27-09-2021, 07:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 27-09-2021, 07:30 AM by ppppenguin.)
It was good to be back at Retrotech. Tehre were plenty of stalls but attendance was somewhat down. I suspect a combination of Covid worries and fuel shortage. Though I drove into a petrol station near Rugby and went straight to a pump. The £30 ration was sufficient.
As usual it was busy on the B&B stall though the money raised for the Vintage Wireless Museum was rather disappointing at under £500. I think this was because there were no significant high value items on the the donations side. I brought a lot of kit myself, but since I was raising funds for BECG all the higher value items were on commission sale. The highest value items were a pair of 300A audio triodes, both tested good, that I sold for £580. So that provided £58 in commission to the Museum.
I did the testing with my bench PSUs and supplied photos
This shows you can do valve testing without a valve tester. In fact this sort of test is the ultimate measure of a valve, it's how you can check the calibration of a valve tester.
There was an interesting charity sale of vintage photographic kit too.
One exhibit that attracted a lot of attention was Paul Elkington's reconstruction of a BBC "Roving Eye" car. I hope to have some photos later. It's a big Citroen estate car with a Philips LDK5 camera mounted on the roof. Its main job was to follow the horse at race meetings. The camera was giving suspiciously good pictures. It was what is known in the film/TV business as "simulated practical". A modern camera fitted inside the vintage equipment.
As usual it was busy on the B&B stall though the money raised for the Vintage Wireless Museum was rather disappointing at under £500. I think this was because there were no significant high value items on the the donations side. I brought a lot of kit myself, but since I was raising funds for BECG all the higher value items were on commission sale. The highest value items were a pair of 300A audio triodes, both tested good, that I sold for £580. So that provided £58 in commission to the Museum.
I did the testing with my bench PSUs and supplied photos
There was an interesting charity sale of vintage photographic kit too.
One exhibit that attracted a lot of attention was Paul Elkington's reconstruction of a BBC "Roving Eye" car. I hope to have some photos later. It's a big Citroen estate car with a Philips LDK5 camera mounted on the roof. Its main job was to follow the horse at race meetings. The camera was giving suspiciously good pictures. It was what is known in the film/TV business as "simulated practical". A modern camera fitted inside the vintage equipment.
www.borinsky.co.uk Jeffrey Borinsky www.becg.tv
