Can you tell what it is yet ?

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As Rolf Harris would say

A couple of hours spare, so why not ?

 

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Some Spare bits

 

[Analoguesat]

Echostar AD3000 VA

I think Ive still got mine from 15 or so years ago in a box in the garage. Cracking receiver at the time.

 

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Yes, they were.

I have at least three of them, sitting around doing not a lot.

 

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Not quite as Victor F would have liked, but I only had a couple of hours spare.

 

[2cvbloke]

Ah the component-securing conductive brown schmoo of death, that stuff is as much of a pain in old electronics as bad capacitors, got to pick it all off cos as it ages it acts like a resistor creating low-level short circuits, and then gradually more conductive until everything craps out...

 

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Some fettling and




It's ALIVE !