I was going to say tha same!

Yep !

Threaded holes too, to secure the 5 pin din sockets. Not a nut in sight !

That's nothing compared to some of his other videos. Watch the one where he machines two aluminum hinges for a turntable lid.

The mind boggles (but in a nice way).

In his new workshop too!

O my yesssssssssssss

Yes please indeed

That was 51 minutes? It seemed more like 5...

This is me, every single time Mark posts a new video.

The sound is great! Love hearing the creaking of the old stuff.

Yeah... I've always thought how on earth can have all those comps. And he makes everything seems so easy, I think I could easily spend 2 hours just making the last 2 adapter plates.

As it happens, me. 🤣 I have a stack of those ICs along with many others that I saved from way back in the 1980s when I used to work on old CRT TV sets. They used these ICs and when I got out of the TV servicing game I still had all the trays of parts. You're right though, not many people would have such parts these days.

multiple versions AND the staggered pin variant...amazing!

You can find these in a lot of early 70's cabinet stereograms like Fergusons etc., they often go for peanuts so not a bad source for old stock unobtanium radio parts.

A guy who makes videos!

we are mere mortals, whereas Mark is next level

Yeah, with me the phrase "...well, it looks as if I'm going to have to......." is usually followed by "bollocks", or the like. With Mark, "...well, it looks as if I'm going to have to......." just has the air of "Come with me on a magical adventure, who knows what we shall find ! " It do raise the spirit !

In any given situation I try to keep in mind the line from that Elvis Costello song "Oh, I used to be disgusted / And now, I try to be amused /... " and of course the fall-back Hunter S Thompson quote: "When the going gets weird the weird turn pro".

He's a British man in a shed. There's no one on the planet more happy.

I guess such things from Mark end up on the cutting room floor. 🙂

Not to mention white incandescent light bulbs shining through coloured transparent plastic.

Why not gather dust when you needn't?

KZfaq doesn't officially have dislikes anymore, whatever extension you're using to "bring them back" might be fudging the numbers.

@@Nukle0n this

Must be a loose ground cable somewhere, it's within the specs.

If true they might be watching Mark upside down, thus confusing the dislike button for the like button.

@@Tokaisho1aussies... gotcha

OK, no one do anything silly like travel to Ruzzia to meet up with this person and then get arrested for "spying".

@@JeffreyGroves It is simple. If you aren't a spy, you will not be arrested.

😂

@@PaulHigginbothamSr Gidday Paul! Hey, what speakers does Mark use in his workshop? Probly some kind of bookshelf ones ay? I heard em but never seenem! - Never in his old workshop either.

@phantom62. Regarding your next door neighbour working at Goodmans Speakers in Havant. Back in the last century, TDA (Thorn Domestic Appliances) had a factory in Havant. So were Goodmans part of TDA at that time?

@@markmiwurdz2248 I don't think they were. TDA I believe, owned Kenwood who made the Kenwood Chef mixers, which is still in Havant. Goodmans was swallowed up by Harvard International. My father was lucky in getting a speaker kit at a huge discount!

Indeed, how true.

There's no substitute for experience....He's an artisan at work. 😊

I thought is was a good idea, but actually the cracks didn't go away, so afraid it's just a matter of time. Plus the penultimate cap of the larger buttons broke as he pushed it on 22:17. His website says he's got loads of work and I wonder if he's having to rush things.

Although badged Goodmans it was made by Thorn who also owned the Ferguson brand.

Maybe you could box up all your redundant spares & send them to Mark, so he can continue to wow us all with his repairs? Sometimes it's not all about the money. I had some old aviation headsets & general aircraft switches/spare parts that would've easily sold on ebay, but I sent them to an aircraft preservation group; they were so appreciative. A couple of my old GE taxi-light bulbs (that I used as dummy loads!) enabled their restored aircraft to have two functional taxi-lights for the first time in many years :)

@@wirdy1 Yes, I may do that, it's not all about the money at the end of the day.

Went looking for this comment, had the same thought when i seen all the goofy white insulation material and plastic screws.

The ground pin is isolated from the socket flange anyway so there was no need for all that nylon screw/glue bodgery. Take another look, there's no ground loop. Mark knows his stuff...!

@@robturner3065 That's only true if the sockets aren't being used. On flying leads, the cable screen tends to be connected to the outer shell so, with the new setup, the cable screens will be connected to the chassis where they weren't before. Whether that'll be a problem or not in any particular setup is another matter.

@@colinstamp9053 the body of a correctly wired din plug will have no connection between it and pin 2. The body of the plug and the flange of the socket are extensions of chassis ground. Pin 2 is signal ground.

@robturner3065 Ah yes but there lies the issue. Ground loops occur in all sorts of unexpected ways. and in the case of this specific bit of kit, they most likely floated the screen of the DIN cable away from chassis ground. Because having two pieces of interconnected audio gear both with their own mains earthed chassis, then a bond between their chassis, effectively makes a ground loop. balanced audio signals should be able to reject any current that develops on this new path, but single ended signals especially low gain ones sporting only tens of mV will easily have the loop current induced on to them. You wouldnt necessarily notice this in a bench test if your DIN test lead has the screen floating at the breakout end, since theres no loop in that scenario. All this to say, ground loops are a pain in the butt, and sometimes multiple paths to earth are fine, other times they make you want to tear your hair out trying to get rid of them haha. I know Mark knows his stuff, he blows my mind with the new skills he shows almost every video he posts. but honest mistakes could happen. And again might not be apparent until the unit is installed with actual complementary audio accessories.

There are many philosophies for a restoration, as a technician I forgive Mark for laying the DIN socket housing on the ground here, the result is perfect from a restoration point of view. The device will no longer experience the situation of being operated in conjunction with other devices and then experiencing a hum loop. These used to be every hi-fi fan's nightmare.

These demodulator chips are constantly broken, so it's worth systematically collecting the ones that still work.

@@infoyoutube5384 Yes, I know that! I was just making a joke around Mark’s outstanding creativity and limitless talent. It obviously went over your house, never mind you head! 😂