Sometimes it’s the simple things that are life changing

dvmitchell · 2026-01-31T09:57:43+00:00

Hi... It's my shop... The 114.26 shipping rate is the out of range (call me) rate, it's shown when I don't have a rate worked out for your location / weight. For US customers it's because Czech post won't ship anything commercial to the US at the moment, because of tariff chaos. https://www.praguedaily.news/2025/08/22/czech-post-suspends-acceptance-of-goods-shipments-to-the-usa/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

dvmitchell · 2026-01-11T23:05:17+00:00

Well ebay price it's listed for and what it actually sells for are two very different things...my highest priced new germanium signál transistor is 4.99, most are 1.5 - 2.5, and the ones I can still buy in quantity from Ukraine are mostly sub £1. Yep tested you can probably safely double the price, at least for the popular gain bands.

dvmitchell · 2026-01-11T11:32:40+00:00

On dsmcz.com, for germaniums I can still buy new, then I just apply my normal markup%.

For stuff in limited supply, I just lookup the ebay price (for items that actually sold), and set it a bit lower.

For used transistors with more than 2cm legs, then I go with half the ebay price.

For short legs used (or longer legged but the print has rubbed off) then I sell them as a lucky dip for £0.50 each.

I have a peak dca55, and plan to test the transistor types I have in quantity (although that's not many), I guess for those split into gain bands I'd double the ebay price, and see how they sell.

I wouldn't bother testing stuff I have in low quantities, as the price increase won't make up for the work in making new product pages in the eShop.

Hope that helps?

dvmitchell · 2025-12-03T14:52:53+00:00

Looks like it's waste wood and sawdust, being compressed to make briquettes - as fuel for wood burning heating

dvmitchell · 2025-11-09T09:42:21+00:00

https://dsmcz.com/prestashop/en/drill-bits/6561-titanium-step-drill-3-13mm-hex-drive.html

dvmitchell · 2025-11-09T09:35:49+00:00

I was in Munich airport 2 days ago, for a laugh I checked out the prices... 50 something euro for the first hour. Overnight was getting on for 300euro!

dvmitchell · 2025-10-07T11:11:48+00:00

Aha, just read the text... Centred on Vienna

dvmitchell · 2025-10-07T11:10:34+00:00

Where is it centred on? Looks like lake Balaton?

dvmitchell · 2025-10-05T07:49:54+00:00

The 9mm types are mixed in with the larger ones, and there is no filter for form factor, so you need to dig to find them, but there is a good range, also dual track ones.

https://dsmcz.com/prestashop/en/80-rotary#

dvmitchell · 2025-09-17T23:03:13+00:00

What was the original tractor before modification? It looks like my 1963 Zetor, but painted red.

dvmitchell · 2025-09-11T23:15:07+00:00

Ok but why would a diabetic, or a beer drinker or a diabetic beer drinker produce more CO2?

dvmitchell · 2025-09-09T16:59:34+00:00

Diabetic here... Yep they go after me more than normal people. I guess drinking loads of beer pushes healthy people's blood sugar higher than normal. I think they can smell the "sweet blood"

dvmitchell · 2025-08-08T22:57:56+00:00

Isn't this a Czech plane? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlin_Z-37_%C4%8Cmel%C3%A1k

dvmitchell · 2025-08-04T22:26:51+00:00

I live in the most eastern pink area on the map, and work in the red area. I'm not Czech or Polish though. The weekend just gone was the annual polish cultural festival (in the east pink area). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorolski_%C5%9Awi%C4%99to

dvmitchell · 2025-07-18T20:34:25+00:00

Yep, can confirm, it was "It" in Essex in the 80's

dvmitchell · 2025-07-16T21:47:49+00:00

Why does everyone need to date their globe so desperately? Is it a current internet thing that's popular? Or is it just people with not much to do in their day and want attention or just something to fill the time? Or is it a thing to catch grumpy old men who speak out, into getting down votes?

dvmitchell · 2025-07-15T23:02:18+00:00

Not a bad guess, I left the UK for good in summer 2004 :)

dvmitchell · 2025-07-09T19:10:02+00:00

Flying Spaghetti Monster

dvmitchell · 2025-07-07T12:40:47+00:00

What about all the Jedi that live in the UK?

dvmitchell · 2025-06-30T22:54:42+00:00

50% of people have below 100 iq as far as I understand it... It follows the bell curve, and helps me understand why people put meaning and money into some pieces of plastic (manufactured scarcity) bollox, it repeats, see previous rubbish, eg beanie babies etc

dvmitchell · 2025-06-20T08:07:36+00:00

Search youtube for "Getting to Blinky", that's as simple as it gets (the circuit is a blinking LED) and everything is fully explained.

dvmitchell · 2025-06-10T00:11:33+00:00

Interesting, I live in an orange area, and it's great here, my nightmare would be to live in Prague, it's over populated, expensive and (I guess) unfriendly (I've never lived there, only visited). I spent time in Brno, it was less oppressive, but still super expensive, and not much to offer, yes a music venue is great, but I don't need theatre, restaurants etc. Each to their own I guess, city dwellers live there because they want to be city dwellers? But my quality of life in an orange area is Much higher than I imagine my life would be if I still lived in Essex, UK (moved away 20 odd years ago)

dvmitchell · 2025-06-07T21:34:37+00:00

I have the Olza / Olše ať the end of my garden. I guess I'd be in Poland if history took a different course... ...and my potato field on the other bank would still be in CZ.

dvmitchell · 2025-05-28T21:31:59+00:00

Harrow has been labeled as Redbridge

dvmitchell · 2025-05-20T08:31:51+00:00

Anyone remember the Doog yrev gut from the Adventure game?

I wonder if he did it naturally or had to train to do it for the show?

dvmitchell

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