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J Bull Electrical in England used to sell "Big Trak Gearboxes", the little plastic gearboxes with two motors, for a few pounds for *years*. For all I know they
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
J Bull Electrical in England used to sell "Big Trak Gearboxes", the little plastic gearboxes with two motors, for a few pounds for *years*. For all I know they still do. Their website is as full of bizarre stuff as their magazine ads used to be - from random bags of components to Sinclair C5 motors to the aforementioned gearboxes to Chinese Army air rifles which were so powerful you needed a firearms cert for them even back in the comparatively lax 1980s!
I'm glad to see they're still on the go. Their adverts in Wireless World and Television were a great source of wonder for my geeky friends and I when I was at school some 30-odd years ago, and finding they're still as batshit as ever has cheered me up no end.
Now I wonder if Display Electronics ever shifted those 9" bare chassis Microvitec colour monitors from National Air Traffic Control, or indeed their deactivated heat-seeking missiles?
- mindcrime 4y agoIs this the same place? https://www.bullybeef.co.uk/ https://www.bullybeef.co.uk/ If so, they remind me a bit of outfits like American Science & Surplus, or Electronics Goldmine. Real eclectic collection of bizarre and weird stuff. :-)
- Gordonjcp 4y agoThat's the one. Mad, isn't it? They used to take out full-page ads with their surplus electronics and air rifles and bike tyres and ghods alone know what else.
- mgsouth 4y agoThe Contents sidebar has a category for "CARNIVEROUS". Edit: Also "NUCLEAR", "PUB GAMES", "RADIOSONDE", and of course "FART BOMBS". Curse you GP, for another rabbit hole. Edit edit: Oh and "TRUTH". Edit3: One more and I'll stop: "water resistant alarm chrono digital watches with built in refillable gas lighter!"