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Old 21st Jan 2017, 8:14 am   #32
Boater Sam
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Location: Middlewich, Cheshire, UK. & Winter in the Philippines.
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Default Re: Parts from the Philippines!!!

Graham yo have a PM reply.

The search for 7 seg display tubes is coming up with nothing, though I did find a guy today who knew what I was on about, that's a first!

One good shop I have used in the past appears to have gone in the last 9 months, sadly a common story these days.

Printer ribbon and typewriter ribbon searches are not good either, the consensus is that they are too old and were not common enough for there to be any lying around, but we shall try. If anyone else suggests scrapping and buying something up to date i.e. laser, I'll scream. Would it be possible to put a new ribbon in the old cassette, reels of ribbon still on ebay. Would not do the colour though.

Even inkjet is rapidly becoming old hat here.
I can understand it, you can buy a combi printer, scanner, fax for less than the cost of one ribbon for the Smith Corona typewriter, its a crazy world.

Heartbreakingly, I am still seeing piles of CRTs dumped in side streets,drains and fields, unbroken. No scrap value you see. Impossible to fly them back, not allowed.

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