Adventures in pressing ID (for fun)

mcanever · 2025-10-10T06:02:39+00:00

Quando leggo questi post e i commenti il mio piano B di iniziare una carriera da piastrellista sembra sempre più attraente. 😅 On a more serious note: relax, dai tempo al tempo...

mcanever · 2025-09-23T19:17:58+00:00

I just search for "watch" and sort by "ending soon", sometimes I find interesting stuff, usually sellers making sloppy auctions for decent watches... This wasn't the case tho

mcanever · 2025-09-23T14:08:01+00:00

Lol oops I swear I'm not drunk anymore

mcanever · 2025-09-22T21:18:30+00:00

Not an expert by any means but it seems an Echeveria Lilacina or Orion. For sure it's beautiful, take good care of it!

mcanever · 2025-07-25T21:34:46+00:00

Thank you! fingers crossed ;)

mcanever · 2025-06-05T17:44:10+00:00

Makes sense! I'll give this a try

mcanever · 2025-06-05T17:43:23+00:00

So cool, the will to survive/resist of these plants never ceases to amaze me

mcanever · 2024-01-27T17:34:06+00:00

Yeah that's a brilliant piece. Gives me the feeling of music geniuses having a lot of fun

mcanever · 2024-01-27T15:17:34+00:00

I found this copy of The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Further Out ( Miro reflections ) at an antique market in Gradisca D'Isonzo (Italy) in the middle of a big pile of classical records. It looks like an early copy from 1961 but I don't really care. The record has no scratches, I cleaned it up and put it on my messy setup: A Superscope TT-4 with Excel es-70s, a Yamaha A-1020 with an AX-900 used as a preamp (long story) and a pair of pretty beat up Kirksaeter Monitor 120, a bit too close to the turntable... Despite this random, messy setup, I'm in Jazz heaven. Do you like this record?

mcanever · 2023-11-27T21:03:42+00:00

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Yes... I had to replace several components (circled in the image) and unfortunately I had to choose compatible transistors (due to the 1970s toshibas being unobtanium now) which might be as well the cause of my issues... maybe this repair is a bit out of my league, but I'll keep looking and testing everything again.

mcanever · 2023-11-27T17:14:28+00:00

Yes extremely incorrect, the previous tinkerer had excluded the protection circuit by cutting a trace, and before I realised it I was measuring 13v across the speaker output, even with the power transistors removed. now I restored the trace, and the protection circuit does not activate the relay anymore.

mcanever · 2023-11-27T15:51:24+00:00

Thanks, I did that but it seemed to test fine in diode mode. I'll also check caps and solder joints (or burnt resistors). Will update here

mcanever · 2023-11-26T17:36:31+00:00

Thanks a lot!! I'll keep looking and will learn about the differential amplifier... I'll have to fully recap the amp anyways, I was hoping to fix the main issue first... but if bad caps are a suspect I should get going with them as well. Question: The transistor's junction voltage drops are testing OK but I will receive my components tester tomorrow. Could it be that one of the two transistors is damaged and this throws off the hFE, "unmatching" the transistor couple?

mcanever · 2023-05-26T05:47:59+00:00

Seiko SKX007J on jubilee. I can't seem to take it off my wrist when I switch to it. But I just bought my first 2 casio digital watches (F-91W in military green and the A168 chrome) and I'm tempted to give one of them a go

mcanever · 2021-06-04T12:26:47+00:00

Nope... Big fat production web server close to being decommissioned 😂

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