Chatterbox Tuesday

I think it dates from around the 70s. It doesn't have a moulded plug, just a cable with two wires poking out the end, and no earth. Is that normal? Did you have to provide your own plugs in the 70s?

I have just discovered my cat is not a fan of Follow the Fool by Primus. Woke up and bolted out of the room

Shenguin - worth a try

It is normal for a stereo just to have a live and neutral wire to be connected.
All UK electrical products would have come with a plug. It is possible someone scavenged it to use elsewhere. The old plugs used to get brittle as they aged and would sometimes break.
They did not used to be moulded to the wire. I don't think that came in as standard until 1994.

I certainly learned how to wire plugs as a child (under supervision). It used to be a common hobby. Along with glue sniffing, building airfix models and subbuteo. We were pretty glad when the internet was invented.

You can still buy replacement plugs.  They are very easy to fit. You need a small headed screwdriver. Connect the brown live wire to the pin attached to the fuse. The blue wire connects to the other short pin. If there is an earth wire it connects to the third pin. Make sure no bare wires are touching each other. Tighten everything up and you are good to go. I'd check the stereo comes on before connecting speakers or putting it in place. It's quite possible with old equipment that something in it is broken.

There is always a tingling thrill of excitement when you have repaired an electrical item or computer and plug it in. If the tingle continues for more than a second or two you've mis-wired it. 

1) Cat grooming ladies
2) cattery workers
3) people who insist cat meets cat grooming ladies
4) People who take cat to cattery
5) Everything else

Things cats do like

1) People who rescue cat from cattery even if they would normally fall under category 4 or category 5 above.

We had a long haired tortoiseshell cat who needed grooming ebery few months. This would lead to a fight. It was very important to catch the cat, securely, in a position where scratching and biting was not possible, before she saw the grooming ladies. Once the ladies were seen all rules were suspended. The cat knew who they were. They knew how to deal with her. There was a wrestling hold that pinned the cat down. It prevented biting and made kicking and scratching ineffective. It did not prevent hissing or spitting or swearing.

Oddly enough once it was groomed the cat would not sulk about it.

Terry Duckworth, aka Terence 'Danky' Dakyl.

RIP in pieces.

Found electrocuted to death on this day, the eighth of Novembris 2022 AC/DC. Spilled Rod Hull on an old stereo whilst stood in the bath.

For eva in are harts.

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More ducks ...

Not quite slitting your throat, but it's a start. Well done for putting the effort in.

I got 2 likes for a post on the Grundian 'Your Money' thingy. Take that, British Gas.

The Minister without Portfolio has lost his portfolio.

I realise in the scheme of things when it comes to Tories being arseholes, that posting a letter in twitter as an image without alt-txt is insignificant - but they fucking all do it.

I think I have a dead car battery.