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Six years and counting

Posted: Sun 09 Feb 2014 10:47 pm
by Tony
My Fine Offset station celebrates it's sixth birthday today. Mostly original except for the "windy" bits, these have been replaced a number of times; it's currently on only it's second set of batteries!

Tony.

http://www.zen55853.zen.co.uk/camera/coffee_1.htm

Re: Six years and counting

Posted: Sun 09 Feb 2014 11:35 pm
by studebaker
Happy Birthday :clap: My Fine Offset recently celebrated it's third birthday. I too had to replace a windy bit, the one that goes 'round and 'round. My fault tho', I whacked it one too many times after it had frozen following freezing rain. :oops:

http://web.ripnet.com/~mbkerr/index.HTM

Re: Six years and counting

Posted: Mon 10 Feb 2014 11:02 am
by hills
Hahaha!! My first F/O made it to 4 years and I only replaced it because of the round and round windy bit too! :)

That said, the wig wag windy bit was showing signs of age too. ;)

Re: Six years and counting

Posted: Mon 10 Feb 2014 11:19 am
by tumutbound
hills wrote:Hahaha!! My first F/O made it to 4 years and I only replaced it because of the round and round windy bit too! :)

That said, the wig wag windy bit was showing signs of age too. ;)
Are these technical, meteorological terms in the Wiki? :D
What do you call the rain gathering thingy?

Re: Six years and counting

Posted: Mon 10 Feb 2014 12:32 pm
by hills
tumutbound wrote:
Are these technical, meteorological terms in the Wiki? :D
What do you call the rain gathering thingy?
Are you implying its not called the rain gathering thingy?? :o ;)

Re: Six years and counting

Posted: Mon 10 Feb 2014 1:32 pm
by water01
Mine is coming up to it's 3rd birthday and to-date (fingers crossed) I haven't had to replace anything except the batteries. Found that a liberal use of WD40 on the wind parts each year keeps them in working order.

Re: Six years and counting

Posted: Mon 10 Feb 2014 5:32 pm
by nitrx
Mine is 4 years and 3 months batteries replaced 1 time (so 4 alkanines) in more as 4 years.