{"id":5073,"date":"2022-03-05T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2022-03-06T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T08:35:32","slug":"flea-market-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5073","title":{"rendered":"Flea Market Find"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cape Town Amateur Radio Club<\/a> traditionally has a flea market at the beginning of March. This year I didn’t take anything to sell, and strictly speaking I didn’t buy anything either — I said “ooh nice!” the fellow said “take it” so I gave him R20 and said “take it”.<\/p>\n

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“SEC” is probably Something Electronic Company, there’s a “JAPAN” sticker on the back.<\/p>\n

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Inside is fairly mundane, a tapped transformer, a selenium rectifier<\/a> which dates it to the late fifties \/ early sixies, a pi filter with two caps and a resistor, a series light bulb “O.C.L.” and a couple meters and associated resistors.<\/p>\n

It’s pretty, it’s going on the shelf.<\/p>\n

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The Cape Town Amateur Radio Club traditionally has a flea market at the beginning of March. This year I didn’t take anything to sell, and strictly speaking I didn’t buy anything either — I said “ooh nice!” the fellow said “take it” so I gave him R20 and said “take it”. “SEC” is probably Something Electronic Company, there’s a “JAPAN” sticker on the back. Inside is fairly mundane, a tapped transformer, a selenium rectifier which dates it to the late fifties \/ early sixies, a pi filter with two caps and a resistor, a series light bulb “O.C.L.” and a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}