Richard's hi-fi ranting 'Room 101'

[WikiBoy]

Dealt with, Richard!

Back on topic...

Have you ever thought of setting up a school for teaching D.I.Y electronics and running it from your home? You could certainly charge for the service and use it to supplement your Ebay trading. It would be another way of 'striking a blow for the little man'. Just a thought!

Marco.

Neither the time or the facilities, and you would all end up producing NVA's

I used to have a company with 11 employees and nearly 1 million turnover, virtually all export to the far east, reasons whys and wherefores I have explained in past posts. Now I work on my own doing what I want *through choice*. My primary work I still consider to be my Tai-Chi and Qigong school, though the audio work now contributes more money.

One of the basic Taoist premis is to be content with what you have and what life gives you and to go with the flow. But it also states that when you see disservice and exploitation and the power exploiting the weak it is your responsibility to respond to it. Where you see injustice it is your responsibility to show it. Makes me sound like the super hero I am - super muppet.

Dr Bunsen Honeydew rules, OK!

[Marco]

I must admit that I admire much about the Chinese/oriental mentality and the way they live their life. There's a reason why they generally live longer than people from the Western world...

I also believe big time in Karma!

Hey you could always kill two birds with the one stone and teach the people in your Tai-Chi and Qigong school to make electronics...

A sort of 'dance as you solder' class

Marco.

[Gromit]

Dealt with, Richard!

Back on topic...

Have you ever thought of setting up a school for teaching D.I.Y electronics and running it from your home?

Marco.

Even with Richard's inarguable expertise and experience I'd still end up blowing myself up.

[Marco]

Richard, apparently 'explosions' are all part of the fun.

I must admit that I have a penchant for blowing things up - my Yaqin amp is one of course! A friend and me also used to make our own fireworks as kids. What a riot that was!

Marco.

[Filterlab]

We used to blow up toy cars with French bangers. Amps though, not something I'd want to go playing about with - the potential for explosion must be huge.

[WikiBoy]

Richard, apparently 'explosions' are all part of the fun.

I must admit that I have a penchant for blowing things up - my Yaqin amp is one of course! A friend and me also used to make our own fireworks as kids. What a riot that was!

Marco.

My early interest developed out of a childhood fascination with fires and matches. This progressed as Saturday boy at G.W.Smith & Co (Radio) Ltd in Lisle St in Soho in the mid to end 60's. Workbench in the cellar wiring up plugs and things for customers and in quiet times connecting different Guv Surplus components across a Safeblock to see which made the biggest bang and cloud of smoke

[WikiBoy]

We used to blow up toy cars with French bangers. Amps though, not something I'd want to go playing about with - the potential for explosion must be huge.

Get a nice fat 10,000mfd electrolytic in the power supply and connect it the wrong way around, luvly, goes off like a stick of dynamite after few seconds.

I will never forget an assembly worker at MM Electronics in Royston doing that with a PA amp he was building. The explosion blew him off his chair with his hair and eyebrows on fire (Luckily he was wearing glasses). He didn't work for two years and had a nervous breakdown.

[Filterlab]

Blimey, who'd have thought electronics could cause so much damage!

[Marco]

Nice one

We used to put some petrol into cars in disused scrap yards and shove a long home-made 'fuse' into the petrol tank, set it alight, and then run like f*ck and hide somewhere just in time before the huge explosion. It was f*cking loud, I can tell you!

When we were older we used to take shotguns into similar places and 'blow-out' the windows and tyres, and kid on that we were hunting someone down like mad psychos...

Tying home-made 'bangers' to stray cat's tails and watching them 'dance', was another of our jolly japes. These days, though, as an animal lover and cat owner I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing.

Marco.

[Marco]

Whats all this bollox got to do with dealers ?

None of it is on topic ! Richard and Marco, you are both acting against your own insistances,

It makes all of you look silly and is very confusing for us lurkers.

Welcome to the forum. Thanks for that. Have you got anything else constructive to say?

This is Richard's thread, so if he feels the thread drift is 'wrong' he can say so. It's not up to you.

How's Birmingham, btw?

Marco.