@ twjr80 & Wally46
Regarding the tube light string, It was a brain storm of what to do with the old burnt out tubes.
It was a small LED xmas light string I bought, runs on 3x AA batteries. I used copper caps for 1/2" copper water pipe, drilled a hole in the base of the cap. The LEDs were inserted into the hole and super glued in place. once the glue set, the tubes were then super glued into the open end of the copper cap, making a neat looking collar. The LEDs light up under the tube and make them glow. All have soft white LEDs to make them look more like the filaments are glowing.
This is what they look like in the dark
@ridgescan
Thank you, it did take a great deal of time to set up. Not a huge amount of money, most everything I have is used equipment, right down to the coax
some of the locals I visit with say I would fit in with some of the old timers due to that. My philosophy is reuse, re-purpose, save. A more bang for the buck philosophy. I also have a thing for older technology, while computers are fancy and everything, nothing beats good old high quality analog electronics in my eyes. Simplicity and performance. Not to mention that the older stuff can be repaired much easier. I am kind of OCD about certain things, but funny enough not so much with dusting and stuff like that. when taking the video I noticed some of the radios could use a good dusting. I am going to have to invest in one of those swiffers I can get into small spaces with. I can spend hours routing cables to make them neat, even if they wont be seen, some of my friends call me the king of cable management. Some even get me to assemble their custom builds even though they could do it themselves, just to have me route the cables neatly and out of sight haha!.
More videos will come. I have some plans for new ones. but with the holidays coming up, I may not have anything new until the new year, but I shall see. I have also been scouring my hard drives for old videos from some of my radio restores and other projects, but I fear I have lost a great many of them due to a hard drive crash some years back. Whatever I find I will upload. My channel will be anything radio, electronics related etc. nothing else. So if it interests you, subscribe.
I am also planning a fairly large scale mobile install this spring to put my other HTX-100, a UHF or dual band VHF/UHF rig, the galaxy 959 (that is currently installed), and a small scanner for repeaters in my truck. I am also wiring all the radios through a mixer into one external speaker to keep everything as neat as possible, adding 3 more antennas, and building my own custom console to hold the radios. I will be video documenting the build, but this one will have to wait untill it warms up and melts as I have no access to a garage i can fit the truck in for the length of time I need for the install.
