pete.young

I'm a volunteer delivery driver for FareShare. FareShare is a registered charity which coordinates the collection of food and other items from supermarkets, wholesalers, logistics companies, and distribution to food banks, churches, schools and other charities. One of the things we do is collect the items donated into the Tesco donation boxes. Besides the items donated by generous customers, the store uses the boxes as an efficient way of getting items to FareShare which are nearing their 'use by' or 'best before' dates. We weigh all collections and notify the stores, and they are able to display a thank-you message with this information on the boxes usually stating how many meals have been donated at a particular location in the last month. What annoys me is not the boxes but the thankfully few members of the public who use the boxes as a dumping ground for out-of-date produce when they clear out their cupboards. Last week at one store there was an item donated with 'use by' date of 2021. This just wastes everybody's time. Why they don't just put stuff like that into the normal recycling/waste collection service I have no idea. The donations add up, and some of the bigger stores in wealthy areas contribute a lot of stuff, by far the biggest source of donations is direct from the supermarkets themselves to the FareShare depots. I would estimate we get 60-70 percent of our donations directly from the supermarkets we work closely with, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsburys and Marks and Spencer. The public doesn't see this side of it. As others have said, none of this should be necessary in an ideal world, but the food distribution model in the UK is fundamentally broken. Efforts by organisations like FareShare are a sticking plaster over the cracks, but from what I see of our end customers, the need is real and growing.

I had an EBS Neo 2x12 for many years which would fit the bill. Available used for about £450. Brilliant cab.

Is there an argument for turning the tweeter in the bottom cab through 90 degrees in this configuration?

In this case, I'm entirely responsible. I've learnt my lesson - no more guesswork, take it to someone who knows.

There's a happy ending to the story. The amp is now fixed and there was nothing wrong with the power module. I'm going to describe it briefly, in case someone else has the same problem and finds this thread. The Amp Genius who fixed it initially took off the top cover, unscrewed the aluminium front panel, cleaned everything and it started working again. Until he put the top cover back on , when it stopped working again. There were two problems: firstly the front panel wasn't earthed, instead relying on the securing screws fixing it to the chassis for an earth connection. Secondly , the pots are mounted on the front panel and connected to the PCB by thin metal strips with a 90 degree bend and a shoulder that goes through the back of the PCB. The shoulder of some of these pot connectors was making contact with the tracks on the PCB, and causing a short. The fix was to file back the shoulders of the offending pot connectors, and properly earth the front panel to the chassis. I've included an amp guts picture I took at the time which illustrates the panel and pot connections. For an added bonus, the thermal sensor on the heat sink had failed, so AG replaced it with a 50 deg C sensor and the fan now comes on and off when needed.

LM-2 seems to do what you want - plug the 2 channels into A and B returns and use the A+B setting.

Before my hands toughened up , I used to put surgical spirit on the blisters. I have Presto Lights on now, which seem to be a lot kinder than the Lycon I started off with.

Couldn't find the original but here's a cover by Geoff Palmer:

Very popular with Dr Spooner, or so I'm told.

What a lovely thing. I had no idea that these existed.

Used to have an Ohm PA amp which was a decent bit of cheap kit. This would have been 1977 - 79 ish.