The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

On the subject of valve tv sets. My BiL started his career as a repairman and weekly travelled Dumbarton to Kinlochleven to fix hired tv sets. He told the punters he had to take a faulty set back to Dumbarton for fixing but then did nothing to them. The bumping about in the back of his minivan usually got them working again.

When I was 9 or 10 I learned that the first thing to do to a faulty valve TV was to smack the top firmly. That would often revive it for another few weeks. I think the valves sometimes got loose in their sockets, or loose deposits formed on the electrodes in the valves.

 

[BoldonLad]

When I was 9 or 10 I learned that the first thing to do to a faulty valve TV was to smack the top firmly. That would often revive it for another few weeks. I think the valves sometimes got loose in their sockets, or loose deposits formed on the electrodes in the valves.

Valve TV sets! That takes me back a bit. We got our first TV, in 1958, I think it had valves? It was a 12" screen, do not recall the make, Cossor, perhaps?. I do know it cost 100 guineas! (ie £105), which was equivalent to about 8 weeks wages for my (ship-yard worker) Father at that time, I would guess, equivalent to about £4500 in relation to todays incomes.

 

[ColinJ]

Valve TV sets! That takes me back a bit. We got our first TV, in 1958, I think it had valves? It was a 12" screen, do not recall the make, Cossor, perhaps?. I do know it cost 100 guineas! (ie £105), which was equivalent to about 8 weeks wages for my (ship-yard worker) Father at that time, I would guess, equivalent to about £4500 in relation to todays incomes.

That was probably about when my parents bought ours and they were the first in the street to own one. Coronation Street started in 1960 and neighbours used to come round to watch it!

 

[12boy]

Won't be going anywhere for a while...supposed to snow for about 40 hours, but the first snow created an inch of glare ice that is slicker than the hubs of hell. I could get places ok but I would rather not be hit by other drivers. Unless the power or the internet fail we will be fine.
Howdy, davelincs. Bienvenido to our motley crew who remind me of an old cowboy verse which goes" wild and wooly and full of fleas....never been curried above the knees".
Mo, you should rightfully be proud of your Dad. I look up to those who do good things without tooting their own horn about it.
Dirk, once again great pics.
The only Dave in our family was my Dad's elder brother who was a physisist who worked on nuclear subs. He definitely followed the beat of his own drum. In 1963 he bought a Studebaker Avante, the world's fastest production car at that time. It was based on a compact car chassis, had a fiberglass body and a supercharged 289 cubic inch V8 that could go 178 mph stock, or so he said. He kept that car till his death 30 years later.
Be well and safe.

 

[BoldonLad]

That was probably about when my parents bought ours and they were the first in the street to own one. Coronation Street started in 1960 and neighbours used to come round to watch it!

A little story... I found this interesting... In the days when I worked, I spent sometime working in USSR, approximately at the time of "Glasnost" and all that. I became friendly with a Russian work colleague, of similar age, and, we often discussed our life experiences in our respective "home countries". Whilst I, in UK, had enjoyed more material benefits, we both had the same experience that there was a "boom" in consumer products, around 1958 - 1960. Presumably, it was. a world wide phenomena rather than something :"achieved" by respective Governments.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I reckon the butcher thinks I need feeding up, this is a pork chop, I hope I'm hungary.

 

[Dave7]

I reckon the butcher thinks I need feeding up, this is a pork chop, I hope I'm hungary.

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Hope you enjoy fat

 

[Dave7]

@Mo1959 I just read that tribute to your Daddy.
It was indeed a lovely tribute which I am sure brought a few tears and there is nowt wrong with that.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Hope you enjoy fat

I cut the fat of it and it was very nice.

 

[Dirk]

I reckon the butcher thinks I need feeding up, this is a pork chop, I hope I'm hungary.

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Czech that out.

 

[classic33]

He did it
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If that's his vehicle, he's parked illegally, on a bend in the road and too close to a junction.
Probably straddling the centre line as well!

 

[classic33]

JCB you mean? Lol. My dad had a few of them over his working years. Think I remember him telling me it was the original man's initials that produced them they first started. Joseph C Bamford or something.

And the oldest one, still in regular use is on a farm, just over half a mile from where I am.

 

[classic33]

Sadly I can't read that. Blue on blue and tiny text.

Oddly, it's doing what it's designed to do. This one any easier read? Tapping the picture once should open a viewer for you, allowing you to resize it.

 

[classic33]

I cut the fat of it and it was very nice.

Gggranville, fetch a cloth.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Mrs Tenkaykev is making progress with her shed revamp.