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it sounds like your goose is cooked!
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Not just the 3D Printer (yay!) but also ... a headphone refurbish kit.
Replacement foam head band, over-ear foam pads and inner foam, new plug-in Sennheiser cables.
5 minutes and boom! Like new again.
I bought these (Sennheiser HD580 Precision) back in the early 90's, and they weren't cheap then. So I was thinking of replacing them, but ... it's difficult, they were damn good headphones, and the modern equivalent is the 660S at around £400 a set. I find it kinda difficult to justify spending that much on headphones fer gawds sake! But the head band foam was less than 1mm thick, the ear foam covering had frayed badly, the inner foam was missing - presumed blown to pieces by too much loud music. And there was an intermittent break in the right hand side cable so I had to sit with my head tilted to hear properly.
Then I saw you could still get replacement bits ... all in, less than £30.
And they are gorgeous again! Lovely sound, comfortable, perfect!
Repair, reuse, recycle ... you know it's worth it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Quote: Repair, reuse, recycle
I asked the doctor about that. He said it cannot be done in my case. I don't think the quack knows how to operate! 
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Cp-Coder wrote: He said it cannot be done in my case
I think "Recycle" only works on the Dalai Lama.
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Quote: "Recycle" only works on the Dalai Lama
Are you sure? Rats! 
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Quote:
ON ILKLA MOOR BAHT'AT
(Traditional English - Yorkshire)
Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee,
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane|
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall ha' to bury thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall ha' to bury thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then t'worms 'll cum and eat thee oop
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then t'worms 'll cum and eat thee oop
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then ducks 'll cum and eat oop t'worms
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then ducks 'll cum and eat oop t'worms
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall go an' ate oop ducks
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall go an' ate oop ducks
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall all 'ave etten thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Then we shall all 'ave etten thee
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
That's wheer we get us oahn back
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
That's wheer we get us oahn back
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 25-Dec-19 10:47am.
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Now you've done gone and scared me! 
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That's "Standard Yorkshire" - and pretty much incomprehensible unless you grew up on a diet of mushy peas, black pudding, and Whippet sandwiches. Yorkshiremen are forbidden from teaching Standard Yorkshire to mere mortals, on pain of permanent exile to Lancashire and a lifetime ban from drinking tea.
In English that would be:
Where have you been since I saw you, I saw you?
On Ilkley Moor without a hat
Where have you been since I saw you, I saw you?
Where have you been since I saw you?
On Ilkley Moor without a hat
On Ilkley Moor without a hat
On Ilkley Moor without a hat
You've been courting Mary Jane
You're bound to catch your death of cold
Then we will have to bury you
Then the worms will come and eat you up
Then the ducks will come and eat up the worms
Then we will go and eat up the ducks
Then we will all have eaten you
That's where we get our own back
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Thanks for translating, but I did get some of it!
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OriginalGriff wrote: the inner foam was missing - presumed blown to pieces
Don't worry. Those pieces have found permanent residence in your inner ear canal.
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Eh? What? Pardon - you'll have to type UP A BIT, I'm going a little mutton.
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Is that a BYTE of mutton?
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Only if it has some mint sauce with it.
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Makes me wonder if I should renovate my old AKG K260 headphones?
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Looks like you can still find parts for 'em on FleaBay!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Harrumph - lucky you is all I can say.
Back in the late eighties I was working in Bahrein, and had to make a trip over the causeway to Al Khobar, where I happened upon a HiFi shop that sold me a set of Stax electrostatic 'Ear speakers' - much too posh to be just headphones. They cost around five hundred bucks, which I thought pretty good back then.
Move on thirty plus years, and I decided that as the power supply was dodgy, and the volume control a bit hit and miss, I would replace them. Off to Amazon I go, and then went into serious cardiac arrhythmia. Three and half thousand ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing quid!
Needless to say, the soldering iron was wheeled out and a massive amount of TLC applied. The volume control is now external, as the original was part of the circuit board, and the power supply replaced and directly soldered to the board as the socket had cracked away from it.
MrsLadyWife is not overly enamoured with the four piece combo (headphones, power supply, amplifier and volume control) and a four metre cable littering 'her' drawing room, but the complaints lessen considerably when I mutter about spending £3.5k on a replacement.
The problem really stems from her liking to watch television of an evening, whereas I much prefer to read and listen to the great groups of yesteryear, like Mo's Art, Jo's off hidin' and Beat Oven.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Repair, reuse, recycle ... you know it's worth it.
Most companies are spending resources on preventing that 
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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It is appreciated
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I have never been lonely except when I've been surrounded by people
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Isn't that the worst kind of loneliness?
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So many lonely people, in an overpopulated world.
Your own choice. It doesn't take much to reach out.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Quote: It doesn't take much to reach out.
Now why would I want to do that? 
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