Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

Mildly entertaining....

Glad I never drank Pabst. Apparently it saved me from more bad decisions.


Great vid!

 

[JJR58]

Another happy transistor Tuesday.

 

[Stealth57]

Meh. You need to get much more creative than that. It’s been done.
This is imagination and stepping outside the box.
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Corn beef hash with skittles and pretzels.

 

[MCF]

yeah it’s nuts, I have an RF background and when I started out, we had a russian designer who had to be kept from going to europe because he was one of two people in the world who could design a 65 GHz mixer……today AD markets chipsets operating at 24GHz for automotive “stay in lane” applications……just crazy…..I’m currently working on USB/4 stuff (40GHz) where data line protection diodes can’t exceed a few femto Farad of parasitic C so as not to disrupt rise and fall times……

Easy for you to say.

 

[MCF]

Yay!
Although large bass on small person isn’t a problem unless you decide it is. Just look at Suzi Quatro!

She’s 5’2”.

 

[The EDP]

She’s 5’2”.
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Saw an interview with her in the last year or two and she's still absolutely delightful!

 

[dagrev]

Thanks. Three weeks in Costa Rica. I'll assume I mostly missed Dave's food, so I just skipped to the end.

Glad y'all are back safely.

This is a thread dedicated to Thunderbird discussion. Where do you get this off topic business?

 

[dagrev]

I have a Hamilton pocket watch - if I can only remember where it's stored...

Nice!

 

[The EDP]

Don’t forget @The EDP has someone working on this right now.

Got the Greco-alikes in my PB Non-Reverse - got to record it alongside the sound of the originals, just a queue for studio time!
Related topic: normal (reverse) Thunderbirds' bodies are the exact same size as Firebirds - is the same true of the Non-Reverse Thunderbirds/Firebirds? Getting templates together for fun projects - got a diagram from Mr Brooks but there are only certain dims on there, any helpful info gratefully received!

 

[The EDP]

Don’t forget @The EDP has someone working on this right now.

And I forgot to mention: the Greco-alikes sound similar-ish to the 60s reissue types on the recent Non-Reverses but, in the same way that Greco p'ups behave, they have an element of bass-end unbridled lunacy. I absolutely LOVE THEM. Will get them recorded soon as I can. Should have a bunch of comparison recorded snippets.

 

[dagrev]

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My Grandfather’s watch. I think the case is known as a hunting case? It has opening covers both sides.

It’s an American Waltham which was a common watch in those days I believe.
I need to get the mainspring replaced.

Yes on all accounts. I've got one that looks pretty similar to that one only in a pewter type case (and non-hunting). It's from the late 1880s IIRC. Your watch is likely from the same era.

 

[dagrev]

My Czech grandpa (mom's father) was a conductor for Union Pacific RR.

Both my G-fathers (one an engineer), one uncle and a cousin all worked for L&N. I always hoped to end up with one of their watches. The bio-dad was never going to happen, but had hopes of the other Gdad and uncle sine I was the only one in the family to had an interest in RR watches. Not to be.

See, Ken--I don't know where you come up with some of things.....

 

[dagrev]

Thanks for all your help in my Thunderbird search. We ended up making this video.

Welcome home to Thunderbird!

 

[dagrev]

No 1 choccy bickie in Oz! They are a household staple.

@dagrev Donnie, they were named after a Kentucky Derby winner.

I think you are correct. I don't keep up horse racing. I lived a stone's throw (literally), from Churchill Downs and saw the other, non-pretty side of things and knew people who worked in the business. In fact, my wife and I see who can go the longest and not hear who won the Derby. We are inundated by "Derby" for a month or more here and get tired of hearing about it. I liked all the hoopla when young, but just holds no interest for me know.

 

[dagrev]

Dad’s dad worked for the post office as a mail carrier, and for the railway postal service. This was his. I haven’t been able to open it to get the model but it runs. It appears to be a lever set, so opening is required to set it.
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Nice! Yeah, they can be tricky if the threads ever get out of wack one too many times.

 

[dagrev]

Easy for you to say.

I kept up really well through the "yeah it’s nuts..." part.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Easy for you to say.

a Japanese customer in Nagoya once said to me “Lawyers divide the pie….Engineers make the pie bigger”….

 

[Engle]

yeah same here, in circuit design and applications for decades now, currently with an old, well known european silicon manufacturer pushing product into california fruit……totally agree, fun work, has taken me all over the world in different roles….

I know what all these words mean on their own, but huh?

 

[Stealth57]

I know what all these words mean on their own, but huh?

Semiconductor manufacturer selling to Apple. I’m just guessing as Chucky would never violate an NDA.

 

[SubHuman]

yeah it’s nuts, I have an RF background and when I started out, we had a russian designer who had to be kept from going to europe because he was one of two people in the world who could design a 65 GHz mixer……today AD markets chipsets operating at 24GHz for automotive “stay in lane” applications……just crazy…..I’m currently working on USB/4 stuff (40GHz) where data line protection diodes can’t exceed a few femto Farad of parasitic C so as not to disrupt rise and fall times……

When you start talking about 65GHz it’s hard for me to wrap my mind around clocking something 65 Billion times a second! Crazy stuff!