Is it just me

[morqthana]

Furthermore, amongst 'audio buffs' there seems to be resurgence of interest in (very expensive) valve amplifiers, which they believe can achieve a 'quality of sound' which cannot be achieved with solid-state electronics (which I personally find hard to believe - but it's their money ).

 

[ebee]

I was taught it in school

Me too, and yes I am really old - 70

 

[ebee]

Yes I have wired plenty with Red to L and Black to N and also plenty with Green to E before it was changed to Green/Yellow !!!

and Yes, some people had no clue how to wire a plug, cable sheath well outside the grip cord and E pullout first.
And the number of times folk exclaimed they not bothered connecting the Earth cos it still works!

And those saying "A Good Electrician showed me this!" - silver foil wrapped around the blown fuse to "repair it" or a piece of fusewire or a few strands of flex. The good old days.

 

[CountryFan]

I can't remember if anyone taught me. I do remember as a teen getting a belt because I didn't unplug it first. It was a hi-fi thing on like an extension box that went to a plug.

 

[ebee]

Was the belt an administered punishment or was it an electric shock in a Darwinian attempt to remind you of your own mortallity?

 

[CountryFan]

Was the belt an administered punishment or was it an electric shock in a Darwinian attempt to remind you of your own mortallity?

I think the latter, certainly not administered punishment. Perhaps it’s because I wasn’t aware as I am now, although I still have had some belts since.

 

[ericmark]

At school, three of us were interested in electronics, we were asked by an old lady to repair her radio, she did not like the new fangled transistor things, so we tried, but we could not find any valves, however we did find an old transistor radio on the tip, smashed, but worked.

So we set to hiding the transistor radio inside the old valve one, some new components like on/off volume control, and a new speaker to match ohms of transistor output, but we managed to hide the transistor quite well, told her she now needed to use a 9 volt battery instead of the 48 volt or what even it was, and she was very satisfied with the result.

Stopping me on the street to tell me how well it worked, and she had not needed to recharge the accumulator once since the repairs, and how much better the sound was to the new transistors.

We as said were kids at the time, so would that be called kidology.