07-03-2024, 11:09 PM
I filled my trusty Waterman just a couple of hours ago, from a 2oz bottle of Quink that gets refilled every now and then (not very often these days) from a 20oz one. Wound the library's modest 1930-ish longcase clock (granddaughter?) too. Its Westminster chimes are intact, unlike those of Fakenham Church which are currently missing one note in every four.
Seems to me that extreme reliability has been available for a while now in domestic electronics wherever it's really wanted. The most elaborate radio here - perhaps the most elaborate quasi-domestic set anywhere, I can't think of a rival - is a Panasonic RF-9000, employing 174 discrete transistors, 21 FETs and 41 ICs, 40 years old and still fully working. I hope it stays that way, just leafing through the service manual makes my head spin.
Paul
Seems to me that extreme reliability has been available for a while now in domestic electronics wherever it's really wanted. The most elaborate radio here - perhaps the most elaborate quasi-domestic set anywhere, I can't think of a rival - is a Panasonic RF-9000, employing 174 discrete transistors, 21 FETs and 41 ICs, 40 years old and still fully working. I hope it stays that way, just leafing through the service manual makes my head spin.
Paul
