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Tom.W
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:08 am Post subject: crteaman where are you ? |
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Paging crteaman... Please drop in and say hello 
And be kind to James as he knows his stuff ! 
Plus it's a long swim....
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crteaman
Joined: 27 Nov 2007
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Location: UK
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:58 am Post subject: |
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You rang????
He say's...toweling himself down, and removing his Speedo Goggles (normally reserved for tube implosion protection)....
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AnalogRocks
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Wow I sense a lurker. Congratulations on post number 10 in 4 years 
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crteaman
Joined: 27 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:45 am Post subject: |
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10 post's in 4 years??
Damn this temporal Amnesia of mine! 
At least I know one day...when I visit...it's Tom's pad I need to ask to use...and AR's car to borrow....
AR please tell me it's 'Your' car in the Avatar..and that you dont actually drive a 1970 AMC Pacer? (yeah i'm fussy bout these thing's).
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crteaman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Say...how come AR is up at a decent sensible, honest to god 'English' time....and the rest of you Bed-Bums ain't? (Tom).. 
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Tom.W
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| crteaman wrote: | You rang????
He say's...toweling himself down, and removing his Speedo Goggles (normally reserved for tube implosion protection).... |
So you had a good swim ? And people brag about swimming the English channel....
I'm claiming the the temporal amnesia thing by the way... At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it !
Nice to see you on this side of the pond James but a mere 10 posts 
P.S. Your choice of words is impeccable
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crteaman
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Ah ha....I was just typing as your post dropped 'on the mat'...
Ahem...Tom...my post count has increased by 50%..in 1 day!!!...now who..I repeat who will ever be able to beat that?
But I do demand AR should try...c'mon..it's only fair.
Not only have you got me here...and made me swim for it no less...but you actually just posted...and found me here at the same time...ye gad's..
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Tom.W
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All of a sudden I have this urge to go out and buy some fish and chips.........
As for AR are you up to the challenge ?
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crteaman
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Where's AR?...
Guess he's out trying to light up the rear end of that AMC Pacer??..if so...he will be watching the Polar ice caps melt before he get's a squeek out of the tyres
Whoa look at my post count climb guy's....
On a more serious note...boy have I got some CRT stories to tell you all....
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crteaman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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Ain't no way i'm letting you have Fish & Chips without making you a 'Cup o' Tea'... 
Yeah AR...step out through them Saloon doors...you got 24 hours to increase your post count by 50 % 
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Tom.W
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AR must be napping.....He must have been up all night tuning up the car.... James how about sharing a good CRT story in the meantime ?
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crteaman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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How about taking out a Cine 9 in the summer...which had covered just 200 hours in 5 years!
Wait...before I go on..quick version of what's been happening..as some..or indeed many of you may know, I used to work for Henry (CRTProjectors)..until two years ago..when I left (big whoo hoo) and now do my own thing...don't worry..not gonna say the name or push it on here....anyway....
Got your interest as an opening story?
My close frined Billy..(close in both friendship..and proximty....he lives a few hundred yards away)..has a Cine 9, which he has had maybe 6 years..it develpoed problems a couple of years back...but as Billy is friendly with Henry..I was not allowed (sadly) to step in and assist..
He was without it for 6 months...purchased one new board (£1,800 GBP...Trade) in the hope it would fix it...it ended up with more probs than it started with....and so..because of costs...it finally sat on his lounge floor.....
Ok I'm off to Bed now...part two sometime next week......
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Tom.W
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As the world turns...................................................................................................................................
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crteaman
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Ha ha...just kidding you...I shall continue..
Anyway...so there it sat..Billy skint..having spent a pile of cash on it (not just that one board) ...but..having paid over £15k for it plus the trade in of his ex 1209..some 5-6 years previous..he felt compelled not to abandon it....
So..I had a real HOT G808s here...but withPanny tubes... with high Bandwidth RGB amps (neck Boards as you guy's call em')...Contrast modulation..GOG..HDTV/Tri level Sync board...yada yada yada....
I hooked him up with that..and told him..Billy...wait..in time we will see another Cine 9..and will give yours life again....
What we kind of needed..was a running unit...with burnt tubes...so we could plug and play boards to find the exact problem..in fact..problems in more than one area..but we would have to play the waiting game....
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dvh99
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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yeah stop teasing us.
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crteaman
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Oh alrighty...you all twisted my arm..in Truth..had to spend a few mins with SWMBO..and have a 'Cup O' Tea' yeah..another..
Ok..so a waiting game then....a while ticked by...maybe 6 months..and another Cine 9 came up for purchase...another customer from Henry's CRTprojectors day's...but this time..it wasn't a running unit...it too had problems...and on top of all this..we had fitted a second set of tubes some 3 years before...and now these also were toasty Brown!
So...what to do...Cine 9's are as frequent as Halley's comet...yet what good was this?...and the guy still didnt want Chicken Feed for it either...what guy would? having spent nearly £30k GBP on sometinhg maybe 5 years before?
Tubes are no good for spares...and not a running unit...to enable to find the boards (Boards) fault....for Billy's sake..this time...we had to pass on it. So another appeared...not so long after the above mentioned unit...similar hours to Billy's..around 5,000..but the price was more than the Hours...and his pockets were getting empty again.....I knew the unit however...guess I got to play/install/tweak a large part (but by no means all) of the Cine 9's in the UK.
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crteaman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Shall I go on 
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crteaman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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ok...nearly midnight...and I have been summoned to the Boudoir....
More tomorrow..on the Cine 9 which finally came into our grasp.....
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crteaman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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PS ...that's Doubled my post count...in one day......
In truth..I really do have some good CRT tales for you all...but promise to finish the above first...but tomorrow...
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