MrWolf Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 It looks like a power supply unit of the type once used in schools and laboratories to demonstrate / prove low voltage electrical / electronic circuits. It looks like it's seen the hands of monkeys more than once. Build your own enigma machine! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 4 minutes ago, MrWolf said: It looks like a power supply unit of the type once used in schools and laboratories to demonstrate / prove low voltage electrical / electronic circuits. It looks like it's seen the hands of monkeys more than once. Build your own enigma machine! So, plug this into your model railway and watch you prized locos go up in smoke!? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul H Vigor Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 8 minutes ago, MrWolf said: It looks like a power supply unit of the type once used in schools and laboratories to demonstrate / prove low voltage electrical / electronic circuits. It looks like it's seen the hands of monkeys more than once. Build your own enigma machine! The dial comprises extinct radio stations?? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2022 I'm watching this as there is a museum in Chelmsford with a lot of Marconi exhibits. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 11 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: I'm watching this as there is a museum in Chelmsford with a lot of Marconi exhibits. There is indeed and I wonder what happened to the mid 50s ex Marconi Commer Superpoise van that was parked up in Chelmsford about twenty years ago. It was supposedly saved for restoration. My grandfather worked for both Marconi and BTH on military projects in the thirties and forties, so I suspect that's where I got my interest in vintage radios etc from. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWolf Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Paul H Vigor said: The dial comprises extinct radio stations?? You're right. Sorry about that, I borrowed the memdahibs phone so that I could enlarge the images and actually read the dial. It's a suitcase radio from the early fifties. Again the type of thing used in schools to demonstrate the principles of radio. I did at one point have a radio in an ugly plywood box made I think by HMV that was sold under the name "Schools model" The case was about 5/8" thick. A tough life anticipated! It would definitely melt your trains! Edit: Actually, it was a Clarke and Smith, not HMV. Edited January 16, 2022 by MrWolf Picture no attach! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 (edited) Looking at the condition of the external wiring and plug on the Marconiphone receiver, I would suggest that it was "foolhardy" to plug the thing into the mains! The socket above the tuning dial is probably for an external aerial, but the radio would be non-functional because the tuning condenser appears to be missing... I had an early 60s transistor radio with a similar finish ( when those sorts of things turned up in jumble sales). Plywood case, a 6" Elac speaker, OC series transistors (45,71,81), big square EverReady 9v battery and a ferrite rod aerial. It died when it fell off a shelf, fracturing the ferrite rod. Edited January 16, 2022 by Hroth Stream of consciousness post (early AM) edited for coherence... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2022 7 hours ago, Paul H Vigor said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393866835859?hash=item5bb44af793:g:CGAAAOSwvUVh3ybD Am I looking at a Marconiphone wireless/radio? Having said, if you stripped that out and built a open frame Gaugemaster analogue controller inside... that would look cool 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2022 11 hours ago, cessna152towser said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284604598139? Second hand Hornby Thomas rolling stock is becoming more expensive. If you think that's bad, have a look at the prices for n gauge Thomas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2022 Any wagon collectors around with £1700 to spare: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100-N-gauge-HAA-HEA-CEA-wagons-boxed-/125102992110? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmacc Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 28 minutes ago, rab said: Any wagon collectors around with £1700 to spare: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100-N-gauge-HAA-HEA-CEA-wagons-boxed-/125102992110? At 16.49 each it’s hardly a bulk saving. That said the postage savings versus a piecemeal accrual would be immense! At least it’s a coherent collection that someone with grand plans could use… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 2 hours ago, ianmacc said: At 16.49 each it’s hardly a bulk saving. That said the postage savings versus a piecemeal accrual would be immense! At least it’s a coherent collection that someone with grand plans could use… He/she has got "make offer", so give 'em a bid. Start low and test the water from the counter-offer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 3 hours ago, rab said: Any wagon collectors around with £1700 to spare: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100-N-gauge-HAA-HEA-CEA-wagons-boxed-/125102992110? Have you had a look at his other items? They all qualify for an Ebay Madness accolade! Do you think the vendor is taking the piss ? 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2022 Thankfully they are unused... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 6 minutes ago, John Besley said: Thankfully they are unused... Thing is, you can get a unisex portable urinal for less than £6.20 including delivery, cheaper than his delivery charge alone! 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmacc Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I’m wondering if some of those items are drop selling. I’d never heard of this until a few pages of this thread back but it’s now something I’m wary of. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2022 Thomas the Fairlie Engine Cheers Darius 2 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 15 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Thomas the Fairlie Engine Cheers Darius Its a Double Nellie !! 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Thomas the Fairlie Engine Cheers Darius As the body is clearly two "Nellies" it should properly be described as Triang-Bachmann. And as there's no motion work, it must be a Bo-Bo of some sort, rather than an 0-4-0+0-4-0. But it is cute, and if it runs well... I wonder what the mechanism is from? @Michael Hodgson So long as it's not a Wet Nellie... Edited January 16, 2022 by Hroth 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2022 Not sure what to say about this one… The only relation to Phoenix I can think of is that it should be returned to the flames from which it rose. Cheers Darius 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, Darius43 said: Not sure what to say about this one… The only relation to Phoenix I can think of is that it should be returned to the flames from which it rose. Cheers Darius Someone wanted a DMU and grafted the ends of a Dapol (or Airfix) railbus kit onto a B Set and popped a spares-box motor bogie into it? They'd have done better to motorise a pair of Autocoaches! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 6 minutes ago, Hroth said: Someone wanted a DMU and grafted the ends of a Dapol (or Airfix) railbus kit onto a B Set and popped a spares-box motor bogie into it? They'd have done better to motorise a pair of Autocoaches! I like it! Got the look of a class 310! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, 33C said: I like it! Got the look of a class 310! Only if you close one eye and squint. On second thoughts, close both eyes. Cheers Darius 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 16, 2022 25 minutes ago, Hroth said: I wonder what the mechanism is from? Underground Ernie? Mike. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 16, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2022 It might have worked if they had got the filler out and matched the roof profile. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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