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Return to top of page · Post #: 16 · Written at 4:50:57 PM on 8 September 2020.
	Keith Walters Location: Sydney, NSW Member since 16 January 2008 Member #: 219 Postcount: 61
You can get a 5W output cow for another 5 bucks! Sounds pretty reasonable.... So obviously "cow" means valve. "Replaceable with our new 5W output cow, plus $5." Shipping: AU $94.60! That's probably about right for a cow....

Return to top of page · Post #: 17 · Written at 5:00:28 PM on 8 September 2020.
	Keith Walters Location: Sydney, NSW Member since 16 January 2008 Member #: 219 Postcount: 61
Their Bile Machine is a lot cheaper, and has free postage: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000030769371.html

Return to top of page · Post #: 18 · Written at 9:59:50 PM on 8 September 2020.
	GTC Location: Sydney, NSW Member since 28 January 2011 Member #: 823 Postcount: 6687
That Bile Machine is quite interesting. Apparently it comes with door level kit and scaffolding.

Return to top of page · Post #: 19 · Written at 9:06:56 AM on 9 September 2020.
	Ian Robertson Location: Belrose, NSW Member since 31 December 2015 Member #: 1844 Postcount: 2371
5.5 inch TV kit looks interesting

Return to top of page · Post #: 20 · Written at 9:12:59 AM on 9 September 2020.
	Marcc Location: Wangaratta, VIC Member since 21 February 2009 Member #: 438 Postcount: 5254
I note there is cost cutting, like the LCR-T4 where they leave the colour out of the Plastic / Perspex cabinet. Lessons there in the way its cut.

Return to top of page · Post #: 21 · Written at 9:44:29 AM on 10 September 2020.
	Labrat Location: Penrith, NSW Member since 7 April 2012 Member #: 1128 Postcount: 373
Piping, I assume is their poor translation for Tubes, or what we call valves. Does anyone remember the poor Russian translation a few years ago for the rock group Cat Fight ? Came out as Pussy Riot.

Return to top of page · Post #: 22 · Written at 8:30:52 PM on 10 September 2020.
	Marcc Location: Wangaratta, VIC Member since 21 February 2009 Member #: 438 Postcount: 5254
They probably offered him a job in our bureaucracy, he would fit right in, as they can't introduce anything that's right, or works.

Return to top of page · Post #: 23 · Written at 3:17:59 PM on 18 September 2020.
	Keith Walters Location: Sydney, NSW Member since 16 January 2008 Member #: 219 Postcount: 61
A Chinese friend has spilled the beans. In Cantonese slang, "cow" means a large heavy object, and the term is often used for "transformer." It's a bit like "chip" for "silicon integrated circuit" So a computer could be described as having a "Z80 fried potato flake...."

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