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Midlife crisis? Check that box

Reliving my youth with these turntables that I just picked up. 
sold this exact set up (without cases but better carts) in 2008 for a third of what I just paid... gosh. 

I think that looks a bit too roomy in the body. Size 40? That pit to pit is bigger than my size 46 Eastman A2. 

Gosh they did look good though!

Recent rotations from my turntable:

black flag - damaged https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeCjNguF7nQ5raIxHWkF7V_7Ufc-B8Iv0

Shaolin soul episode 1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GL-m2cAex-E

BDP - criminal minded https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKlGZ6uEMhc

The advancement - stone folk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q48aLvGw0NY

Sounds like sizing up a half might work better for you

Well done man! That stupendous work 

I got the white, i do Like El Michel’s affair!

A few new records this week:

That is all she did sadly. do you know lee Moses? The deepest soul there is. 
Alice Clark - colorsound

How about Wendy Rene? - for the wu tang joint, after laughter comes tears. But all her songs are great. 

38 minutes ago, cottonskinblues said:

That Gloria Barnes record sounds extremely enticing. I just recently got that James Brown album and I definitely think its an underrated James Brown album. 

Edit: Can anyone recommend a good cleaning solution for vinyl records? I recently ran out and am looking for something to clean my records with. Even a good homemade recipe.

Colemine repressed Gloria Barnes - uptown a couple of years ago. It’s a fantastic album. 
 

Today : James Knight and the Butlers - Black Knight. Awesome ‘black rock’ record from 1971. Highly recommended 

I have a rega turntable for the last 10 years or so since I sold off my 1200s and retired my cross fader. 
No experience of their amps though. But I’m sure 00 is correct. 

More of my recent heavy rotation:

gloria barnes- uptown : awesome obscure deep soul from Ohio featuring Lee Moses and band 

ghetto brothers - power fuerza 

james brown - sho is funky down here

Penrose records volume 1

It seems MF Doom and denim go together. Another fan here- madvillain has been on heavy rotation on my turntable since it was released. I was an avid stonesthrow collector through the 2000s, along with other rap, funk, soul and reggae. 
Lately I have been listening a lot to Townes van zandt, Witch and assorted soul like syl Johnson 

I remember the Pau, too. Always liked the figaro/pau idea but preferred minis back then and didn't want the extra hassle of an imported car.

Pos rep for fast times

Beautiful work. I’ll take a 45 adapter if you decide to make some more

He is a great looking dog

What breed of dog is that?

Nope. Bought the frame of a dude on lfgss. Spent a couple of months finding the right groupset. I wanted shimano and was keen on something special so the first gen dura ace was spot on. They are probably quite rare now especially in that condition. Then the other bits. Probably had it less than a year in total. 
 

more time building than riding.

11 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Beauty! don't forget the head badge, it's the best bit.

Holy crap! one leg would certainly curtail your shoe buying, glad you made a full recovery.

I would have taken it off your hands for sure! how much did you get for it? i was watching one for sale (same colour) on ebay last year in Wales for £350 but it was a shadow of your bike, i would probably have spent twice that again bringing it up to your kind of spec.

 

About £400 I think. Which is about what all the parts cost if I recall. 
Regret selling this so much now! 

here he is:

12 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Have you still got that lovely old Kuwahara Hirame road bike @fre-co i remember following your build on LFGSS years ago..

Man I loved that bike.... the dura-ace groupset was beautiful. My hand stitched elk skin bar grips... oh what joy. 
 

but then it tried to kill me.
 

I came off on a gravel patch on a dodgy bend at the bottom of a big hill, scraped my knee and bashed myself about a bit and smashed my Rolex. Then a week later the pain in my knee escalated and got so bad I passed out and was admitted to hospital with borderline septicaemia. 17 days on IV antibiotics and being told they might have to amputate if I don’t get better. 
 

I sold it to a collector because I was too scared to ride it again. I’ll dig out the pictures and upload here if you like. 
 

now I ride a pretty much original early 90s Rocky Mountain cirrus because my kids are better off-road. 
 

14 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

 

I know how you feel, at one point last week i was stood on rickety old wooden step ladders perched on the top of my bay window in the pissing down rain trying to scrape the stone lintel above our bedroom window, above my head with nothing to hold onto, i used to be good with heights but i think i'm getting worse with the older i get.. I'm sure your average F&B shopper doesn't do their own prep....good god no!.

I went to B&Q to get some Nitromors, expecting just to paint it on and scrape it off but since the last time i used it the EU have forced them to take the active ingredients (dichloromethane) out of it ..alright we might live longer and heather lives as a consequence  but at what cost? is life really worth living with flaky windows? bring on Bregsit when we can go back to inhaling all the harmful chemicals we like

I called in at our local F&B supplier (The Fine Paint Company) last week @fre-co and you've done exactly what they suggest.. he says that his shop front was painted with F&B 12 years ago with no issues with peel?

 

 

 

 

...i was going to do the same although my windows do need quite a few bits of the woodwork replacing where it's gone rotten and past idiots have bodged it with filler.. i was considering something called 'Peelaway' to strip the paint from the decorative woodwork but you need to neutralise it then paint with an acid resistant primer afterwards to stop the residue affecting your top coat...and it still looks pretty messy so i might just bag it off.

 

When you are done with yours, feel free to come down here and do mine again!

I did have my kids with me. Promise