DAC90a De Spidering etc.

[Shaman]

           

I bought this set from Huddersfield, no not Colin. I have never seen a radio with so many spiders, and spiders webs, they must have chain smoked too, please have a look at this lot, by the way the set still works a treat, there are more photos of the set as it is now shiny and running cool

       
Alan.

[Tedzed1]

Crikey Alan, that nicotine looks likes rust at first glance, I bet when the spiders left they needed a nicotine patch to help
with the withdrawal symptoms.

[Shaman]

Hi Paul, it was nicotene covered inside, as brown as brown can be, it nearly went into the dishwasher, but i guess that would have finished it, its good for tuning caps and other bits you want cleaned but ift,s dont like it i guess even after drying fully the fine litz wire inside corrodes.....Alan

[singlepentode69]

Dac 90s are a lovely set to have. They always seem to attract spiders maybe they seem a good cosy home until the ht gets to them they scrub up we'll though.
Robin

[Nick]

10/10 for that - lovely job. Impressive clean-up.

Just re-starting on mine - its just a big box of bit at the moment - last bit I needed arrived yesterday...

[Geaney]

Nice one Alan, that was some serious cobwebbery (?) to deal with. Looks lovely now though.

Cheers, John

[Mark R]

is cobwebbery a real word?..........sorry do not discuss, just me

cheers Mark

[Mark R]

I have just realised my mistake.
John has invented a word in radio restoration circles,
Well done that man!

cheers Mark

[Yorkie]

is cobwebbery a real word?.....

cheers Mark

Good morrow fellow 'Gobornians'

Well it is a sort of word, though in the strict terms of the OED, it would be classed as a 'non-word' which might seem a contradiction in terms, (an oxymoron even), but simply means that over time, it's a word that hasn't been in use extensively enough to gain entery into the dictionary. (Once a word goes into the OED, it's never removed).

There is in fact a limited company involved in web design called 'Cobwebbery Ltd':

http://www.cobwebbery.co.uk/about-cobwebbery.asp

And there is evidence of the word being used back to 1829.

It's also accepted as a word that can be used in Scrabble:

http://www.solverscrabble.com/words-with...obwebbery/

Seems an excellent word to my mind to describe cleaning up old radios as in: 'It was all cobwebby inside, and when I'd removed all the cobwebbery, it came up like new again'. Can't think of a better word

'Cobwebby' is cetainly an adjective found in the OED, and cobweb - a word made from 'cob' and 'web' - is itself a very old word.

Cob (14C) is from 'coppe' meaning spider in Old English, related to Middle Dutch 'koppe' and Swedish dialect 'koppa'.

'Web' is from Old English 'webb' related to Old Saxon and Old High German 'webbi', and Old Norse 'vetr'.

How those cobwebbery old geezers who found their way here from foreign shores, bringing their words with them, would marvel if they could return and find that there's now a 'world wide web'!

Dribbled and waffled Yorkie.

[Joe]

Thanks for that, David. I've always wondered why they are called cobwebs when they are produced by spiders rather than stocky horses.

- Joe