It’s nice to step back into my past and remember.thank you 👴🏻Nick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@scrimperuk

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your comment Nick and thanks for watching. John

Thank you! John for sharing your time about 78s records. I was given a collection, I have purchased a gramerphone and needles to play.

@scrimperuk

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching Lee. i am old enough to remember my late uncle using a wind up gramophone and playing 78's on it.

You're so right. Such care and detail was taken back in the day - craftsmanship.

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Spot on Bill. It really saddens me at how stuff today is so poor in quality that people expect to just chuck it out after a short time and buy new. Sadly the UK economy today depends on selling cheap imported goods mostly from china rather than manufacturing here.

A good bit of nostalgia, a walk through the science museum. 👍

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you David.

Funny stories and stuff.. Something else as scrolling! I loved it but now i go back to your scrolling vids :)

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your comment Rene, I shall do more scrolling videos but I have otyher subjects to cover as well, I like to do different things.

Fascinating, gizmos, gadgets and thingamabobs,

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alan. Your words would have made a really good title for the video! I wish I had thought of them.

Yet another interesting video! Thanks!

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the comment, so glad you liked the video.

Brilliant! The speed tester is fascinating - I'll spend all day trying to figure out how it works. Thanks John.

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment Mark. I imagine the speed tested works using centrifugal force. It's sealed up so can't look inside.

Because the tone arm has a bend in it (the friction from the needle is not in line with the pivot axis) there is a side force generated that causes the needle to favour one side of the groove. Applying a torque to the arm pivot to compensate for this was a common addition for quality tone arms. For example, the SME used a small weight on nylon thread, over a guide; you could select a groove on a bracket attached to the arm to select the required torque.

@scrimperuk

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment and for watching my video, afraid I am not much of a HiFi buff, I inherited a Thorens quality turntable and Quad amp, someone offered me £500 for the pair and I took the money. (both items needed work on them)

@Tensquaremetreworkshop

Жыл бұрын

@@scrimperuk Good sale. I also sold my vinyl stuff for good money- it is now prized by fanatics. It actually has nothing to commend it, and a whole heap of downsides, but I will not tell them if you don't...

what a delightful story teller you are !!

@scrimperuk

8 ай бұрын

You are very kind, thank you.

The Decca magnetic bias compensator fits on the pivot part of the tone arm. I used to use Hellerman sleeve expanders in my job when I was an electronic engineer. Tools like that were so well made then. I also have one of the little meters somewhere and like you, I can’t bring myself to throw away history. Destroying history seems to be the in thing these days. The little fibre needle sharpener is very nice. They used fibre to save excessive wear on the shellac records. As always, a pleasure to watch your videos.

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your interesting input and kind comment Alan. I guessed the bias thing is as you say by looking at the image on the leaflet, but to be honest I was more interested in it's little box than the contents and it is more modern and unexciting to me than the other items. I suppose I should have read the instructions with it.

I've still got all of my LPs (even bought a new one, by Dexter Gordon, on the Blue Note label on Wed 3rd November). Just looking to find a stand-alone table for my turntable (an Ariston Q-deck), so that I can connect it to the rest of my hi-fi and start playing the LPs again.

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment Michael. I still have my LP's too but never play them although I am delighted that they have now become popular again with some people. Many young folk today listening to low bit-rate MP3's on earphones have never heard the rich vibrant sound of music via decent hi-fi equipment with decent speakers. Even pre-recorded cassettes could give good sound on the right equipment. I still have my old reel to reel recorders and tapes from the late 1960's and yes they do still work.

Perhaps the bronze plaque could be donated to the Imperial War Museum?

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael, but in the politically correct world we live in now with trying to wipe history they would probably destroy it. If I am honest I am quite attached to it as it brings back happy memories of my grandmother who passed away many years ago.

I well remember 78's, my Dadhad quite a collection of them and used to play them on a Sunday. I recall they were very brittle, if you droped one it would shatter into pieces. As records changed people had loads of 78's they no longer wanted. I remember a magazine article at the time suggesting if you warmed them up you could shape them into an ornimental bowl. No idea how they got around the problem of the hole. I wonder if the Decca item would be a balance weight for a record player's tone arm? Thanks for sharing.

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Colin. There was a trend at one time to warm old records and turn them into bowls, I do remember that. I still have all of my original LP's but I also have most stuff on CD and now also MP3's.

The point master came as a kit in a box. Have you stopped posting videos? I did enjoy your nostalgic visits to stuff. I hope you’re ok and are well.

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Alan, I do intend more videos some are already filmed but not edited, I don't have much motivation to do them at the moment, perhaps when the winter comes I will 'get going' again.

@alanreynolds5985

2 жыл бұрын

@@scrimperuk Glad you’re ok. I was afraid something may have been wrong. Unlike Facebook, KZread doesn’t have a social contact system that works the same way. I hope you’re enjoying life, keep safe.

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

I am getting old Alan that's the problem! It is very difficult to make contact through KZread, people often ask for me to sent them scans of things etc and without a message system it's not easy.

Could the little hook thing with the heavy knob end be for helping a woman hook the loops on her shoes? Maybe Victorian era? Or could it be for tightening laces on roller or ice skates? My dad had something similar in his shoe repair shop, but I can't remember the exact shape. Interesting collection. I too hate to throw away stuff. If there is any historical background on an object I have a hard time parting with it. Enjoyed and take care!

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your interesting comments Michael. Funnily enough as I was finishing the video one of my daughters suggested exactly the same explanation but after looking at Google etc we could find nothing like it. Also the end isn't really a hook and it would keep losing the laces I would think. But your suggestion is certainly better than that of my grandson!

@michaelmarchione3408

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if you could make a video on how you come up with or draw the 3-D type of people you make. I've watch your older videos on cutting and painting. But, I would be interested in seeing how you come up with the profiles like the kids on the seesaw and other characters. How tall should they be? 5 inches, 6 inches? So they can be seen from a distance.

@scrimperuk

2 жыл бұрын

Michael have you seen this video? kzread.info/dash/bejne/d2F7u6iDZMjJeLA.html There is nothing really special about the characters, basically they are just blocks of wood with arms and legs stuck on, in fact the odder you make them the more effective they are. As regards size, i always wish that I had made them bigger, the bigger they are the better they look in my opinion. In my video the bodies are around 2 1/2- 3inches excluding the legs but you don't need any special skills to make them, don't forget they are viewed from a distance. Two things I have found is 1, use a hardwood any species will do as long (as it's not Balsa) I just use bits of old chair legs or any thrown out scraps, I have even cut bits of elm and ash out of our hedge to use.

@michaelmarchione3408

2 жыл бұрын

@@scrimperuk Thanks John, take care!