20-05-2012, 07:21 AM
You may know that in the UK we have 'pound shops' such as 'Poundland' and 'Poundworld' - I don't know if you have anything similar in Japan, but I imagine so. ('125 Yen' shops!?). They sell things such as boom mics, headsets, earphones etc. They're surprisingly good, and cheap enough to use as 'donors' for the leads or other items. (Scientific calculators for a pound - how times change!).
Glad you got sorted - elegant or not, the electrons aren't fussy!
As to questioning your rationality in effecting a repair - don't worry, you're among friends - we're all a bit barking mad. I'll spend half a day trying to mend a toaster than I could replace for a tenner. It's not as though I have time on my hands and nothing to do with it! In my case, it's a generational thing - it has nothing to do with rational thought or economics - it's that my brain is hard wired to the 'Make do and Mend' era, having grown up in the 1940s and 50s. Rationing didn't end until I left school in 1954, but it made little difference if you didn't have the money to buy stuff.
I guess that at times, we all spend far more restoring some radios than they're ever worth were we to sell them. Indeed, from a purely financial point of view, it would make more sense to remove the valves, the output transformer, dial and speaker, sell them individually and throw the radio away. But fortunately, that's not how we are 'programmed' or why we are in the hobby. It's not about economics - few hobbes are - it's about the enjoyable relaxing (if often challenging and frustrating!) use of our scace leisure time. At least I think so.
Glad you got sorted - elegant or not, the electrons aren't fussy!
As to questioning your rationality in effecting a repair - don't worry, you're among friends - we're all a bit barking mad. I'll spend half a day trying to mend a toaster than I could replace for a tenner. It's not as though I have time on my hands and nothing to do with it! In my case, it's a generational thing - it has nothing to do with rational thought or economics - it's that my brain is hard wired to the 'Make do and Mend' era, having grown up in the 1940s and 50s. Rationing didn't end until I left school in 1954, but it made little difference if you didn't have the money to buy stuff.
I guess that at times, we all spend far more restoring some radios than they're ever worth were we to sell them. Indeed, from a purely financial point of view, it would make more sense to remove the valves, the output transformer, dial and speaker, sell them individually and throw the radio away. But fortunately, that's not how we are 'programmed' or why we are in the hobby. It's not about economics - few hobbes are - it's about the enjoyable relaxing (if often challenging and frustrating!) use of our scace leisure time. At least I think so.
Regards, David.
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BVWS Member.
G-QRP Club Member 1339.
'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'
