Hello From the Independent Republic of Pencombe

[vinydobby]

Again, many thanks for the welcomes. To respond to a couple of points. I do not have a delivery time for the Radford but have asked Will for a provisional one as my "installer/fitter" needs a rough date. The audio furniture is based on a design I nicked of the interwebly. The man who makes them charges around £580 plus delivery from USA. Probably not a bad price but I have a dreadful affliction - if I see something I like my first response is "can I make it". My grandchildren have a constant list of requests which have included a two tier pirate bed, Lego tables, grand dolls house, dumper truck, Frodo's sword, a Tardis with lights and sounds, a woodworking bench and last week, a Captain America shield! Had to Google Captain America as I assumed it must be Trump Protector. That's how I ended up making the furniture. I will try to post some pics as I progress.

[vinydobby]

Not sure this is the right place but seemingly not allowed to post elsewhere. Following on from my last post, I am still awaiting the amp so to console myself I bought a set of Stax ES headphones! I am progressing well on building the hi fi unit and will post some pics of progress soon. Question I want to ask concerns my environment. Our village does not have gas or street lights but in all other respects is quite modern - we have a road going through, a bus that comes every Wednesday and goes somewhere. We rely on a splendid wood burner and are self sufficient in wood as we usually have a tree fall over every six months. Trouble is the burner does create "dust" and I want to be able to keep my new Ardens clean. I have seen various air blowers on the market but cannot find any sensible suggestion for blowing dust off speaker cones. Some aficionado said he used a vacuum cleaner with a brush on the end but after having discussed this with the Ardens, we feel this is a bit silly. Has anyone got any ideas on effective but gentle air blowers. I want to avoid cans at all costs as they seem to contain chemicals as well as air. Thanks in advance.

[AJSki2fly]

Not sure this is the right place but seemingly not allowed to post elsewhere. Following on from my last post, I am still awaiting the amp so to console myself I bought a set of Stax ES headphones! I am progressing well on building the hi fi unit and will post some pics of progress soon. Question I want to ask concerns my environment. Our village does not have gas or street lights but in all other respects is quite modern - we have a road going through, a bus that comes every Wednesday and goes somewhere. We rely on a splendid wood burner and are self sufficient in wood as we usually have a tree fall over every six months. Trouble is the burner does create "dust" and I want to be able to keep my new Ardens clean. I have seen various air blowers on the market but cannot find any sensible suggestion for blowing dust off speaker cones. Some aficionado said he used a vacuum cleaner with a brush on the end but after having discussed this with the Ardens, we feel this is a bit silly. Has anyone got any ideas on effective but gentle air blowers. I want to avoid cans at all costs as they seem to contain chemicals as well as air. Thanks in advance.

We have a wood burner too, they don’t get that dusty, I use a micro fibre duster on the wood a wax them lightly every couple of weeks. I tend to keep the speaker grills on and again every couple of weeks I use a soft brush attachment on our Miele vacuum and turn the suck down halfway, this works just fine. If I was going to get dust of to cones I would use a very soft brush, like a large artist brush.I would avoid blowing dust around as you will just be putting back in the amp air to settle on speakers agAin’t.