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Spent day attempting recovery of pile of early 70s EIAJ Format Open Reel Video Tapes They’ve been baked & cleaned but are still difficult to process Consignment from an Estate, to be Digitised prior to Auction Footage not seen in over 50 years No, it’s not Dr Bloody Who! Footage shown is test ONLY

Round up of a few Video Jobs this week Getting more Photo Recovery from Discs, people no longer have Optical Drives Re cased VHS, Spools & Shell were smashed Repaired a mates VHS. Fellow Archiver, gotta help each other out Strange sticky blob jammed under the flap of VHS. Bagged it, looks grim

#OnThisDay 1989 : 35 years ago today, one Elliot Fletcher called Going Live! to speak to Five Star. What could possibly go wrong! 😁 #80s

Here he is, still sounding as spritely as he did the day he came off the Mackie desk ... drrubberfunk.bandcamp.com/track/harry-... (Additional Harry origin story intrigue is to be heard at the end of 'B-Boy Blue', the first track on 'The First Cut')

Picked up some more Tat over the week - Pt 2 Note its in the doorway as there is no more bloody room at the Inn :-) Sony DVD Recorders dump a Temp TOC - Table of Contents in a non standard location. It’s almost impossible to recover / finalise a disc without a Sony Deck This will fill a gap

Picked up some more Tat over the week - Pt 1 Panasonic VHS from a customer, as their new LG has no analogue inputs Sony VHS from Dump Recycling “told it works but can’t test it. £2” Thank you very much - it does work Sony DVD Recorder, nice addition as its hard to recover Unfinalised Sony DVDs

I’ve found a Christmas Present for a couple of our lovely friends. We can get @beanygreen.bsky.social tickets for Manchester. Though he’s probably already on the “Guest List” Then more at Bexhill for @kaptkopter.bsky.social Anyone else want to chip in? Will there a matching Christmas CD? 👍

Must be @phonicunderground.bsky.social Birthday. They dedicated his fav record EVER this morning

Round of some of today’s calls Removed unwanted, knackered Sky Dish. Note - original installer used white coax, so he could flog rolls of Black on eBay New Aerial for OAP. Little Log Periodic does the job Dropped off VHS to Digital Job Old Farts will know what pic 4 is. Removed from old system

Out n about round Sussex today

Granada TV Rentals Discotelly 1967 B&W, Dual Standard, 405 VHF, 625 UHF Built in Radio & Record Player

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I went with money to burn, hoping to find some half decent merch at The Blitz Club Exhibition. There was a Spandau Box Set, Spandau Poster, Keyring & piss poor selection of 5 books So I picked this up from the Design Museum shop instead Now framed, looks perfect It’s very me - ie sad git

A few pics from The Blitz Club Exhibition at the Design Museum Some classic pieces on show - if you’re of a certain erm, vintage The vast majority of exhibits came from a few individuals, who must have kept absolutely everything. Proving it’s good to hoard stuff :-)

Well, I haven’t seen the little ungrateful feathered buggers using it But, maybe they have

TFIF evening 🍷

Random round up of jobs Never thought Id be getting to grips with Windows 7 ever again. Was a bugger WiFi to Hard Wired extension needed BT/EE TV Box “Poor Signal” EE ‘Engineer’ (I use the term loosely) been THREE times. Tune it to the right transmitter & ah look B&O TV off to Panel Heaven 👍

Posties been

Forgotten I’d got this** Todays #RetroTech Philips CD-ROM Drive CDD-462 c 1992 Complete with original box, leads, Manuals, Drivers & Card Superb condition & it’s not even yellowed Works as Audio Player out the box ** Yes, too much old shite on hand

Why do people buy anything from Curry’s these days? They don’t give a shit & their After Sales “Service” seems to be the Store giving you a number to call Sweet old lady went into Curry’s, explained she wants basic, easy TV. Just wants 1, 2, 3, 4 & has poor eyesight This…. With poor eyesight WTAF

I love Spring me Cherry Tree in garden has about a dozen Bees on it ❤️🐝🐝

Some utter arsehole charged a couple with Dementia, a whopping £475 PLUS VAT for this. Didn’t take down the old one, supply a new pole, bracket, or even replace the cable Just stuck new one on the rusty rig, as high as he could reach. Cut the coax & badly attached it to the new one Piss = Boiled

Four Seasons in one day, out n about Sunshine, showers, wind, rain & hail. Got off the roof bloody smartish when the Lightening started Failed FM Aerial Systems issues. Mast Head into Amp, daisychained into another amp. All sorted Rusty Sky Dish McIntosh Keypad. LV must have been LaserVision

Day of jobs on the Coast & look what the weather does Woodingdean, Portslade, Patcham & Brighton “My Satellite isn’t working” - your dish is laying on your neighbours garage roof. Victim of sea air, rotted to piece Loft Box, haven’t seen one of them for ages Plus aerial job & LNB Swaps

Out n about doing proper work today Couple of calls to Communal Systems Nice Fibre IRS system, I put in a few years ago. PSU failure Another with crappy dSCR Adapter installed by Sky. When they go wrong they pull the whole system down Service Call on Hall AV System, with Audio issues All sorted

Utter cockwomble is trying to flog Snake Oil Ethernet Cables, claiming “it’s the source” & it will shit miracles “Ethernet cable is one of the very first links in the signal chain” thousands of switches, miles of copper, servers & the cheap, free, Router, are all perfect - what a wanker

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Five lads on train, fine specimens of our bright future Off to a Meningitis Party in Canterbury. Been organised on FB apparently They’ve put £50 each in the kitty. First one to catch it, wins the cash Going to be Vape Swapping & lots of snogging going on We did stupid shit, but not that stupid

Newly rediscovered pictures inc this shot of @kaptkopter.bsky.social @vinylcarbooty.bsky.social & I Taken c April ‘82 on a Tuesday evening, near Covent Garden

OK Tape Heads I remember these bloody awful hinged Memorex Cases. They were a pain in the arse in the car, on a train, in fact everywhere But I do not remember these even more bloody annoying little white plugs Assuming they were needed as shit designed case didnt have lugs to stop spools turning

Tis #TapeBoxTuesday Something for the Tape Heads Sorting latest consignment from my dear buddy on the coast There’ll be some memories for the oldies out there. Brands of Yesteryear Nice batch of NoS Head Cleaners & Accessories in the mix Memorex Chrome in those awful flip up cases #CassetteArt

Following last weeks windy spell in Surrey & Sussex, it’s been a busy few days out n about doing Aerial, Dish & LNB Jobs Replacing 2 Aerials with one. I think some riggers used to keep adding aerials to make money Obsolete Group B Aerial, Yellow Cap Broken & blown cap LNBs Using small Aerials

Made a start sorting boxes from my last trip to the Coast Boxes of lovely old Valves - yes yes, Tubes in USA. Fascinating things, going on the shelves to look at Can’t resist a Clock. BBC Leitch Studio Clock. That’s going in the workshop. Can’t poss put another one up in the house. She’ll kill me

Now, I’ve nothing against Ms McDonald. But, listing her with “Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, and countless others” If that’s the case “Andy AVAV. Following in the soggy steps of Lemmy, Bowie, Hendrix, Plant & Grey. Whom all took a piss at the Marquee”

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Off to The Blitz Club Exhibition this week I’ve discovered they offer a Discount if you go dressed up for the occasion I can’t decide which look to choose. Yes, before you ask, I can still get into my outfits, all of them. I’ve kept myself in tip top condition

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Round up of some of the weeks Video Jobs In addition to the cross-breed BetaVHS….. Another batch of miniDV Tapes Couple of Betamax Box of badly stored VHS Recovery of Photos from knackered old Laptop Water logged Video 8 - needed gentle cleaning & re-shelling. Multiple snaps, but we got there

The answer to yesterday Conundrum at AVAV Towers His Pub Expert Mate had told him to put the Betamax Tape into a VSH (yep) Case “then anywhere can do mate, init” The clue was the Leader Tape Beta used a Foil Sensor VHS - sorry, VSH used Clear, with a light sensor Other firms should have noticed

Holy phuq, I HATE AI with vengeance OK, I accept the seller doesn’t really know what he has. It’s not a Cassette Deck. It’s not Audio Elcaset He wants $7,000, but was too damn lazy to make the effort to do any work The description is utter AI bullshit word salad. It says absolutely nothing 😬😬

Why does anyone give the pompous bag of shite the time of day! His Glory Days are gone. Rely on Marr to preserve The Smiths legacy Utterly predictable

A very nice insta influencer person made a little video in the shop. Never had so many likes and messages. Free advertising 👌

Today’s Conundrum / Oddity, through the door at AVAV Towers I’ve heard of it, but never seen it myself, until now When the call starts with “alright mate, I got tape init” you know it’s gonna be, well, yes “Sent to few places mate, they can’t do it, init, ya know” As soon as I saw it, I knew…..

Someone has dumped a nice run of NTWICM in Chazza I used get these for Vince, miss you Vincent buddy

A game. Yr pet gets chosen to be immortalised on a banknote Which picture are you submitting?

Now look here, you & your 56K Don’t know you’re born I started off with 9.6! Nokia Card Phone 2.0 Connected via PCMCIA Slot Ran on GSM/PCN 900/1800 HSCSD - High Speed Circuit Switched Data Increased speed from 9.6 Kbps to 14.4 Kbps - YES K not M! You could “Group” 2 Time Slots to give 28.8 Kbps

Sometimes ya just gotta faff and persevere Early 80s #Betamax Christening Video arrived for Digitising & putting on a USB Stick I’ve tried multiple machines & Time Base Correctors. Could not get the thing to Lock. Rolling, constant Dropouts Tried it in Sony T7, 1979….. Locked & plays perfectly