Thunderbird Club

[Stealth57]

Sad casualty this year…. I don’t know if we will ever recover…. Motor bearing gone… but not forgotten….

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That sucker looks half way between Harvest Gold and Avocado Green. Late 70s or early 80s.

 

[MCF]

Sad casualty this year…. I don’t know if we will ever recover…. Motor bearing gone… but not forgotten….

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I had the matching can opener for years. The plastic broke in a couple places, but the thing just kept running. My wife finally got sick of it.

 

[dagrev]

Nice driveway Donnie, you keep it nice!

I wish it were!

 

[dagrev]

& correct me if i'm wrong, but 76-79 birds were also wired in series, as opposed to the parallel of 60s bird VIs & 87-present birds.

I don't recall hearing this. But libraries are full of things I don't know.

 

[dagrev]

Yeah, but I can usually tell the difference in sound.

Yeah, definitely a slightly different sound.

 

[dagrev]

Sad casualty this year…. I don’t know if we will ever recover…. Motor bearing gone… but not forgotten….

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Never fear. The new ones will last 13 to 20 months instead of 13 to 20 years.

 

[GonePlaid]

Sad casualty this year…. I don’t know if we will ever recover…. Motor bearing gone… but not forgotten….

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Mine's older than that and starting to go but until it explodes in my hand...

 

[Stealth57]

Mine's older than that and starting to go but until it explodes in my hand...

AHEM

 

[GonePlaid]

Never fear. The new ones will last 13 to 20 months instead of 13 to 20 years.

Well, for me that might be a lifetime.

 

[GonePlaid]

Yeah, definitely a slightly different sound.

One of those things that's hard to describe, but ya know it when ya hear it. Sorta like a J on bridge pup.

 

[Gaolee]

Picked up a minty Acoustic 150b for my brother for Christmas (so I can get my Sunn 200s back that was on loan). And damnit, now I need to find another minty one, because it sounds fantastic! Really great sound from just the treble and bass controls, and especially with the bright switch flicked, really brings the crunch and attack.

There is solid state and then there is ACC solid state. I suspect that the magic is in the transformers and enormous capacitors. But I don't have a real way to know.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

decoupling can be important in bass amplification….

 

[Stealth57]

Irv, I hear Justin is giving you 2 grand per month.

 

[PhR75]

& correct me if i'm wrong, but 76-79 birds were also wired in series, as opposed to the parallel of 60s bird

That is correct.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I don't miss that part of spring, summer, and fall in Ohio and on the East Coast. My head was happier in the western Carolina hills for some reason. My head really likes the West Coast.

My head really likes anywhere near saltwater.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Did you buy something we will need to see pics of???

Not since the cardinal.

 

[5StringBlues]

HAPPY HOLLINDAISE!!!

 

[GBassNorth]

HAPPY HOLLINDAISE!!!

Wee fish ewe a mare egret moose

 

[MCF]

HAPPY HOLLINDAISE!!!

Back at you SString!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Wee fish ewe a mare egret moose

Panda hippo gnu deer!