Just To Say Hello

[Nowhere-Man]

Thanks for the warm welcome. I tried to upload a pic of my East German 1964 valve radio project but the image was way too big for some reason. I tried reducing it to get some sort of image but not too good.

This East German set has about the most advanced valves of the era plus a printed circuit board instead of valve holders. It was working on FM but not on SW, LW, and MW. I did notice an aerial coil was out of circuit so a very fiddly job awaits. Magic eye is also suspect. Actually I decided this was too advanced for me so it's on hold till I get more experience. I swapped to work on a 1939 TRF 120 volt battery set which is far simpler in design. This latter set has mainly pentodes and an output tetrode - very large valves like pepper pots. The wiring was really awful so I replaced everything I could get at and suppose I really ought to have taken it apart completely rather than partially.

[Mark Hennessy]

Hi NW

I've just checked, and Jpeg images have an upper size limit of 1.46MB. A funny number, I confess - and I'm not sure why it was set to that.

How big are your image files? What software have you got on your computer that is able to resize images? Would you like some help and advice?

The simplest way is to tell the camera to produce smaller files - that's normally just a menu setting. But personally, I leave the camera at its highest resolution (storage is cheap) and re-size before uploading to forums. I leave the original images intact, as you never know what you might want to use them for in the future... I use an ancient copy of Paint Shop Pro, but there are plenty of free options out there.

All the best,

Mark

[Nowhere-Man]

I have a Fujifilm camera but it never happened before the pic was too large. I'll find out later. It could be the camera has some kind of auto setting if you take pics from a distance.

Today I had a bad day as I notice now companies can't be contacted any more. Don't know if anyone has noticed this? They seem to be removing actual customer service in favour of automated recordings. It looks like I'll have to write by snail mail as I did last time.

The better news is I had my driving belts arrived today and now my 8 Track Player is up and running. The only 8 track tape I had to test was a Santana but it was playing fine.

[boater sam]

I have never played with 8 tracks but remember them from the 70's. Good to see we now have a member who will belt up! You may become a guru on belts.
When you get fed up with Santana (it may take a while) there are loads of others on ebay.
Glad that you could find the correct belts. I used to replace the belt on 3" PCW drives, they were always stretching, suspect heat spoils them.

[AlanBeckett]

There'll be lots at the NVCF on 10th May.
There'll also be lots of other stuff you don't need, but will buy anyway  

Alan

[Nowhere-Man]

I have never played with 8 tracks but remember them from the 70's. Good to see we now have a member who will belt up! You may become a guru on belts.
When you get fed up with Santana (it may take a while) there are loads of others on ebay.
Glad that you could find the correct belts. I used to replace the belt on 3" PCW drives, they were always stretching, suspect heat spoils them.

I've been founding out I have a lot to learn. Turns out now some pulleys in cassette players have "tyres" and I found one split in half the other day. Cassette players are harder than 8 track - you only have one belt for an 8 track normally.