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Jeff Layman <[email protected]d> 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.

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braind

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On 01/01/2025 01:02, me9 wrote:

Jeff Layman <[email protected]d> 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.

Thanks for the corrections to the name and address! It was over eight
years ago that I visited Lincoln - good to know that the shop's still there.

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Jeff

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me9 wrote:

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.

The sign in the window back in August shows they are open 2.5 hours a
day, on 4 days a week.

<https://maps.app.goo.gl/uMK7J4NXG9iAeZ6T9>

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In article <[email protected]>, Alan J. Wylie
<[email protected]> scribeth thus

Jeff Layman <[email protected]d> 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

That place, where i spent most all of my pocket money, looks like its
being rebuilt after being sold tho i very much doubt it'll be back at
H.Gee mores the pity!...

It must have contained all the drive belts for every type of cassette
recorder ever made!...

M&B, 86 Bishopsgate, in the arches under Leeds railway station, with a
Bren gun in the window.

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Tony Sayer


Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

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On 30/12/2024 08:46, Jeff Layman wrote:

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.

I designed/built my own, using a toroid transformer. It would pulse
charge - It would turn on, pulse a charge, turn off, and check the
battery volts, which determined how long the next on pulse would remain
on for. Current when on, was 20 amps. It worked very well, and would
rapidely be able to start a car, from a flat battery, or top a battery
up, without over charging.

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