Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[bobyoung53]

This is mine out of the metal case when I was working on it.

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I have a Hickok 533A at home, it's been sent out twice, was broken on the first trip back, sent back and lasted about a week the second time. I'm going to find a new tech to fix it. It looks very similar to yours.

 

[12BitSlab]

@Jeff Scott - you mentioned that you purchased some Rookwood. As you know, Rookwood was made in Cincinnati. My grandfather on my mother’s side (born 1875) was a Rookwood artist. Several of his pieces are on display in the Cincinnati Art Museum. His work was signed with his initials - CJD aka Charles John Dibowski. He worked at Rookwood from 1892-1895. He left Rookwood to lead the exodus of artists to Weller Pottery in Zanesville.

Hope you enjoy having/displaying your Rookwood pieces!

 

[beans-on-toast]

I have a Hickok 533A at home, it's been sent out twice, was broken on the first trip back, sent back and lasted about a week the second time. I'm going to find a new tech to fix it. It looks very similar to yours.

It’s getting harder to find people that can repair these testers. Here is one.

http://www.alltubetesters.com/

You might be better off finding a shop that can accurately test your tubes. Many tube tester can test preamp tubes but they are not capable of applying the plate voltages found in many musical instrument amps. It’s best to test tubes under the operating conditions of the musical instrument amp that the tubes will go into: plate and screen voltages and the type and level of bias voltage.

 

[Jeff Scott]

This is mine out of the metal case when I was working on it.

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My 639B looked way different than that.

@Jeff Scott - you mentioned that you purchased some Rookwood. As you know, Rookwood was made in Cincinnati. My grandfather on my mother’s side (born 1875) was a Rookwood artist. Several of his pieces are on display in the Cincinnati Art Museum. His work was signed with his initials - CJD aka Charles John Dibowski. He worked at Rookwood from 1892-1895. He left Rookwood to lead the exodus of artists to Weller Pottery in Zanesville.

Hope you enjoy having/displaying your Rookwood pieces!

Very cool! He was way before the era of Rookwood I have, the earliest being the piece from 1919. I don't have any Weller (yet), but I do have a Zanesville 102 Tobacco Leaf vase, and a Roseville Carnelian I vase.

The wood vase in the middle was made by an area artist; we have a few of his works.

Shades of Wood Artistic Designs

The sideboard is a Gustav Stickley 819 from 1912.

One of these days I should make a photograph of the Rookwood pieces.

 

[bobyoung53]

It’s getting harder to find people that can repair these testers. Here is one.

http://www.alltubetesters.com/

You might be better off finding a shop that can accurately test your tubes. Many tube tester can test preamp tubes but they are not capable of applying the plate voltages found in many musical instrument amps. It’s best to test tubes under the operating conditions of the musical instrument amp that the tubes will go into: plate and screen voltages and the type and level of bias voltage.

Thanks, I'll check him out when I get home, I may have even contacted him at some time in the past and then not been there to be able to take the time to get it back. They're pretty good testers and can test the old tubes I need, the only thing they can't test that I'd like are 6550s and KT88's.

 

[12BitSlab]

My 639B looked way different than that.

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Very cool! He was way before the era of Rookwood I have, the earliest being the piece from 1919. I don't have any Weller (yet), but I do have a Zanesville 102 Tobacco Leaf vase, and a Roseville Carnelian I vase.

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The wood vase in the middle was made by an area artist; we have a few of his works.

Shades of Wood Artistic Designs

The sideboard is a Gustav Stickley 819 from 1912.

One of these days I should make a photograph of the Rookwood pieces.

Like the pic! Rookwood and Ric’s work well together.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Like the pic! Rookwood and Ric’s work well together.

I'll make that happen!

 

[mikeoso]

After lunch and a nap, I dismounted the right rear tire from the old (1947) Ford 8N tractor that I use to mow the field grass. The tread was fine but the sidewall had cracked to the point where I could lift a flap and touch the cord on the inner carcass. It's cool being able to tool around on a machine that is older than you. .

Wish I had one of those. Going shopping today for something to use on our pasture/prairie areas. I've been trying to maintain it with a 48"Husquvarna, and keep damaging the deck, spindles, etc etc. Need something heavier, higher cut...dunno, maybe a tow behind.

 

[beans-on-toast]

It’s Deere season.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Your basic Euro tractor (at upper right)

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Edit. Ireland was partitioned 100 years ago today.

 

[spiritbass]

Wish I had one of those. Going shopping today for something to use on our pasture/prairie areas. I've been trying to maintain it with a 48"Husquvarna, and keep damaging the deck, spindles, etc etc. Need something heavier, higher cut...dunno, maybe a tow behind.

I inherited it from my father. He paid $500 for it in '1962 dollars'. It's paid for itself may times over.

 

[GonePlaid]

Thought this fit this thread:

And this from the Florida Highway Patrol booth at the FL State Fair(Smokey Bear-on CB):

 

[Deleted member 268085]

This is mine out of the metal case when I was working on it.

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I spent decades as an engineer. Even studied and worked with tubes in the mid '70s. I know what an 'ohm' is, but for the life of me I can't remember *** a 'micromho' is. Hate these senior moments.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Thought this fit this thread:
... this from the Florida Highway Patrol booth at the FL State Fair(Smokey Bear-on CB):
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I just spent 15 minutes looking for a photo of the interior of the now-closed Beale Street Police Museum in Memphis, but couldn't find one. They had a 1946 police motorcycle with a one-way (dispatch) tube radio installed on it. Very cool!

And one you GOFs should remember, with a upgraded TWO-WAY tube radio.

 

[notJaco]

I inherited it from my father. He paid $500 for it in '1962 dollars'. It's paid for itself may times over.

It is good to still have them around. I have an 8N that I bought in 1996. Being a real noob at the time, what I bought was a nice paint job with a worn out neglected tractor lurking beneath. It is a 1948 model that likely never saw the likes of a grease gun since it left the Ford factory. Fortunately, what seemed to survive was the gear box but everything else needed attention to make it usable. So, I took to it and made it a great little tractor again. That is what I use to mow our lawn which amounts to about 4 1/2 acres and pull a brush hog to do the mowing. Keep it low and the blades sharp and it works pretty darn well considering a brush hog is supposed to be more of a rough clearing machine. The terrain is not tame enough to use a finish mower.

The old tractors were built to last. The local repair place said that the current ones coming out of Asia have gears in them suitable for a motorcycle and commonly strip out when put to serious farming tasks.

 

[spiritbass]

I spent decades as an engineer. Even studied and worked with tubes in the mid '75s. I know what an 'ohm' is, but for the life of me I can't remember *** a 'micromho' is. Hate these senior moments.

It's a very small unit of conductance (mho = ohm backward).

 

[SoulReflection]

I spent decades as an engineer. Even studied and worked with tubes in the mid '75s. I know what an 'ohm' is, but for the life of me I can't remember *** a 'micromho' is. Hate these senior moments.

Don't feel bad...I barely remember 'ohm' and his law...

 

[spiritbass]

It is good to still have them around. I have an 8N that I bought in 1996. Being a real noob at the time, what I bought was a nice paint job with a worn out neglected tractor lurking beneath. It is a 1948 model that likely never saw the likes of a grease gun since it left the Ford factory. Fortunately, what seemed to survive was the gear box but everything else needed attention to make it usable. So, I took to it and made it a great little tractor again. That is what I use to mow our lawn which amounts to about 4 1/2 acres and pull a brush hog to do the mowing. Keep it low and the blades sharp and it works pretty darn well considering a brush hog is supposed to be more of a rough clearing machine. The terrain is not tame enough to use a finish mower.

The old tractors were built to last. The local repair place said that the current ones coming out of Asia have gears in them suitable for a motorcycle and commonly strip out when put to serious farming tasks.

The best things I've done for the old 8N was upgrade it to 12v and install a solid-state ignition system.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Stayed as far away from the university science department as humanly possible. The highest math course I ever completed is basic geometry when I was 16. My personal experience informs me it takes a great deal of work to stay beyond those studies. They do have a way of creeping in, like my need to know what I can and can't do with my amp.

 

[G-Dog]

I just spent 15 minutes looking for a photo of the interior of the now-closed Beale Street Police Museum in Memphis, but couldn't find one. They had a 1946 police motorcycle with a one-way (dispatch) tube radio installed on it. Very cool!

And one you GOFs should remember, with a upgraded TWO-WAY tube radio.

Oooo! Oooo! Oooo!

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