The Winter of 62/63
Submitted by Member: Nuvistor The winter of 1962/63 if you remember was a long and very cold one. Ice on...
Trade Tales
Read the adventures of various Radio & Television engineers. If you’ve a tale to tell yourself, why not send it to us. Click here to submit a trade tale
A domestic audio installation
Submitted By Member: Nuvistor Trade Tale Content: We had a customer buy an audio unit with a Goldring Lenco GL75...
Music centre modifications
Submitted By Member: Nuvistor We sold a lot of music centres in the 1970’s, some inexpensive others quite expensive. One...
Unusual record player modification
Submitted By Member: Nuvistor We had a customer who had bought a top of the range CTV then a top...
Mishaps In The Trade
Submitted by member: Nuvistor A couple of tales that I found out about from other TV repairers, most of the...
A Lesson In ‘Fast Recovery’
Submitted by Member: Steve Webb In the mid 70's the Thorn 9000 had just appeared with it's revolutionary new cyclops...
Exploding Resevoir Capacitor and Terrified Budgie
Submitted by: Steve Webb When I worked for Radio Rentals as a fresh faced youth we encountered all ages of...
An embarrassing pain in the proverbial region
Submitted By: Steve Cook Back in 1973, I worked for a local TV shop as a junior engineer, working closely...
Give us the beans!
By Member Marion It was cold and dark Winter's afternoon when a green Morris Minor drew up outside and an...
Racing and smoke
By Member Joe Mitchell In the mid 1970s Radio Rentals had a fair number of elderly subscribers (RR referred to...
