fonografmaniac
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one of the last stereo console ever produced
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I remember those things...
I do remember those things. In Chicago, the COLORTYME rental firm used to "rent to own" those things.
In person, the unit actually is really cheap looking and wasn't true to the Curtis-Mathes code of quality we all came to know and love.
I do remember those things. In Chicago, the COLORTYME rental firm used to "rent to own" those things.
In person, the unit actually is really cheap looking and wasn't true to the Curtis-Mathes code of quality we all came to know and love.
alanlendaro
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"Needs a RED gun tube"
Gee, I think that means a new picture tube!
Gee, I think that means a new picture tube!
whirlcool
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I saw that as well. I could just see someone looking for a red gun foe their picture tube. Not surprisingly, I'm willing to bet that you could find a new CRT for that set.
Wasn't their logo "Curtis Mathes, the most expensive set in the world, and darned well worth it"? The company has somewhat of an interesting history.
Unfortunately, George Curtis Mathes, the president of the company was lost in the Air Canada Flight 797 in flight fire.
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Wasn't their logo "Curtis Mathes, the most expensive set in the world, and darned well worth it"? The company has somewhat of an interesting history.
Unfortunately, George Curtis Mathes, the president of the company was lost in the Air Canada Flight 797 in flight fire.
Curtis Mathes Corporation - Wikipedia
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another genius in ebayland
did you notice that this boob started this auction out at $9.99, with NO reserve, but have a buy it now price of $199.99!
did you notice that this boob started this auction out at $9.99, with NO reserve, but have a buy it now price of $199.99!
Yes,the TV will need another tube-or maybe the Red drive and screen could be turned up-might get a little more out the jug.The TT and electronics in that unit do look a bit "cheap"Is that a PLASTIC BSR TT?It does have the umbrella spindle and pusher platform.
I had one just like that
I had one just like that not that long ago. Until some idiot(me) was trying to move it and happened to break the back of the picture tube. sigh. problems of not having anyone to help move furniture, no truck, and not enough room. I learned my lesson. I ended up just taking the radio, 8trck player and record player out of it and scraping the rest.
I had one just like that not that long ago. Until some idiot(me) was trying to move it and happened to break the back of the picture tube. sigh. problems of not having anyone to help move furniture, no truck, and not enough room. I learned my lesson. I ended up just taking the radio, 8trck player and record player out of it and scraping the rest.
Gee Whirlcool...
What an odd coincidence! Just the other day Whirlcool, I'm sure I was reading the NFPA report on that airplane fire. If I recall, that was a 1968 model plane that had to be reworked after the rear cone flew off. After extensive repairs, it went into service until the bathroom caught fire.
I'm not in the airline business, nor am I employed by NFPA. However I AM involved with product failure issues - hence my studies of electrical failures.
... Let me tell you, that report DIDN'T help my fear of flying. But hey, my little white pills get me through the days that I fly. Let's face it though - that plane was old. And they should have checked the bathroom before they reset the circuit breakers to the toilet motor.
What an odd coincidence! Just the other day Whirlcool, I'm sure I was reading the NFPA report on that airplane fire. If I recall, that was a 1968 model plane that had to be reworked after the rear cone flew off. After extensive repairs, it went into service until the bathroom caught fire.
I'm not in the airline business, nor am I employed by NFPA. However I AM involved with product failure issues - hence my studies of electrical failures.
... Let me tell you, that report DIDN'T help my fear of flying. But hey, my little white pills get me through the days that I fly. Let's face it though - that plane was old. And they should have checked the bathroom before they reset the circuit breakers to the toilet motor.
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Failure Analysis
and that Air Alaska MD-83 that went down in the pacific probably could have made it into LAX had the pilots not screwed excessively with the trim controls on the horizaontal stabilizer. But that's just speculation on my part. After they first discovered the problem they played with the trim hydraulics circuit breakers quite a number of times trying to correct the problem. Doing this just speeded up the total failure of the jackscrew.
and that Air Alaska MD-83 that went down in the pacific probably could have made it into LAX had the pilots not screwed excessively with the trim controls on the horizaontal stabilizer. But that's just speculation on my part. After they first discovered the problem they played with the trim hydraulics circuit breakers quite a number of times trying to correct the problem. Doing this just speeded up the total failure of the jackscrew.
Failure analysis is interesting
Have to admit, though we don't like hearing about failures... Failure analysis IS interesting.
For me, failures keep the food on the table.
Thanks Whirlcool for the responses and telling us the "plane" truth! LOL.
Have to admit, though we don't like hearing about failures... Failure analysis IS interesting.
For me, failures keep the food on the table.
Thanks Whirlcool for the responses and telling us the "plane" truth! LOL.
Paul, I don't think you have anything to worry about riding in an airplane really, yes, they do put some unnatural g-forces on the body, but they are quite safe when one considers the risk of driving!
Airline pilots are highly trained with hundreds of hours...automobile drivers get basically zero hours of training...all you need to do to get a license these days is remember a few drunk-driving statistics, and what a few signs mean! The numbers tell it all! Only a few hundred a year die in planes, but over 38,000 die in automobiles every year! Worried about that toilet motor? Well, you ought to be more worried about that redneck behind you in the old pickup truck that repaired his brakes himself using water hose and used cooking oil!
I am one that enjoys investigating failures...well, it's part of my job as an electronics technician. In electronics, perhaps 50 percent of the failures are due to bad engineering, another 25% due to poor craftsmanship, and another 25% due to user abuse. China however is moving the bar around...it's now 50% bad engineering, and 50% poor craftsmanship...usually the stuff breaks before the customer has a chance to abuse it nowadays!!!!
As far as airline crashes go, well many of them are due to mechanical failure, or external forces (weather, terrorism) Pilots are trained pretty good, and many of them end up landing planes without incident when components malfunction. The good ones that do this, well, you don't hear about them because they are not newsworthy. They quietly flip a switch and kick in an auxilary or something, and you are sitting there in the cabin relaxing as you cruise away blissfully.
The exact opposite is true with automobiles, where the drivers have zero qualifications, and most crashes are caused by operator error!!!
As you can probably tell by now, I'm the exact opposite of most people. The average person is more apprehensive about flying than they are about driving. Being a bit autistic, I tend to look at things in a more logical approach, and the statistics for automobile crashes is pretty frightening to me! Enough that it makes me quite nervous every time I must hit Interstate 95 and trek up to DC among all the manics out there talking on phones, and what not in their cars, swerving, cutting people off, tailgating, speeding, and whatever else....you don't see airplanes doing that crap, that's for sure!!! I take automotive safety very seriously, but unfortunately, the rest of the country doesn't. I wish we put as much a fraction of a percentage into making our roads as safe as we do our skies!
We had 33 people killed senselessly at VA Tech last spring. We are still talking about it, and the site where it happened is going to be forever memorialized. In your home state this weekend, chances are that many people will be picked off the highway and nary a word will even be printed about it outside of the police reports. All the talk about it will be "inconvenience" the resulting traffic jams caused. The memorial? just a few tire marks on the road that will be covered up with the next coat of asphalt.
...it just staggers my mind how casual we are about automotive carnage!
Airline pilots are highly trained with hundreds of hours...automobile drivers get basically zero hours of training...all you need to do to get a license these days is remember a few drunk-driving statistics, and what a few signs mean! The numbers tell it all! Only a few hundred a year die in planes, but over 38,000 die in automobiles every year! Worried about that toilet motor? Well, you ought to be more worried about that redneck behind you in the old pickup truck that repaired his brakes himself using water hose and used cooking oil!
I am one that enjoys investigating failures...well, it's part of my job as an electronics technician. In electronics, perhaps 50 percent of the failures are due to bad engineering, another 25% due to poor craftsmanship, and another 25% due to user abuse. China however is moving the bar around...it's now 50% bad engineering, and 50% poor craftsmanship...usually the stuff breaks before the customer has a chance to abuse it nowadays!!!!
As far as airline crashes go, well many of them are due to mechanical failure, or external forces (weather, terrorism) Pilots are trained pretty good, and many of them end up landing planes without incident when components malfunction. The good ones that do this, well, you don't hear about them because they are not newsworthy. They quietly flip a switch and kick in an auxilary or something, and you are sitting there in the cabin relaxing as you cruise away blissfully.
The exact opposite is true with automobiles, where the drivers have zero qualifications, and most crashes are caused by operator error!!!
As you can probably tell by now, I'm the exact opposite of most people. The average person is more apprehensive about flying than they are about driving. Being a bit autistic, I tend to look at things in a more logical approach, and the statistics for automobile crashes is pretty frightening to me! Enough that it makes me quite nervous every time I must hit Interstate 95 and trek up to DC among all the manics out there talking on phones, and what not in their cars, swerving, cutting people off, tailgating, speeding, and whatever else....you don't see airplanes doing that crap, that's for sure!!! I take automotive safety very seriously, but unfortunately, the rest of the country doesn't. I wish we put as much a fraction of a percentage into making our roads as safe as we do our skies!
We had 33 people killed senselessly at VA Tech last spring. We are still talking about it, and the site where it happened is going to be forever memorialized. In your home state this weekend, chances are that many people will be picked off the highway and nary a word will even be printed about it outside of the police reports. All the talk about it will be "inconvenience" the resulting traffic jams caused. The memorial? just a few tire marks on the road that will be covered up with the next coat of asphalt.
...it just staggers my mind how casual we are about automotive carnage!
Agreed. Flying is safe.
Thank you Cybrvanr for your info. And I completely agree that airline travel is safe versus road travel.
I consider myself to be a very safe driver. However, the frequency of bad driving due to cell phone use is freaking me out. I watch the cell phone drivers on the road. SO MANY of them drift and swerve it truly is scary. I NEVER use the cell phone while I drive. Driving comes first and I must be very careful to save my fanny. It is clear that the public's driving skills today is FAR WORSE than ever before.
Back to fear of flying...one cannot successfully apply logic to feelings. I still feel on edge while flying as I am out of control of the circumstances I'm in. Can't overcome that without XANAX - though I tried. I truly CAN FLY without XANAX quite successfully - but XANAX provides a "quality of experience" that is much better with than without. Sure its a band-aid fix for a flaw in me - buy hey, I am not perfect! (Almost.... LOL)
Thank you Cybrvanr for your info. And I completely agree that airline travel is safe versus road travel.
I consider myself to be a very safe driver. However, the frequency of bad driving due to cell phone use is freaking me out. I watch the cell phone drivers on the road. SO MANY of them drift and swerve it truly is scary. I NEVER use the cell phone while I drive. Driving comes first and I must be very careful to save my fanny. It is clear that the public's driving skills today is FAR WORSE than ever before.
Back to fear of flying...one cannot successfully apply logic to feelings. I still feel on edge while flying as I am out of control of the circumstances I'm in. Can't overcome that without XANAX - though I tried. I truly CAN FLY without XANAX quite successfully - but XANAX provides a "quality of experience" that is much better with than without. Sure its a band-aid fix for a flaw in me - buy hey, I am not perfect! (Almost.... LOL)
