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Some time ago in the Black Market I placed an posting asking whether anybody had visisted this shop
http://www.zyra.org.uk/birkett.htm
Well - managed to get over to Lincoln at the weekend (Saturday) and have a look inside...
This is what I found...
Lovely old couple running it - and having their roast dinner on the counter when I walked in..
Imagine a electrical component shop untouched for 30 years (apart from some new leads on the wall)...
Really small shop...Dust everywhere...
Boxes of compoenents and old things all over the floor, upside down etc...
You have to lift up old circuit boards and transformers to find more boxes underneath full of stuff
Boxes and boxes of old (really old) transistors - but I couldn;t get close enough ('cos of rubbish) to see them
The weirdest capacitors I have ever seen in my life (abaout the size of a spectacles case, called Dublier or something and named a plastic capacitor)
Old RAF altimeters, farnell square/sign wave oscillators, old brown transformers, bits of valve equipment all stacked on top of each other.
When was the last time you looked at a window display that contained RAF radios, valve oscilloscopes, 22k Log Pots (50 pence each written in felt tip marker), bits of transformers, headset microphones and some outstanding cobwebs
Further up the road is his other shop which he uses for storage - looked in the window and it is packed from top to bottom with stuff in old browning/yellowing boxes..
I did spot a few marconi valves in original boxes.
It looks like he is looking to get rid of the lot soon as his advert in Practical Wireless is talking about lists of stuff for sales (but valves not yet listed)
Note - the shop is on the main high street in Lincoln just before that ridiculous steep hill
Anybody who goes - please tell me if there is some stuff that I should be buying!
http://www.zyra.org.uk/birkett.htm
Well - managed to get over to Lincoln at the weekend (Saturday) and have a look inside...
This is what I found...
Lovely old couple running it - and having their roast dinner on the counter when I walked in..
Imagine a electrical component shop untouched for 30 years (apart from some new leads on the wall)...
Really small shop...Dust everywhere...
Boxes of compoenents and old things all over the floor, upside down etc...
You have to lift up old circuit boards and transformers to find more boxes underneath full of stuff
Boxes and boxes of old (really old) transistors - but I couldn;t get close enough ('cos of rubbish) to see them
The weirdest capacitors I have ever seen in my life (abaout the size of a spectacles case, called Dublier or something and named a plastic capacitor)
Old RAF altimeters, farnell square/sign wave oscillators, old brown transformers, bits of valve equipment all stacked on top of each other.
When was the last time you looked at a window display that contained RAF radios, valve oscilloscopes, 22k Log Pots (50 pence each written in felt tip marker), bits of transformers, headset microphones and some outstanding cobwebs
Further up the road is his other shop which he uses for storage - looked in the window and it is packed from top to bottom with stuff in old browning/yellowing boxes..
I did spot a few marconi valves in original boxes.
It looks like he is looking to get rid of the lot soon as his advert in Practical Wireless is talking about lists of stuff for sales (but valves not yet listed)
Note - the shop is on the main high street in Lincoln just before that ridiculous steep hill
Anybody who goes - please tell me if there is some stuff that I should be buying!