got around to undoing the awful hacked in hardwired power adapter modification on my Casio SK-1 keyboard. Now it runs from batteries like it should.

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Just a few more mixtapes...looking forward to playing them on the drive home, as I often don't hear what I want from the radio as of late.

(I had to redo the one from 5/13 due to "technical issues." Yes, the inside of the J-card is fully filled out on both.)

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This is one of Naughty Truck's factory-installed spark plugs after 248,500 miles of driving.

(Please accept my apologies for the iPhone's continued belief that proper focus happens only to pictures from other cameras.)

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For those wondering why this was reposted: editing is a "rewording" activity. 😃 Grammar is apparently something that happens to other people.

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I've started to forget about my back catalogue of videos! After digging up a Panasonic RF-560 radio and giving the volume control a cleaning it has desperately needed for years, I thought I'd make a video...only I already did!

https://t.co/fbYoIJhi9C

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It probably means something that a nearly 40 year old Ultrx RD C21 cassette deck running on all of its original parts is running closer to the correct speed (1 kHz > 985-990 Hz) than two Panasonic RX-D55 boomboxes (935-965 Hz).

By comparison, a Sony CFD-S70 is dead on correct.

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I won't deny I'm still kind of tempted to do exactly that.

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On one of my clock radio videos, someone posted a comment asking "what does music do?"

Before I realized they were probably talking of the "music" position on the alarm switch, and as further proof I'm a terrible person, I was going to answer "opens a transdimensional portal".

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@lmull3 Cancel that, looks like you found what I remember seeing. I'd definitely make sure someone didn't pop an incompatible CPU in there.

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@lmull3 The desktops and towers originally had a legend inside explaining what all the LED colors and blinking meant, if it's still intact. As best I remember, a red power light can be a bad, missing or incompatible CPU or a CPU power supply failure.

Can check mine later.

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@Sansui350A It certainly seems so. That said, I've only used the Dolby B capability. I don't use Dolby C very often, though I may test it on this deck. I will certainly test its dbx capabilities.

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Late Saturday morning, I rescued an "Ultrx RD C21" cassette deck from a local junk shop. Ultrx was a short lived higher end audio equipment brand from Sanyo.

I tested, cleaned and tested it again. Amazingly, the original rubber parts seem OK. Then I made a mixtape!

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@shaunspeers2604 I found an enormous cache of them some years ago. It's really good tape, or at least it has been for me, despite Maxell's branding it as "voice grade".

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I remain unqualified for adulthood: last night, my mother and I were talking when suddenly a rather large bat *rocketed* through the kitchen and back out to the inner porch.

Both of us nearly jumped out of our skin and I'd hate to think what my heart rate and blood pressure did.

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Snappy answers to stupid questions...🤣

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I'm glad the days are getting longer. I'm not sure how much longer I could have handled the increasingly idiotic headlight design in modern vehicles, nor the clowns who install stadium lamps in their pavement queen.

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Have a Murray Chrysler and a Hyundai New Year! (Or whatever you may celebrate around this time of year.)

Yes, I love playing around with the language.🙂 (I thought about using "Nubira" instead of "New Year", but that was a Daewoo model that about three people remember.)