Britbike forum Forums General discussion The Rod and Tappet What other interests do you have ?

Ive alway been obsessed with muscle cars... Still have the 67 Chevelle SS that I bought when I was 18 and the vette my dad bought when I was 3... My car wish list is bigger than my bike wish list.

I am also obsessed with imagery... Not only do I make images for a living but I collect other photographers books and photographs... I still have every magazine I ever bought since 1988.... Unfortunately I threw away my childhood collection of Hot Rod magazines when I moved to NYC... Not sure why I brought them with me to a small apartment.... I dont have many regrets , but if thats the worst one then Im doing OK i think

I keep buying tools but I dont think its a hobby... But I like tools

Music for sure. Just alphabetized my vinyl collection. Funny how they compressed when I organized them. Now I have room for more
I used to play guitar but my son surpassed me and now has my guitars except for the first electric guitar I ever owned. A Les Paul that I traded for my first road going motorcycle .... Id like to get back into playing so will be on the look out for an old tube amp and gee-tar

I just love anything old. Old buildings ,old furniture , old cameras ,old everything I think.... Ill try to save it or collect it or hoard it... for good or for bad. (depends on who you ask) as in - dont ask my wife Can you say wabi-sabi

And definitely anything BSA.... If they made it I want it.... Id love a BSA lathe or milling machine or whatever.... I keep missing out on a BSA dealers ashtray .. I have a couple BSA bowls and glasses given out as door prizes at dealer meetings ..I have a 1928 BSA double barrel 12 gauge.... But there is so much more...

Id probably be crazy about WW2 planes if I had a bigger garage.

Woodworking, guitars, amplifiers, electronics, metal fabrication, printmaking, ceramics, baking, reading, live music, recorded music, record accumulation, good beer, cooking, reading, art, old machinery, archaeology, geology, film, philosophy, whisky (and whiskey), sewing, hiking, carpentry, the human diaspora, history, cosmology....

Like the tube amp! I bet it sounds nice. I have a nice vinyl collection and would love to have a tube amp. Now I have to settle for blue faced early 70s pioneer equipment.

Wow, what an eclectic list of hobbies and pastimes you lot have! Mine seem pretty meh! alongside most of ‘em.

Much to my wife’s eternal disappointment, no real motivation for home diy work. Rarely.

Apart from riding/talking bikes with buddies and driving the truck/car, I enjoy maintaining and buffing them up! A lot! Other buddies of mine shake their heads in disbelief.
Some yard work and gardening, sitting around the fire pit with the missus even!, beer or wine in hand, sometimes roasting and eating chestnuts while reading paper/iPad or listening to different music genres, also floats my boat.
Previously, enjoyed playing my drum kit (averagely) at various times during the past twenty some years. Not in a band setting but the occasional pub/club jam night, with friends and at home mostly. Need to clear some space eventually in this house and set them up again.

Telly watching is ok in small doses, depending what’s on. I do watch all the F1 races and root for Sir Lewis. Hurry up and start the season!
Oh, no interest in team sports especially any version of football, sorry. 😏

Totally unexpected by me as a recently retired career tool/instrument maker, I do miss making and fixing that stuff.

I have a couple of old Fisher tube receivers. One of them uses output tubes which are no longer made. I was able to find some from some guy in New Jersey, but something in the power circuit is wrong. Plate voltage starts at 450v but slowly climbs to over 500v. Just try to find some of those old three-legged capacitors to fix that. I found one tube for the discriminator section of the tuner at a local TV repair place. I could use it as a preamp, that much still works.
I always wanted a bi-amped system using a tube amp for highs and solid state for bass. The low damping factor of tubes just makes for sloppy bass.

I hope MB can field a competitive team this year, I miss the hero drives that Lewis put in the last few years (Like the 2021 drive at Interlagos!!!). Lots of new faces on the grid this year should be exciting though.

I make it rule not to offer unsolicited advice, but I likely can help you out with getting both the tubes and caps if you'd like it. Just hit me up. Depending on the model Fisher, it's probably time to replace the selenium rectifier too, if that hasn't been done already.

We should start a guitar thread on here. Me, Gibson Les Paul, Clapton Strat I barely use. Vox AC30 tube amp and lots of pedals. Acoustic stuff is an old 70’s Espania, and a newer Merida Venus. Love guitars. A friend has one of Carlos Santana’s old guitars.

I want to see the top half of the F1 grid being MUCH tighter and spreading the podium finishes more evenly. Same with the bottom half, the last few years have been sickening to see such disparity.

Thanks
The output tubes are 7868, pretty much a 7591 with a smaller base. I was able to buy four of those from the guy in Jersey. Not sure of the model number, I bought it from the original owner who decided that it cost too much to refurbish. It's a 1965 model, probably about 60W output.
I'll look into the rectifier, I'm sure that it's never been replaced.
I grew up listening to the integrated amp version of this receiver. Dad always took that to some guy in the physics department at UT for service.
I still use one part of dad's stereo, an AR2 on woofer only makes a great sub woofer in my studio.

I started sneaking my Dads' arch-top "Silvertone" 6 string into my bedroom and beating out the bass line to "Louie Louie" when I was 13, He would stop by for a minute and show me a chord and or two then wander off. At 15 I worked a summer picking beans and strawberries and at the end of the season Dad helped out with about $100.00 and I bought a Regal "Grand Concert" guitar. That guitar was my companion through High School, 3 years in the Army, and countless sessions playing with my Dad and friends. It was my only guitar until my wife bought me a beautiful Cimar I'd fallen in love with in a local music store. it has "book-end" panels in the back, with knots that remind me of eyes and plays a treat. I've had that old Regal (Gertie) for 55 years now, The front is dished, a crack in the lower bout the frets are worn and the finger board has scallops worn in it for the 1st 4 frets. I seldom play her except when on camping trips now, as I have many much nicer boxes. I play an hour or so daily trying to keep the RA at bay and because I enjoy it. Maggie's got her pacifier, Linus his blanket, I play my guitar... today its a Taylor 814ce.

Gane wrote "I started sneaking my Dads' arch-top "Silvertone" 6 string into my bedroom and beating out the bass line to "Louie Louie" when I was 13,


I bet I can guess how old you are...........no family guitars in my house. My first was a $20 something or other.....you could almost pass your finger between the strings and fret board. But that Louie Louie base line was my first too. To be completely honest I haven't progressed very much since but I still enjoy it.

My dream is to own a Rick Turner Model 1..............IF......there's one available at the show this March..(in NC) .....and it's in my price range, I'm making that dream come true.

Rock on......................



I eventually was able to move up to a Silvertone.......pic says 1967 but with the looks of the haircut.....I had already been inducted into the service so that would have been early 68?

"It started out in 1963,
His mom wouldn't buy that new red Harmony,
He settled for a sunburst with a crack,
But he's still trying to break his mama's back.

It breaks my heart to see those stars smashing a perfectly good guitar."

John Hyatt

I wouldn't mind a fiver for every ac30 i repaired after a pint of beer was knocked over on top of it LOL.

I never did understand the musicians who showed up early and left their expensive instruments on stage while I'm still up on a ladder focusing lights. They get so upset when I tell them that, "Until your scheduled sound check, the stage is MINE!"

That's all very well unless the musician complaining about it is Angus Young or Bob Seger or Elton John .....

Lannis

For me, its synthesizers, music production, mountain biking, cooking, 3D printing, And currently getting very excited by analogue photography!

The musicians aren't complaining (unless I drop a C wrench on top of their Taylor.) But, my complaining, as a mere roady, is a "BAD ATTITUDE".
The stage is mine until you are scheduled to be there!
I am blessed that I never had to put up with Angus. I knew people in high school who could play better.
I did get to run lights for Robin Trower once. His stage manager didn't believe that I knew every song on the set list.

Hi Vincent,
Me too, it’s been agony watching them struggle so much after their prior successes while a certain other team ran away with it, especially after the 2021 season final race debacle.

Btw, I see you have/had a ‘72 TR6R as did I back in ‘74. Did the clutch and main bearings hold up?

It’s holding up great! Just shy of 15,000 miles on the odometer. I did a top end refresh this past summer, someone had been in there before me as it was already bored 10 over. I’m the third owner, the second purchased it from a close friend and barely rode it in his 20+ yrs of ownership so I suspect the original owner treated it well. It’s not perfect but it was my first Triumph and I love it dearly.

Well, that's good evidence that opinions about "good" guitarists are the ultimate in subjectivity.

He's been lead guitarist for one of the most popular rock bands in history for 50 years, he has tens of millions of fans worldwide, and his playing (backed up by the best rhythm engine-room anywhere) has got him up to a net worth north of a quarter of a billion dollars. Money isn't everything, but it's a thing.

Lannis

Looks great, same color as mine, brings back some memories for sure. Thanks for posting.

There have been many good rock guitarists, there have been very few great rock guitarists.

My definition of a great rock guitarist:

1) can create a unique sound for the time
2) can "hold" an audience for extended periods (not just a five minute guitar solo)
3) people will primarily buy tickets to see the guitarist, not the group

My list of great rock guitarists:

Hendrix
Wilko Johnson
Chuck Berry
Jeff Beck (probably)

Though I utterly worshiped AC/DC as a younger fellow, it took me a long while to realize this...

MALCOLM > ANGUS

Angus: "Best guitarist in the world? I'm not even the best guitarist in AC/DC!"


True, though, that one's notion of "best" or even "good" is utterly subjective... I would also humbly suggest that virtuosity does not necessarily equate to listenability.. (Lookin' at you, Yngwie)...

That has always been my position.

I want something that sounds nice to my ears, not intense riffs that nobody can hope to copy, but that go up and down the scales in completely un-melodic ways that mean nothing as far as "music" is concerned.

Intense, intricate, amazing sounds? Yes.
Music? NO.