Nice train station and good eye Chuck!
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On 10/27/2010 11:36 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Turns out I was wrong about not having an image of the Marconi tower.
> It's here along with the old Lackawanna railroad station.
> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Binghamton/img_7017e.htm>
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> It's the last in a series of photos of downtown Binghamton, NY.
> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Binghamton/index.htm>
>
> Maybe Brian is watching. Hey, Brian. Here's some more of my stuff. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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> On 10/27/2010 3:45 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
>> Thanks for that - before my time tho'
>>
>> On 26 October 2010 22:43, Chuck Norcutt<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, Marconi. Here's a little piece of local Marconi history.
>>> <http://www.everythingradio.com/Marconi%20Tower.htm>
>>> Somewhere I have a much better photo but it's not on my site.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
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>>>
>>> On 10/26/2010 4:31 PM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
>>>> As an apprentice (while doing a year in industry before going to
>>>> university - a so-called thick-sandwich course - one of my assignments
>>>> was in the inspection team in a metalworking section. This was 1970/1
>>>> and the company (Marconi) had recently switched to 'unified' threads.
>>>> All our equipment racks (for Royal Navy radio gear) had warning labels
>>>> attached "Some threads are unified" (which we sang to the tune of La
>>>> Donna e Mobile from Rigoletto).
>>>>
>>>> Up to that time a huge mixture of threads had been used and moving to
>>>> UNC/UNF was a great simplification. Of course moving to metric
>>>> sometime later was even 'better'.
>>>>
>>>> As I recall, there is a one-way compatibility between some sizes - but
>>>> it was what we called a 'rattling good fit'. The other way was ok for
>>>> a few turns but could bind. All down to the thread angles...
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