Please never stop telling little, beautiful stories with your art. An Anbessa notification in my new submissions list is a cause for rejoicing. (The stray bolt on the floor *makes* this piece, too...)

aw. :) I'll do my very best. ^^

always remember to look for vanished parts where they can NOT be. XD one time a spring from a gearbox jumped away, and we browsed the whole workshop... only to find it much later, standing upright on the edge of the parts cleaner sink as though someone had placed it there. :P

I love this, great work.

thank you. ^^

thank you. ^.^

Brilliant work! Glad I went through you for this one :)

glad you approve. :D

Wires and glowy things! The wonderful world of vintage radio and television. 40 years ago, when my brother started working as a 2-way radio technician, most of the transceivers used at least a few vacuum tubes. Those were all replaced by transistors, and many of those by integrated circuits.

He still has boxes of old vacuum tubes he wants to sell...

in the former GDR they sold a travel radio-cassette thing which used a mix of transistors and tubes. lightweight, sturdy, and sounded great for a single speaker. but those days are gone... we used to have a giant Phillips radio with integrated speaker and the famous "magic eye" sender input indicator. but some days the weather prevented a good signal and things sounded terrible...

those tubes might be worth a lot today. as far as I know the only tubes still used are for stage equipment because they just sound better than all-digital machines. except maybe with techno. but who listens to that, anyway. ;)

When I worked at Radio Shark in the early 1980s, a customer brought in a Russian-made reel-to-reel tape recorder. It used odd-sized reels which were impossible to get (the Cold War was still on) but recording and audio quality were excellent. To balance things out, I found an old CIA recorder at a flea market. I should get them out and photograph them some day.

they might have had no ressources, but some things were really well-made. :) to think they even managed to go to space back when...

oh. how did a CIA recorder end up at a flea market?

So true. The USSR even beat the USA into orbit.

The guy who sold me the CIA recorder seemed glad to be done with it. I suspect he wasn't supposed to have it.

I can imagine. even if it's not illegal, it's the CIA.

(* shrugs *) I've had it more than 20 years; pretty sure they wouldn't want it back. Still, not going to call them up...

the first thought that it really looks at home.

to some people their workshop IS at home. :)

Sweet and simple!

V.

Awesome work. The little bit you used to describe the pic reminds me of timid-wolf's (forgot how to quote in FA) art.

aw, thank you. ^^ I do what I can. ^^