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I need a lift to the USA for an unframed A4 painting. Anyone travelling thataway and willing to stick an envelope with the painting in his laptop bag for me? Collection to be arranged by the lady who wants the painting, so I will just need a collection address as well.

Anyone else been banned from these two sites due to ISP IP range hammering? Seems like there is no way to get my account active again.

While I have a myriad of other projects to attend to, our mates in the underworld of energy supply is forcing my hand a bit ... 😡 It is time to complete the hybrid system I designed and started installing over the last two years. As things are, the original design was based on obtaining energy...

While working on my Pajero restoration project I ran into an issue where there is a white metal bush found in the extension housing of the transfer case. In my case, this bush is well worn and I need to replace it. Unfortunately the agents only sell the whole extension housing and not the loose...

I am repairing/restoring a number of Print PCBs for a Picanol Weaving loom. Am I correct in thinking that the two silver capacitors are tantalum capacitors? They are marked as Kemet and then 1UF or 4R7uF at 35V 20%. Let me know your thoughts please as the current values are way out of spec...

With the lockdown period causing havoc all over the world, it wrecked all my plans to move to New Zealand and take up a very nice position there in Queenstown. This side, with my business closed down, I had a lot of time to think about where to now. So ... I think I should pour my time and...

To start off, a bit of history on this topic. I bought a Colchester Student lathe a few years back for next to nothing and it has not worked a lot as it was super noisy and had a bad vibration when turning. A few months back the electrical switch at the back broke and this started a whole...

Has any of you done successful bakelite repair? And no superglue does not work. Let me know please!

My apologies to post a link here, but this is rather urgent. Can someone that knows, please look here and assist me if possible? https://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,85182.0.html

Hi, does anyone here know a lot about AVR wiring and replacement in a three phase genset? The lightning hit my house and this was one of the gazillion things that was fried. The genset is Chinese and I need to understand which type to purchase and how to wire it in. Many thanks!

I have been very quiet on my Quad 33 and Quad 303 restoration threads mainly because I have been spending most of my spare time designing and installing a household sized water purification system. The design incorporates the following components: [list type=decimal] Rainwater harvesting to a...

I was getting a bit tired of the silence in my workshop that doubles up as my garage. So ... I made myself a deal, I will install some sound on a budget of less than R1000 using everything I have. So here it is. Sounding excellent I must say. I am very hesitant to say it sounds better than my...

Hi, I want to send a small tube with a rolled up canvas painting with someone to Australia for a friend. If someone can assist I would really appreciate it.

I need to replace the AVR on my generator and need some wisdom in choosing a reliable product. Gennie specs - 3 phase, slip rings, 12kW.

I have been donated a CEC BD-515 turntable to upgrade to a very high end turntable. I am looking for any manuals and or specifications regarding this Japanese turntable. I have posted with photos on Vinyl Engine and Audio Karma as well with no usable information provided except that it could...

I am looking for a supplier of machines screws with the following specifications for a restoration project of two Quad amplifiers: Thread 4BA Head - Cheese head (not pan head) Length - 1/4" Thread 2BA Head - Cheese head (not pan head) Length - 3 7/16" Thanks!

I see these knobs are advertised on a Facebook group I belong to. If anyone is interested let me know.

Does anyone know the value of a Garrard AT5 in very good condition?

This thread is about restoring the Quad 33 that was abandoned with this Quad 303. Corrosion is really bad and I am a bit scared to open the lid ...

INSERT: Content: This is a new post inserted to list all of you who have donated towards the project. Any project can either be tackled alone or people can start owning part of it by contributing. I simply love it when others find a project interesting and want to contribute in some form or...