Many Years ago Practical Mechanics ran an article describing the
construction of a proton magnetometer using inexpensive components.
I kept if for years and then lost it during a move.
Does anyone remember it or even have the issue?
Many Years ago Practical Mechanics ran an article describing the
construction of a proton magnetometer using inexpensive components.
I kept if for years and then lost it during a move.
Does anyone remember it or even have the issue?
Many Years ago Practical Mechanics ran an article describing the
construction of a proton magnetometer using inexpensive components.
Bing.com gave a few leads. Again, not much in the way of PM but I particularly liked this one: <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238742630_Construction_of_a_Proton_Magnetometer>
which looked clear enough for me to understand and straightforward to
make from everyday components.
Many Years ago Practical Mechanics ran an article describing the
construction of a proton magnetometer using inexpensive components.
nick <nickodell49@yahoo.ca> writes:
Many Years ago Practical Mechanics ran an article describing the
construction of a proton magnetometer using inexpensive components.
Bing.com gave a few leads. Again, not much in the way of PM but I
particularly liked this one:
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238742630_Construction_of_a_Proton_Magnetometer>
which looked clear enough for me to understand and straightforward to
make from everyday components.
That paper has this reference:
| 5. L. Huggard, Proton Magnetometer, Practical Electronics, Wimbourne
| Publishing, U.K.,(Oct 1970).
And here it is: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical-Electronics/70s/Practical-Electronics-1970-10.pdf
pinnerite wrote:
Many Years ago Practical Mechanics ran an article describing theconstruction of a proton magnetometer using inexpensive components.
here it is: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical-Electronics/70s/Practical-Electronics-1970-10.pdf
Alan J. Wylie wrote:
That paper has this reference:The scan of the magazine - especially the adverts - brought back many memories, and the magnetometer theory is fascinating. Thanks for the
| 5. L. Huggard, Proton Magnetometer, Practical Electronics,
| Wimbourne Publishing, U.K.,(Oct 1970).
And here it is:
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical-Electronics/70s/Practic
al-Electronics-1970-10.pdf
link.
And here it is: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical-Electronics/70s/Practical-Electronics-1970-10.pdf
On 27/12/2024 08:47, Alan J. Wylie wrote:them. And the last one for Henry's Radio with four shops "within 100 yards of each other" in the Edgware Road, which I visited a number of times. It's such a shame that young people can't do that sort of thing any more.
Thanks for finding and posting that as it brings back so many memories, especially from that wonderful set of advertisements. What a huge number of electronic component suppliers there were around that time. I remember buying components from a few of
And here it is:
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical-Electronics/70s/Practical-Electronics-1970-10.pdf
Those shops disappeared many years ago. About 15 or 20 years ago there
was a similar type of shop in Worthing (Portland Road maybe?), before
that too disappeared. The last shop of that type was Burkitt's on
Steep Hill, Lincoln.
M&B, 86 Bishopsgate, in the arches under Leeds railway station, with a
Bren gun in the window.
I don't know if you remember Chromasonic Electronics?
My mate Raymond and I were the proprietors.
Labour's introduction of a higher rate of VAT virtually killed the
business. A deal was done with HM Rvenue and Customs to glue a rate to different classes of component instead of identifying the appropriate
rate according to what purpose the product would be used for but it was
too late, the damage was done.
On 27/12/2024 12:26, Clive Page wrote:
On 27/12/2024 08:47, Alan J. Wylie wrote:
Thanks for finding and posting that as it brings back so many
And here it is:
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical-Electronics/70s/Practical-Electronics-1970-10.pdf
memories, especially from that wonderful set of advertisements. What
a huge number of electronic component suppliers there were around that
time. I remember buying components from a few of them. And the last
one for Henry's Radio with four shops "within 100 yards of each other"
in the Edgware Road, which I visited a number of times. It's such a
shame that young people can't do that sort of thing any more.
I used to spend a lot of time in the "government surplus" electronics
shops in Tottenham Court Road (Proops, Z & I Aero, etc), and Lisle St in
the 60s. In the mid 70s I was chatting to a Polish electronics
technician who, when I mentioned Z & I Aero, told me they were a front
to sell Russian goods in the UK, and finance certain, shall we say, clandestine activities. I never knew what the truth was, but this forum thread is interesting <https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=139501>.
More about Lisle St, here <http://www.retinascope.co.uk/lislestreet.html>
Those shops disappeared many years ago. About 15 or 20 years ago there
was a similar type of shop in Worthing (Portland Road maybe?), before
that too disappeared. The last shop of that type was Burkitt's on Steep
Hill, Lincoln.
No mail <nomail@aolbin.com> wrote in
news:lt7espF79bqU1@mid.individual.net:
Alan J. Wylie wrote:
That paper has this reference:The scan of the magazine - especially the adverts - brought back many
| 5. L. Huggard, Proton Magnetometer, Practical Electronics,
| Wimbourne Publishing, U.K.,(Oct 1970).
And here it is:
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical-Electronics/70s/Practic
al-Electronics-1970-10.pdf
memories, and the magnetometer theory is fascinating. Thanks for the
link.
It's like a time-machine . . .
. . . . . 15 shillings for a 2N3055, outrageous!
M&B, 86 Bishopsgate, in the arches under Leeds railway station, with a
Bren gun in the window.
On 27/12/2024 12:26, Clive Page wrote:
On 27/12/2024 08:47, Alan J. Wylie wrote:
Thanks for finding and posting that as it brings back so many
And here it is:
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical-Electronics/70s/Practical-Electronics-1970-10.pdf
memories, especially from that wonderful set of advertisements. What
a huge number of electronic component suppliers there were around that
time. I remember buying components from a few of them. And the last
one for Henry's Radio with four shops "within 100 yards of each other"
in the Edgware Road, which I visited a number of times. It's such a
shame that young people can't do that sort of thing any more.
I used to spend a lot of time in the "government surplus" electronics
shops in Tottenham Court Road (Proops, Z & I Aero, etc), and Lisle St in
the 60s. In the mid 70s I was chatting to a Polish electronics
technician who, when I mentioned Z & I Aero, told me they were a front
to sell Russian goods in the UK, and finance certain, shall we say, clandestine activities. I never knew what the truth was, but this forum thread is interesting <https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=139501>.
More about Lisle St, here <http://www.retinascope.co.uk/lislestreet.html>
Those shops disappeared many years ago. About 15 or 20 years ago there
was a similar type of shop in Worthing (Portland Road maybe?), before
that too disappeared.
On 27/12/2024 14:59, Jeff Layman wrote:
Those shops disappeared many years ago. About 15 or 20 years ago there
was a similar type of shop in Worthing (Portland Road maybe?), before
that too disappeared.
Memories of GWM Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBgMeUQgBg
The last shop of that type was Burkitt's on Steep Hill, Lincoln.
Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
The last shop of that type was Burkitt's on Steep Hill, Lincoln.
Mr Birkitt died a couple of years ago. I gather his children still run theshop, sorting through all his stock. It was The Strait, Lincoln.
Mr Birkitt died a couple of years ago. I gather his children still run theshop, sorting through all his stock. It was The Strait, Lincoln.
Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> writes:
Those shops disappeared many years ago. About 15 or 20 years ago there
was a similar type of shop in Worthing (Portland Road maybe?), before
that too disappeared. The last shop of that type was Burkitt's on
Steep Hill, Lincoln.
H. Gee of Mill Road, Cambridge >https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/history/lost-cambridge-electrical-shop- >destroyed-28336801
M&B, 86 Bishopsgate, in the arches under Leeds railway station, with a
Bren gun in the window.
Anyone remember an electronics "surplus" shop in Reading in the 70s? I
bought an old power supply there (which weighed a ton) to turn into a stabilised supply useful for charging my car's dodgy battery. It had
eight OC26 transistors on four large heatsinks and a couple of umpteen thousand uF smoothing caps. I modified it using a Wireless World circuit
and it worked well for years, even after one of the smoothing caps died.
It eventually went for recycling only a few years ago.
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