What have you ordered from eBay today?

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  1. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    If you have any ideas how to fix the auto on my Dansette, then I can stop being grumpy about the Bush RP60 that I'd agreed to buy and collect from Eastleigh on Monday, and the bloke messaged to say he'd sold it to someone else instead (he was soooo sorry. grrrr). Then I can stop trying to cheer myself up by looking at more costly RP50s on eBay. ( I hate FB marketplace, no one has any honour or decency anymore!)
     
    scrooge95, Sep 30, 2023
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  2. snotty

    snotty

    What bit of "auto" doesn't work? Likely to be something purely mechanical. Could lift the turntable off and have a squint for anything that may have dropped off.

    Don't go poking when it's turned on, as these things are pretty cheaply made and are likely to have a live chassis. Don't want to light up like a christmas tree! The electronics is pretty easy to fix. Getting a replacement cartridge that doesn't shave your LPs likely to be more difficult.
     
    snotty, Sep 30, 2023
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  3. art b

    art b

    CD player has no such problems.. ;)
     
    art b, Sep 30, 2023
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  4. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    I have been inspired now to lift the turntable off and have a poke. Nothing appears to have dropped off, but I've fiddled and furkled and lubricated.
    It used to work...
    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWMxaikYnXwMIW0-JMKWntyr_38ARvKzR&si=9k0mZdsv4-i4UeMn
     
    scrooge95, Sep 30, 2023
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  5. snotty

    snotty

    Well, there's your mistake. Always lubricate before furkling, or indeed, fiddling.

    Does the turntable actually go round when you turn it on? If it does, all the rest of the 500 levers and things should do their thing.
     
    snotty, Sep 30, 2023
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  6. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    It might be working now.....
    I don't know what I did, but it may have worked!
    (I'm now on a bus after an afternoon beer festival, so my recollection of my exact turntable fixing procedure may be slightly impaired, and possible not reliable!)
     
    scrooge95, Sep 30, 2023
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  7. snotty

    snotty

    Find a nice park bench to have a bit of a lie-down ;)
     
    snotty, Sep 30, 2023
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  8. Meltman

    Meltman Sprout Lover

    Nice bit of firkling young lady.
     
    Meltman, Sep 30, 2023
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  9. snotty

    snotty

    Hampshire Firkling Champion two years running :thumbsup:
     
    snotty, Sep 30, 2023
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  10. mikedjames

    mikedjames Supporter

    By now on a lot of CD players the laser is well on it's way out, and the tray loader drive belt is stretched..
    And the first generation silver on glass CDs will be tarnished to unplayable. Unlike shellac and vinyl discs.
     
    mikedjames, Sep 30, 2023
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  11. snotty

    snotty

    An odd one, but I couldn't resist: a Commodore SR-4148 calculator. My old one saw me through Uni and many years after. A sentimental purchase, even tho' PCalc on my iPhone could calculate the pants off it. I suspect it'll need new NiCads.

    cbm calc.jpg
     
    snotty, Oct 4, 2023
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  12. Dubs

    Dubs Sponsor supporter extraordinaire

    Nice. But can it spell BooBS?
     
    Dubs, Oct 4, 2023
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  13. Soggz

    Soggz Supporter

    I ordered a pair of front fork bike bags for bike packing, to distribute the weight a bit more evenly on my push bike. Ain’t got here yet…
     
    Soggz, Oct 4, 2023
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  14. Dubs

    Dubs Sponsor supporter extraordinaire

    A set of 5 Ford Granada alloys, painted gold :sick:
     
    Dubs, Oct 4, 2023
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  15. snotty

    snotty

    Of course! The standard test for a calculator.
     
    snotty, Oct 4, 2023
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  16. Soggz

    Soggz Supporter

    What oil. Shell or Esso…:D
     
    Soggz, Oct 4, 2023
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  17. snotty

    snotty

    Have you been watching The Sweeney again :rolleyes:?
     
    snotty, Oct 4, 2023
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  18. snotty

    snotty

    Gah! Just tried 5318008 on PCalc, and the wag that wrote it puts "Censored!" on the display when you turn the phone upside down :rolleyes:

    In my day, we had to make our own entertainment...
     
    Last edited: Oct 4, 2023
    snotty, Oct 4, 2023
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  19. art b

    art b

    Get a shopping basket... :D
     
    art b, Oct 4, 2023
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  20. Soggz

    Soggz Supporter

    For the cat?
     
    Soggz, Oct 5, 2023
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