FOAK: Plasterboard walls and LCD TVs

As Wales is such a lovely place and the houses are so reasonably priced
- why can't you afford one with a bedroom large enough for a bed and a
small TV? Does the bedroom door open outwards?

 

Erm, we just don't have any suitable furniture to put a CRT set on, and
I'm not changing decent furniture for something else just to sit a telly
on it.

No. Although I don't see how this matters.

 

Why bother with a TV in the bedroom - or has the wife turned into a bit
of a munter these days?

 

Sunday morning, coffee and croissants, Sunday Times and News24.

 

Has yours stopped taking you from behind, yet?

 

We had these in an old house securing a radiator to a partition wall.
Every time I removed the rad I unscrewed the bolts and let the wings
drop into the partition. Then simply use new fixings when replacing it.

 

Sounds ghastly. Get up and eat brekkie in the garden - or if you must
wallow around in bed listen to the wireless.

 

You've had a hard life and strange life haven't you?

 

"steam radio"

 

This assumes you have a) ones that do that b) they actually do that.

The one I had wouldn't unscrew, wouldn't let go... it was just a general
palaver.

 

Get a radio, and tune it to BBC Radio Four.

 

It's got to be mounted to the internal wall, that's why.

 

Why not? It's only 2.4GHz - I know high range hearing drops off with
age, but for good ness sake...

Anyway in Wales they can only Get Radio Taff on VHF or the Home Serice
on Long Wave.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (SteveH)
saying something like:

Ceiling, laddy. Look up - there are skinny beams in that ceiling.

After you've fastened your bedroom muff-diving-while-dangling-from
the-light-fitting apparatus to them, you can also screw the brackets for
your telly.

 

I fit CRT and plasma's into pubs for a living These are the
strongest cavity fixings I've found to date :
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?ts=00153&id=18266
Make sur you really tighten them all the way in. Fixing to the
studding is still the best bet though.
Mike.
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Simon Atkinson scribbled:

I know, too many ultrasound discos when I were young...

BBC world Service, I remember having a tour round the transmitter
place, water cooled valves two feet high, glowing orange, job going for
someone to look at the dials all day long and play cards...

 

Wooferton. Water cooled output valves on the TX - nice...

 

Heh - they don't like it up 'em Mr Mainwaring...

I do like wandering around big transmitters... Happy days. We used to
use quite a small one on a station I worked on 2.5kW AM it was. It had
a slight fault that the top of one of the TX valves would gradually
charge up to a fair old voltage.

Listening to the output you'd occasionally hear a little click - in the
TX room, however, it was like the end of the world as a spark would
leap about 3 feet to a metal support bracket...

Eventually I got fed up with it and soldered a small choke between
earth and the top of the valve and stopped it - and also cancelled the
type approval but I was fed up of being the shortest path to earth
whenever I walked past.