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Were you in diapers yet when we had
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... as the marque junque?
How about
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... before they were .com?
I forgot to mention that I have a 1920’s era Emerson Bakelite/Catalin bullet radio I purchased back in my twenties from a movie prop rental company—only because I was big into Art Deco back then. It still works, but only accesses spooky AM stations and between channels I think you can hear spectral communications from ghosts and extraterrestrials.

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Might even be valuable for microphonic tube gear ?


I thought you ran tubes, their self heating ;)
Footers could help with tube microphonics for sure if the vibration disturbing the tubes is coming from the surface the equipment is sitting on. If a tube is being vibrated by loudly played sound hitting the tube itself, then footers will likely not help with microphonics much. Some type of tube damper applied directly to the tube itself could help, maybe.
 
I forgot to mention that I have a 1920’s era Emerson Bakelite/Catalin bullet radio I purchased back in my twenties from a movie prop rental company—only because I was big into Art Deco back then. I still works, but only accesses spooky AM stations and between channels I think you can hear spectral communications from ghosts and extraterrestrials.

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Gorgeous (and oh-so-collectible, too).
Yes, of course, it's a broadcast-band AM radio (only). The clever marketing ploy of making it look like a it's a two-band radio is achieved by including both the frequency (in the ever popular, at least in the US, units of "x10 kHz" ;)) and wavelength (in those Commie* units of"meters"... why they didn't use, you know, furlongs or something, I'll never know) on the dial. :facepalm:

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* Just making a wry "Cold War-era" allusion to reflect some Americans' sentiments in those times -- with no disrespect meant to any Communists, Marxists, socialists, etc. who are reading this thread. :cool:
 
Gorgeous (and oh-so-collectible, too).
Yes, of course, it's a broadcast-band AM radio (only). The clever marketing ploy of making it look like a it's a two-band radio is achieved by including both the frequency (in the ever popular, at least in the US, units of "x10 kHz" ;)) and wavelength (in those Commie* units of"meters"... why they didn't use, you know, furlongs or something, I'll never know) on the dial. :facepalm:

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* Just making a wry "Cold War-era" allusion to reflect some Americans' sentiments in those times -- with no disrespect meant to any Communists, Marxists, socialists, etc. who are reading this thread. :cool:
Oh that one was just a “prototype” I pulled off Google images. The one I actually own below is way cooler in my humble view! :)

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Gorgeous (and oh-so-collectible, too).
Yes, of course, it's a broadcast-band AM radio (only). The clever marketing ploy of making it look like a it's a two-band radio is achieved by including both the frequency (in the ever popular, at least in the US, units of "x10 kHz" ;)) and wavelength (in those Commie* units of"meters"... why they didn't use, you know, furlongs or something, I'll never know) on the dial. :facepalm:

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* Just making a wry "Cold War-era" allusion to reflect some Americans' sentiments in those times -- with no disrespect meant to any Communists, Marxists, socialists, etc. who are reading this thread. :cool:
Did I also mention that I own an original Rock-O-La 1946 jukebox?

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Or, indeed, hopefully europeans.

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Interesting historical point that the metric system was conceived in France in 1790 after the revolution (damned those anti royalist French) just a small number of years after the Declaration of Independence by the US (damned those anti royalist yanks) :rolleyes:
 
Or, indeed, hopefully europeans.

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Good point -- I'm behind enemy lines over here, you know?
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And then there are car tires (or tyres, if you prefer). My car takes 225R-17 tires: yup, that's 225 mm tread width, and 17 inch wheels.
;)
:facepalm:

EDIT: I am pretty sure that Big Ruler is behind the US's cleaving to the Imperialist Imperial system of units! ;)
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You know, I am just sitting here musing about the precision* of a measurement (ostensibly) presented in the media as "roughly the size of six or seven" washing machines. Our washing machine is 27 inches, umm, I mean ,about 67.8 cm wide.
6 x 67.8 cm = 406.8 cm
7 x 67.8 cm = 474.6 cm

so... the hole is 440.7 cm +/- 15.4% wide (or long, as the case may be)
We can determine the location of a cell phone within inches (or whatever ;)) -- but +/- 15% is the best we can do to measure a fricking four-ish meter long hole in a road?
"ROUGHLY"
?!?

There is no hope for civilization. No wonder folks can sell audiophiles a box of rocks to ground their system. :facepalm:

Where is are MIT and Oliver Smoot when we need 'em?

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OK, definitely time for more coffee!

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EDIT: I am pretty sure that Big Ruler is behind the US's cleaving to the Imperialist Imperial system of units! ;)

I'm glad we still use the better system here. Inches are useful more often than centimeters and millimeters. Feet are useful more often than meters. Yards work fine instead of meters. The same with miles. This is a big country. Kilometers are too small. Our signs would need to be bigger to handle all those digits.

The same goes for Fahrenheit vs celsius. We have big temperature swings here. There is not enough detail in celsius. Have to add too many decimals. It makes sense having a lot of numbers between freezing, cold, ok, warm, hot and August.

I'm not going outside = -x to 15, too damn cold = 16 to 28, cold = 29 to 39, water freezing/snow sticking = 32, cool = 40 to 58, ok = 59 to 69, warm = 70 to 79, hot = 80 to 95, August = 95 to 110.

Here in Oklahoma, we sometimes get down to 0F in the winter and usually hit 108F in the summer. 108F with 80% humidity is another "I'm not going outside".

Celsius compacts those down too much. 0 for freezing and 38 for too hot. That's crazy.

Temperatures need a wider range so we know what to wear or whether we need to stay inside.
 
I forgot to mention that I have a 1920’s era Emerson Bakelite/Catalin bullet radio I purchased back in my twenties from a movie prop rental company—only because I was big into Art Deco back then. It still works, but only accesses spooky AM stations and between channels I think you can hear spectral communications from ghosts and extraterrestrials.

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A real "modern Classic" pretty!
 
I'm glad we still use the better system here. Inches are useful more often than centimeters and millimeters. Feet are useful more often than meters. Yards work fine instead of meters. The same with miles. This is a big country. Kilometers are too small. Our signs would need to be bigger to handle all those digits.

The same goes for Fahrenheit vs celsius. We have big temperature swings here. There is not enough detail in celsius. Have to add too many decimals. It makes sense having a lot of numbers between freezing, cold, ok, warm, hot and August.

I'm not going outside = -x to 15, too damn cold = 16 to 28, cold = 29 to 39, water freezing/snow sticking = 32, cool = 40 to 58, ok = 59 to 69, warm = 70 to 79, hot = 80 to 95, August = 95 to 110.

Here in Oklahoma, we sometimes get down to 0F in the winter and usually hit 108F in the summer. 108F with 80% humidity is another "I'm not going outside".

Celsius compacts those down too much. 0 for freezing and 38 for too hot. That's crazy.

Temperatures need a wider range so we know what to wear or whether we need to stay inside.
What size engine do you have in your truck? :p
 
You know, I am just sitting here musing about the precision* of a measurement (ostensibly) presented in the media as "roughly the size of six or seven" washing machines. Our washing machine is 27 inches, umm, I mean ,about 67.8 cm wide.
6 x 67.8 cm = 406.8 cm
7 x 67.8 cm = 474.6 cm

I think it is easy for most people to picture a hole the size of 6 or 7 washing machines. Much easier than dealing with so many centimeters, percentage of a centimeters and then converting that to meters.
 
Celsius compacts those down too much. 0 for freezing and 38 for too hot. That's crazy.
Sure thing. Why on earth would one choose easy to memorise and relate things like the freezing and boiling points of water use with temperature units.
 
I'm glad we still use the better system here. Inches are useful more often than centimeters and millimeters. Feet are useful more often than meters. Yards work fine instead of meters. The same with miles. This is a big country. Kilometers are too small. Our signs would need to be bigger to handle all those digits.

The same goes for Fahrenheit vs celsius. We have big temperature swings here. There is not enough detail in celsius. Have to add too many decimals. It makes sense having a lot of numbers between freezing, cold, ok, warm, hot and August.

I'm not going outside = -x to 15, too damn cold = 16 to 28, cold = 29 to 39, water freezing/snow sticking = 32, cool = 40 to 58, ok = 59 to 69, warm = 70 to 79, hot = 80 to 95, August = 95 to 110.

Here in Oklahoma, we sometimes get down to 0F in the winter and usually hit 108F in the summer. 108F with 80% humidity is another "I'm not going outside".

Celsius compacts those down too much. 0 for freezing and 38 for too hot. That's crazy.

Temperatures need a wider range so we know what to wear or whether we need to stay inside.
"Celsius compacts those down too much. 0 for freezing and 38 for too hot. That's crazy."

Why? it's not that hard, between 10 Celsius and 30 Celsius is liveable, but between 19 - 25 ish preferable (al least to me):)
it also depends on humidity of course.
 
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