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[Howmet TX]

Free- their 2nd album I think. The accepted mode of listening to that one was flat on your back, assuming the posture of the photographer, holding the album sleeve above you, with the cans strapped round your head on full volume.
In those days you could hold an album cover at full length and still see the interesting bits. Not like scratty little modern CD covers. Not much room for erotic fantasy there.....

[proptop]

It is... It was modeled after a Douglas Skyray, and was available as an aftermarket accessory in the J.C. Whitney catalogue in 1955...

Dokk.."they" (who/whom ever) did a lousy job if it's supposed to look like the F4D Skyray...(where's the emoticon that looks like one is smelling stinky cheese!?)

Actually, it looks more like the Vought F7U Cutlass...but I digress...(as usual... )

[proptop]

Free- their 2nd album I think. The accepted mode of listening to that one was flat on your back, assuming the posture of the photographer, holding the album sleeve above you, with the cans strapped round your head on full volume.
In those days you could hold an album cover at full length and still see the interesting bits. Not like scratty little modern CD covers. Not much room for erotic fantasy there.....

I hear that vinyl is comming back...because a lot of people want the feel and look of the old albums?

I still have my collection of the "classics" on that groovy old black stuff...
The 3 B's... Beatles...Black Sabbath, and Blue Oyster Cult...

[Jon Laster]

Roxy Music (Stranded, Country Life) had U.S. and Euro album covers that differed in significant respects....maybe Hendrix too?
Group 20 was 40 turns 27 machine wound, 27 was 38 hand wound. If I am wrong Phillipe will rise from the depths and swallow me like a minnow! Jon Laster
P.S. The Aerodyn chassis is exceptional, even in such glittering company!

[GTPJoe]

Guys,

I've read many stories about Hendrix never seeing or approving of the Electirc Ladyland cover with the women on it. He hated it once he saw it. It was not what HE wanted but the record company did. Hey it was the sexual revolution 60's.

I worked a a record store and it came in as an "English Import" record. I usually bought imports as they sounded better what with a lot less pressing of the master to supply demand. And more interesting cover art, too. Don't forget in Europe the naked body was part of art for centuries, while here in the States were still getting upset that people are finding out that woman have breasts!!

I still have my import of that album as well. And the Blind Faith girl cover too.

Long live vinyl....

[Horsepower]

I hear that vinyl is comming back...because a lot of people want the feel and look of the old albums?

I still have my collection of the "classics" on that groovy old black stuff...
The 3 B's... Beatles...Black Sabbath, and Blue Oyster Cult...

It IS back Tom, and in a big way but so are new album prices. It's not just the nostalgia angle. You cannot get the sound and frequency range on CD or digital downloads that good vinyl produces. As usual, EBAY has a boatload of record sales.

[Jairus]

Long live vinyl....

Here, here!
I love the stuff more than CD, 8-track or cassette. Never stopped buying records for the last 40 years and I see no reason to do so now!

[havlicek]

You cannot get the sound and frequency range on CD or digital downloads that good vinyl produces

Some frequencies (especially lows) are actually attenuated when mastering for vinyl because the needle would hop right out of the groove if it tried to reproduce those. Good vinyl DOES have a great sound, but it's not because it can play back greater frequency range than digital. "Good" digital has potentially a FAR greater ability to reproduce the widest frequency range than either vinyl or tape, as well as potentially a greater dynamic range and S/N. Digital downloads are another story and since almost all downloads are a compressed format (MP3) to allow for smaller file sizes, they have significantly lower fidelity and a "flatter" depth of field than even CDA...let alone any of the high-def formats. Just sayin'...

-john

[68Caddy]

Sweet, when I came the States I shipped about 400+ Lp's to LA mint condition, my friend worked for SAS and it was for free. The good thing I played my albums only once and that was when I taped them to reel to reel tape recorder.
Still got them , lots of stuff from sixty's up to the eighty's.

Nesta
PS Sorry Edo, I know it's not Thingies

[Edo]

Gentlemen,

rumors of Our exile are greatly exaggerated and the proof is in the pudding.

So, after the above parenthesis, dedicated to Rock Culture and audio lessons, we’re introducing today a lovely toy car dedicated to His Thingieness:

an Electric Dream repop of the Classic Gamma Ray, very creatively painted by the Noose himself:



On the bottom of that body we have one of those magnificient chassis built by John "Howmet TX" Dilworth:



...including sophisticated yet effective details:



And, on top of that chassis, we have a very powerful 26D (wound with nothing less than 26AWG wire!) by Super Star Motor Master Builder John Havlicek:





Here the assembly by notorious E:



And here, after lightly turning down the vintage grey sponge tires and saturating them with Trinity Tire Tweaker:



…a few pics while testing this amazing Offering to the God of Speed and the Thingie Goddess Herself:







Ain't that a lovely toy?

[havlicek]

Hi Edo,

It seems as though you keep topping yourself with each new car...what a thing(ee) of beauty this car is! Noose's graphics/paint job are off the charts, I don't know what they mean...or if they're just pure expression but they sure are eye-catching! John's chassis is crazy-cool as well and the thought of bending all that piano wire so symetrically gives me sore fingers just looking at it. The rear bumper alone is amazing, but those pans are crazy! I had to look at the chassis fot a while to realize that the entire sides of the car from the nose to the rear bumper are hinged and the outside is all one piece of wire. That's some beautiful fabrication.

On the motor, I want to thank you for catching and correcting my goof (I left some hot glue in the can bushing!). I was fairly confident that even a #26 awg wind could live happily in a FT26D, but you never know for sure until people get them on the track, so it's great to know the motor doesn't get too warm. As always, the assembly looks immaculate (including the bundled dbl leads) and the whole package adds up to a uniquely weird and wonderful car!

One question, what gears are on the car?

-john

[Edo]

...One question, what gears are on the car?

Hi John
generally speaking I use a 7/30 T (strictly Cox or Weldun's, none of that modern girly pink stuff) for my track with rear wheels of 21-22 mm diameter.
This car needed a 7/33 T since the wheels/tires are d=25mm.
Mind you, if I would gear it even shorter that motor has plenty of oooooomph even for a King track
Ta ta for now
E

[Bill from NH]

Those modern girly pink gears would go very well with your purple paint. Edo, who did the nice paint on the body?

[Edo]

Those modern girly pink gears would go very well with your purple color

Bill,
to me modern pink gears are a telltale sign of moral weakness

who did the nice paint on the body?

The Noose himself (as credited above).
Actually, it was his brain which must have remembered that somewhere in there it had a bit of lysergic acid stored away from 40 years ago.

[TSR]

I think that the pink gears add that little "je ne sais quoi" to a thingie and show the feminine side of the whole concept.

[Edo]

Herr P,
I know what you're trying to do: you're just trying to de-stabilize the Thingie Kingdom, a real men's world where everybody is happy using vintage parts (or replica thereof), save some poetic license which do NOT contemplate modern pink gears!
With all the due respect
what you need is a gang of Iranian conservatives coming down hard on your roulotte to teach you a lesson!
E

[Noose]

The theme was a remembrance of times gone by at CBGB's in NY; a place with which his Thingieness is quite familiar! Looks great all mounted up!

[TSR]

Kingee,
The Iranian mob would retreat in utter fear as soon as I show them a bag of Parma gears, as everyone knows that it is a sin in the Binsamamullahmullah re-written Koran to fear the Pink Crown.

[H10]

is there a online webstore where i can buy the thingies body's ????

[Edo]

Hi René
you can buy some Thingie bodies from Electric Dreams (several replica Shinoda designs) and TrueScale Products (replica Cox Cucaracha and BZ Banshee) AND from private citizens who dabble in Thingies and are reachable here on SBlog by PM through this very thread.

Anyway, gentlemen,

over on SlotForum we have a new kid on the block called Chief32s, who tried his chance at building a T and he really did something special!

Here's his thread : Outing for a Duck

Please meet the Duc'hess (in honor of my passion for Ducati motorcycles):







SuperCute presentation, innit? And what a build:









After assembling it with another beautiful John Havlicek made Mura 44 mag can, with a 55 t of 29AWG arm:



Front and rear wheels are Kai's:







And here whizzing around the track:









SuperLovely, n'est-ce pas?

[Jairus]

Si!

[TSR]

Lovely!

[Tex]

VERY cool!

[Horsepower]

Quack!

[havlicek]

Wow Edo...that's a terrific thingie. The "EDO" graphic on the wing is crazy cool too. I have to say that the 55T/29awg wind is from Tony P. He tells me that this was THE wind for these motors way back when, so I did like he said! It's a mild-enough wind that the motor should hold up well. Just beautiful and Chief32s did a splendid job. Of course, the assemblage is..."assolutamente impeccabile". Truly a "Royal Ride"!

-john