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Let's see your workshop.
03-29-2017, 05:54 PM (This post was last modified: 03-29-2017 05:55 PM by Geoff Quickfall.)
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Let's see your workshop.
After a 12 hour ordeal I got the workshop/office to the point where Janice will allow me to leave the door open!

The rack on the centre has some of the HP's I have but the very bottom row is still project shelf. Things get placed there for a rainy day. And it has been rainy, we have now broken a record set in 1956 for continuous rainfall in Vancouver.

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Can you spot the TOS Star Trek stuff?
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03-29-2017, 07:12 PM
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A TOS communicator can come in handy for your day job, in an emergency. I hope the tricorder is a real one and not one of those cheap alpha centauri knock offs. The dilithium cristals in those catch fire.
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03-29-2017, 07:21 PM
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There's the communicator/TV remote. Looking for an E6B, does that count?

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03-29-2017, 07:25 PM
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Dave,

that's the lock screen for my company iPad!!

Don,

the communicator is blue tooth and synched to my iPhone. You should see me in airport security when I get a phone call!!

Geoff
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03-29-2017, 09:39 PM
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(03-29-2017 07:12 PM)Den Belillo (Martinez Ca.) Wrote:  A TOS communicator can come in handy for your day job, in an emergency. I hope the tricorder is a real one and not one of those cheap alpha centauri knock offs. The dilithium cristals in those catch fire.

The cheap Alpha Centuri ones were from "lost in space"' I don't think they had dilithium crystals in the series.
Then again I don't think they ever got there did they ?


Geoff
Are those transistor radios I spotted in the shelf near the "sillyscope" ?

Ray
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03-30-2017, 12:14 AM (This post was last modified: 03-30-2017 12:16 AM by Geoff Quickfall.)
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Yes, you found them, 50's and 60's reverse painted transistor radios all restored (new caps) some in original boxes:

Before and after:

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The cabinet:

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The big one:

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And to the far right more HPs after all, need them for the book.

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03-30-2017, 02:55 AM
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(03-30-2017 12:14 AM)Geoff Quickfall Wrote:  ... book.

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03-30-2017, 03:02 AM
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Good movie,

Don't understand the reference though :-)

Stand by for surprises.

Geoff
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03-30-2017, 04:04 AM
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***THE*** book?!? Gadzooks, Geoff, I can't afford to make it to Nashville this year. But if that may be where it appears - perhaps I can start walking now???

What, me interested?
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03-30-2017, 05:45 AM
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Ha, no pressure there.

If you look closely, just above the 9825a is a working copy of eth book. The last three chapters are a killer (writers block)and this damn forum keeps expanding the various chapters and the appendix!

:-)
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03-30-2017, 12:32 PM
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(03-30-2017 03:02 AM)Geoff Quickfall Wrote:  Don't understand the reference though :-)

Lol, just a joke about your long-awaited book on restoration. You must know by now how eager many of us are to purchase a copy when it appears.


Quote:Stand by for surprises.

Now that sounds interesting.

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Brad
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03-30-2017, 12:47 PM
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Brad,

I was being facetious!

Purposely missing the point :-)
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03-30-2017, 05:14 PM
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Brad,

I was being facetious!

Purposely missing the point :-)
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03-30-2017, 05:21 PM
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(03-30-2017 03:02 AM)Geoff Quickfall Wrote:  Stand by for surprises.

It's being released on HP-65 mag cards. :-)

(Nice radio - I have to mark the CONELRAD frequencies on all those new-fangled ones with a Sharpie!)

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03-30-2017, 05:48 PM (This post was last modified: 03-30-2017 05:49 PM by Maximilian Hohmann.)
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Hello!

(03-29-2017 07:25 PM)Geoff Quickfall Wrote:  the communicator is blue tooth and synched to my iPhone. You should see me in airport security when I get a phone call!!

You saved my day! My wife's birthday is not far away and she is a trekkie (goes to conventions in costume and such things...). Didn't even know those bluetooth communicators existed - what a present.

As far as my "workshop" is concerned it is presently not presentable. No way I will show pictures on the internet. Two 3-D printers and two quadcopters awaiting completion next to all the calculators and stuff - what a mess. I really must buy my wife that communicator or she will change the locks of the house ;-)

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Max
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03-30-2017, 06:12 PM
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made by the Wand Company:

Description:

The Wand Company

Where to buy:

Star Trek purchase site

Good luck Max!
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03-30-2017, 07:03 PM
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(03-30-2017 05:48 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  Hello!

You saved my day! My wife's birthday is not far away and she is a trekkie (goes to conventions in costume and such things...). Didn't even know those bluetooth communicators existed - what a present.

The Bluetooth Communicator and Type II Phaser TV remote from the Wand Co. are both excellent in both accuracy and workmanship (can I use workMANship these days?)
Every Trekker and Trekkie (yes they ARE different!) should have at least one of each.

Tom L

Tom L
Cui bono?
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03-31-2017, 02:31 AM
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I think I see a TI model in that last picture of this post:

Posted by Geoff Quickfall - Yesterday 10:14 AM

The keys are pretty distinguishable.
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03-31-2017, 02:39 AM
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Yep, Gene, 59, 58 and the one you talked about last year!

Some navitronics and interesting others but 90% HP.
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03-31-2017, 12:16 PM
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Of course, you'll have to add more items after my talk this fall!
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