Today I received.....

[thecellartroll]

A proper 90s boom box for playing MOD files.

Poor thing has been in the wars and is totally filthy but it sounds effing awesome!

[davehill]

A very nice BBC Model B with Econet installed. I have never owned a Model B before.

A floppy drive for the BBC

and another great case for a Raspberry PI 4 that runs RISC OS 5. (I still need to screw the PI in hence the loose lid )

All from @ukwebb ! Great helpful guy, who bought me a coffee too! Thanks mate, really appreciate all the effort on these!

David

[Ronin47]

An AUI to 10BaseT adapter for my A5000:

Just got to get it all hooked up and working.

[DaveLecky]

A nice wee electron, with a very dirty keyboard……. and a few keys not working

See second photo for solution to faulty keys…..D13 has a broken leg.

looks like someone was sick as a parrot…..

[Ronin47]

A bumper delivery today:

Caps for my Saturn, composite mod for my Intellivision, ULIfAC for my CPC and I don't think the book needs any introduction.

[james]

A dusty, but functional Voltmace Delta 3b (original price £12.00 on the box) and an IFEL battery-backed RAM ROM cartridge

[Ronin47]

Some Intellivision carts that arrived today:

Both complete in box (Though scruffy) with inlays and instructions.

[Ukwebb]

A dusty, but functional Voltmace Delta 3b (original price £12.00 on the box) and an IFEL battery-backed RAM ROM cartridge

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FYI...
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[NickLuvsRetro]

Collected this gorgeous A5000 Alpha (8MB) from Sarah at ABUG this weekend. At the event steve3000 very kindly did the filter modification for it. Much playing of demos ensued.

[Multiwizard]

Collected this gorgeous A5000 Alpha (8MB) from Sarah at ABUG this weekend. At the event steve3000 very kindly did the filter modification for it. Much playing of demos ensued.

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Very nice...

[jms2]

A nice wee electron, with a very dirty keyboard……. and a few keys not working
See second photo for solution to faulty keys…..D13 has a broken leg.

That's interesting Dave - I'm just looking at an Electron where all the keys in column 0, P, ;, \ are only working intermittently. There must be some common failure mode and a dry joint or something the diode could be it. I assume this one had a column which wasn't working at all?

[NickLuvsRetro]

Fear not, I'm not jumping ship to this up-and-coming new kid on the block. A bit of revision for some reverse-engineering. One of these is widely available online, I might scan the other. I just love my physical books.

Very nice...

I just hope I can write some stuff to do it proper justice.

[NickLuvsRetro]

Drove out to a village tonight to pick up a lot of stuff... including a very grotty 1040 STE, but I rather like this! (and there's some disks locked in a metal container that might be worth greaseweazling... perhaps some state secrets from the early 90s )

[james]

an IFEL battery-backed RAM ROM cartridge

FYI...
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And here is that cartridge case. Nice.

[IanJeffray]

...a single missing Caps Lock key from CJE.

It's not always the big fancy things that make a machine - every part counts.

[letiss]

Econet kit: PiEconetBridge and hub, two ADF-10s, a PicoNet and cables

[dhoggan]

A BBC Model B Issue 3!

I finally gave up ever being able to repair my issue 3 board and managed to pick up a complete one, minus PSU, for basically what a professional repair would have cost. Came as tested with a 1770 controller I've not seen before.

The guy had a few Beebs and my one ask was that it be as original and untouched as possible. I think it cleaned up rather well!

The case above had the usual 40 years of grime on it but gentle application of baking soda managed to get into the textured case's nook and crannies. The keyboard, well, was a more than a little grubby...

[tricky]

Looks great

[Ronin47]

A complete Electron board and internal PSU, hopefully I can get my sad broken Electron back up and running again

Arrived in the post just now, unpacked and warming up in my workshop

[daveejhitchins]

Arrived in the post just now, unpacked and warming up in my workshop

So . . . Does it work? - Dave H.

[Ronin47]

Arrived in the post just now, unpacked and warming up in my workshop

So . . . Does it work? - Dave H.

Indeed it does

Though the keyboard cable in the dead machine it was going in was fairly awful, so I had to do a rewire, and also some of the key switches needed a dose of electrolube to get going again.

Aside from being very yellowed, it's all running fine and just needs to be reassembled.

[daveejhitchins]

Arrived in the post just now, unpacked and warming up in my workshop

So . . . Does it work? - Dave H.

Indeed it does

Excellent . . . Dave H.

[Ronin47]

So . . . Does it work? - Dave H.

Indeed it does

Excellent . . . Dave H.

All finished and working lovely, though a few of the keys needed the switches servicing.

Seen here with its less yellow sibling:

[jgharston]

My radio operator's licence!

[baz4096]

Congratulations Jonathan!

That reminds me, I meant to post this nice find, from a charity shop in Ripon this weekend. Not strictly speaking vintage, but a nice Kent Engineers Hand Morse Key, minus a couple of parts I’m hoping to buy replacements for.

[Simon]

Awesome Jonathan!

[Multiwizard]

My radio operator's licence!

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Indeed, congrats Jonathan...

I never came that far but I still have all my CB transceivers from the 80's...

[Louis.m]

My radio operator's licence!

Most sincere Congratulations

Sorry for my late response (I didn't visit the *. site for several weeks).

[RonT]

Today I received what our American cousins refer to as a "desaddering" station.

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It works too, although the fan is noisy.

Here is a 40 pin DIL removed:

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And the chip is perfectly useable once the lags are cleaned up a little.

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Elapsed time about 10 minutes. Try that with a sucker and wick!

I’m very late to this thread. I’ve just bought one of these and I’m having issues. Can I ask what temp do you set it to and apart from regularly cleaning the nozzle, how do you maintain max suction pressure?

[IanJeffray]

Can I ask what temp do you set it to and apart from regularly cleaning the nozzle, how do you maintain max suction pressure?

I use about 360C usually. I hated the thing until I honed my technique: Get the iron up to temperature. Carefully and gently but accurately (perfectly perpendicular to the board) apply the nozzle over the joint and apply only very light pressure. WAIT until the solder has melted (not instantly and nominally less than 3 seconds) - then activate the suction, whilst wiggling the gun around the leg. Lift and then stop the suction. Clean out the nozzle every 10 joints or so and also always before powering off.

Too much force and boards are easily damaged. Suck too early and it won’t clean out the joint. No wiggling and only one side of the joint will be cleaned.