Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[Julie.]

Take your pick

 

[Micktw68]

Take your pick

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Oooo Nice. Looks like a swanky version of the old twin reverb. Whats that strat, a American Pro or HSS ?

 

[Julie.]

Oooo Nice. Looks like a swanky version of the old twin reverb. Whats that strat, a American Pro or HSS ?

The strat's just an hss original body Mexican.

I actually prefer the hp Gibson, although my strat is out of the picture - those are all my husband's in the photo.

The amp is a cyber deluxe all solid state, with about 60 modes, so if you want it to sound like a valved Marshall or a subway rocket mesa boogie then you just select that mode.

Tbh it sounds so much like the real thing, we sold the rocket and Marshall and most of the other amps, just this one and a practice amp left.

 

[pc1966]

Take your pick

Ah, but is it the pick of destiny?

 

[littlespark]

Take your pick

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That is a “fine four-fendered friend”!

 

[pirate]

More of a Gibson Les Paul fan myself, but have played a friend's strat and really liked it

 

[Micktw68]

The strat's just an hss original body Mexican.

I actually prefer the hp Gibson, although my strat is out of the picture - those are all my husband's in the photo.

The amp is a cyber deluxe all solid state, with about 60 modes, so if you want it to sound like a valved Marshall or a subway rocket mesa boogie then you just select that mode.

Tbh it sounds so much like the real thing, we sold the rocket and Marshall and most of the other amps, just this one and a practice amp left.

First born with my 54 esquire, that he thought he was going to take to uni , I bought him a sea foam American pro instead. And my 85 strat that I’m refurbing after 30+ years of abuse

 

[ipf]

Although it needs attention, this 1930's 'LEP Co'( Lancashire Electric Power Company) head is a work of art.
.........but take a look at the cables plastered, or not, into the wall!
Looks like the place could be a mess. T+I tomorrow.

 

[Dustydazzler]

New wiska box suggests some fairly recent alterations

 

[ipf]

Sorry sir, that were me..........when asked to sort the faulty door bell a couple of weeks back.
How I found it, with the old XFR below it.

 

[FatAlan]

?Couldn’t you get grey glands to go with the box or even a white box to go with the glands?

 

[ipf]

?Couldn’t you get grey glands to go with the box or even a white box to go with the glands?

I could have just got a new lid for the browny, I suppose. ?......from some museum or other.

Tough day today, CU was under the bleedin' stairs. These jobs for friends!!
Two CU's the original one's a real balls up, mess. Faults all over the place and awful standards.

The second board, for the extension, was done decently, but then, just to rub it in........ socket connections and in board, the RFC tester's nightmare!

 

[Dartlec]

"The cable came loose from the big bulky black plug so I just connected it to a new plug"




That will have done the 12V camera lots of good I'm sure....?‍

Will find out Monday if he got lucky or not with protective circuitry...

 

[DPG]

"The cable came loose from the big bulky black plug so I just connected it to a new plug"

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That will have done the 12V camera lots of good I'm sure....?‍

Will find out Monday if he got lucky or not with protective circuitry...

My money's on that being a dead camera now!

 

[static zap]

came loose from the big bulky black plug

The fact some run worryingly warm , could be a fire hazard ! ( Is NOW )

 

[Mike Johnson]

Oh a back box straddling the grout line!

 

[MrPupsi]

I thought the last one I put up was bad….

 

[Dartlec]

I thought the last one I put up was bad….

That's almost impressive...

but......why!!! Cables look long enough - what possible benefit is there in doing it that way??

 

[Dustydazzler]

I’d be ripping that shyt straight off the wall and re-doing it all again

 

[GBDamo]

I thought the last one I put up was bad….

Can't fathom where the dark brown tail in the second RCD goes.

 

[timhoward]

Can't fathom where the dark brown tail in the second RCD goes.

Has to be bottom of main switch....somehow...doesn't it? but agree it seems to vanish!

 

[timhoward]

My money's on that being a dead camera now!

Amazing things happen sometimes that seem to defy everything....
No photo's as it was years ago. But someone I knew was once trying to work out why a video was recording pictures but not sound. They wanted to stick a multi-meter on the sound recording head.
But they didn't have one. So they had the astoundingly creative idea of using the analogue to digital converter on a BBC micro joystick port, designed to measure from 0 to 1.8v DC.
As soon as they connected the 0v on the analogue in port to the (presumably) 230v AC on the recording head it blew the 30A fuse (wired).
So when I turned up to replace the fuse wire, I was most curious what state the computer and video were in afterwards. To my utter amazement the computer was perfectly fine and the joystick port worked on all 4 channels, and the video not only worked but now recorded sound.....!

 

[GBDamo]

Has to be bottom of main switch....somehow...doesn't it? but agree it seems to vanish!

You'll think so but, going by the rest, nothing is certain.

 

[Julie.]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????

Just making sure we don't obtain continuity of the CPC!

And how the f could it obtain ce compliance to non-CE standards?

 

[DPG]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????
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Just making sure we don't obtain continuity of the CPC!

And how the f could it obtain ce compliance to non-CE standards?

Got to love those plugs. I like how they go to the effort of partially sleeved live and neutral pins, but then get carried away and do the earth pin as well!

 

[timhoward]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????
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Just making sure we don't obtain continuity of the CPC!

And how the f could it obtain ce compliance to non-CE standards?

CE = Chinese Export presumably!

 

[Julie.]

Got to love those plugs. I like how they go to the effort of partially sleeved live and neutral pins, but then get carried away and do the earth pin as well!

Yeah just ridiculous, but the biggest demonstration of the farce and complete disregard for compliance with any standards whatsoever is the "CE" mark.

Especially when it's impossible to comply!

 

[DPG]

Yeah just ridiculous, but the biggest demonstration of the farce and complete disregard for compliance with any standards whatsoever is the "CE" mark.

Especially when it's impossible to comply!

Indeed. Some of those Chinese manufacturers really don't care.

 

[pc1966]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????

The lesser-fused widow maker?

 

[Simon47]

What in the name of everything unholy is this!!????

Knocked up in some Chinese small factory, by people with only a passing idea of what the standards actually are and mean. Probably read that British plugs have to have sleeved pins these days - so sleeve the pins.
If it was bought via one of the online tat bazaars, then it needs reporting to the bazaar as a dangerous and illegal item - so it can be blocked for the few seconds it will take the vendor to create a new account.
If it was bought from a UK or EU seller then it needs reporting to the relevant authorities (Trading Standards in the UK) as well as any bazaar that might have facilitated it's sale.

Just out of interest, what are the pins like for spacing and dimensions ? I see stuff that's got really rubbish pin dimensions and doesn't fit the sockets properly. Had to tell one of the church wardens to "lose" the ultrasonic rodent repellents (cheap tat off Amazon) before I did any testing as they'd all fail due to that.