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 Return to top of page · Post #: 16 · Written at 4:50:57 PM on 8 September 2020.
Keith Walters's avatar
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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.
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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.
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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.
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5.5 inch TV kit looks interesting


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 20 · Written at 9:12:59 AM on 9 September 2020.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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" Smile
So a computer could be described as having a "Z80 fried potato flake...."


 
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