blakeyboy

i've been looking for a good 1890 'dropped 90' for ages. My only example is a VG one found for me by Mike Hopkins....

I have a problem with using acetone- not in itself, it's a very useful cleaner, but the fact that the metal is left totally exposed to the atmosphere after cleaning. I think a slight protective oil layer should be left, and I do mean 'slight'...I use Electrolube EML for switches with silver contacts on equipment. EML was specified for switch contact protection when the equipment was made, in the late '60's and early 70's. The switches that have had protection still work fine. Switches that were cleaned with types of 'contact cleaner', that have no protective inert oil, are through the plating and down to the brass, and require very expensive replacement. It would be worth experimenting - a small amount is applied, and a dry clean paintbrush is used to remove all but the finest trace- enough to create an invisible barrier. People promote olive oil for some coins, but if you look at the impurities in olive oils, it's difficult to believe it's not corrosive...

Your Mother was right....:-)

Terry- is. jpeg different from .jpg? I always have posted .jpg in the past without problems....

"This is a testament to your test reply of someone's test" , he replied testily.

Best of luck with an upgrade to the 1903....good examples are, for some reason, very rare indeed!

Yep- I see the same...

Is it funny that Banksy thinks that judges use gavels?

Bloody Top Cat and his Gang have set up home outside my workshop....

What a loss. Bonkers and so funny. A trailblazer, and what a way to go out- just two weeks after such a concert! Considered almost godlike when I was young, in the West Midlands- really flew the flag for that area. I helped my mate do Terry 'Geezer' Butler's garden in the 70's, and we used to play about in the kit room at Terry's house- my mate Matthew on Bill Ward's kit, and would mess about on a Minimoog. Terry came home one day and announced the new album, 'Never Say Die', and we listened to the acetates of the album, each disc one side each, on the standard 70's rocker hifi- turntable, Mackintosh amp, and big JBL speakers, in Terry's lounge. What an evening. It's still like it didn't really happen....

He was so ubiquitous in the '80s that people started not liking his success. Doing both Live Aid concerts by jumping on Concorde didn't help etc... I still play Brand X albums, and yes his Genesis contributions were great- I got into his era of Genesis far earlier than the Gabriel stuff.. Trick of the Tail is excellent and Collins is superb on it. "after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realised that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass"....

T and T in Tunbridge Wells use EasyLive Auctions- I kept track of a pile of coins and stamps I put through and it worked well.

I've tried three times since I posed...anyone got an idea about what works?

Yes, I just got the 403 forbidden page- just trying a small photo attached to a post.....

A very cool trip!!!!!

You are right- a few beers and a garden chair will make you expand....!

I used to live the same distance from the MK Bowl in the late 80's early 90's, with the stage facing our way, so had all the big concert sound for free as well. Out with the beers. Michael Jackson, Simple Minds etc etc.... ( Kim Wilde's singing was so off she drove us indoors.....:-) ) I'd like to smugly point out that my fingerprints are all over the guitar pedal boxes being used on the Oasis tour, because I was part of their development in a small way, so Noel has paid for my beer whilst not listening to his concert!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177044730415?_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5339078641&toolid=10001&customid=eb%3Ab%3Avms%3Aeb%3Ap%3A177044730415%3BEAIaIQobChMI54Kose63jgMVjJRQBh1rcjJLEAQYASABEgJqffD_BwE&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1ot04FryeROeNsXpfnIQ3Ew23&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21778424393 What is it about this penny, particularly the obverse, that is making my nose twitch?

Reading the sports section on the BBC website this morning, I have just genuinely realised that champion golfers Schauffele and Scheffler are two separate people. No wonder I've been confused.

Inspired.

Penny Lane? Three coins in the fountain? Brother can you spare a dime?

Hmm...I can increase the value of my collection by 30% by sitting on it? For how long? Just while I'm watching the telly? Uncomfortable but profitable then....

Funny how the reverse has virtually no edge- I have a feeling that some of my 1909's are like that- what's the explanation? Sorry if it's been discussed at length before, but I can't remember..... Is it time for my walk now?

There are corners of Ebay where it is ALWAYS the first of April.....

Oh it's all mad- paranoia, speculation blah blah If I were running Russia, and needed to be the type of leader Russians like, I would do exactly what Putin is doing right now...... whether they attack or not is not important- he's generated panic by moving around what he owns, on land he owns. If he isn't planning anything, he must be falling about laughing, and if he is going to invade, he knows that not much will happen, like with Crimea. Win win for him. I had to explain to someone in Belgium how the French for 'Putin' is not actually accurate, since pronouncing it as the Francophones otherwise would would be 'Putain' which is not a complementary term...he didn't know, fell about laughing, so of course I pointed out that what the media tell him about the Russian build up may also not be true.....we are all in the dark, most of the time.