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23:45 - the advice to re-cap comes from pre-1970s TVs when they used duomold, Hunts and wax-paper capacitors, which really haven’t lasted the test of time.

Happy birthday nice find. If you ever get chance Michael could you post a video explaining the idea setup for a beginner who looking to do some basic repairs?

4:15 - the Videocolor tubes are great! They last a long time with a bright picture. Mine has been working continuously since 1981/82 still with a tube as bright as when it was new and it’s one of the first Mk4s, yours is a Mk4A from 1983/84/85 time as it has Rediffusion’s CITAC tuning system.

The Rediffusion Mk2 was made especially for the South African market when TV started there in 1975.

What a shop, I could spend all day in there although I don’t think my wife would be happy.

Do you want a big Samsung PS-42E7HD plasma set (free). If so, I'll bring it you on Wednesday (28th August). Richard

Great stuff and well done in sorting it.

You have just cost me £200. If you hadn't told me about Birkett's I wouldn't have gone and had a great day out.😊 Bought myself an R1115 receiver and couldn't be happier. What a great place, thanks for letting us all know about it.

Outstanding knowlage

Brilliant fault finding lesson

I bought my first electronics book from Johnny Birkett, back in @1971. Wonderful chap, much missed.

Love it!

Michael - what a find! I wonder if there are any of these shops still around closer to home - I am in Southampton so quite a hike up to Lincoln - do you know of any? I can remember the 1970's wireless world and everyday electronics mags full of adverts for ex gov surplus but now all long gone. regards Nick

Happy Birthday MD - Like a kid in a sweetshop. I was also 60 this year, so I'm putting this place on my 'To Visit' list. Thanks for sharing

Happy Birthday Michael 🎉 whath a fantastic shop ,,it's like cristmas Ewe for us old nurdy electronic gay's !!

Happy birthday Michael! So many reasonably priced treasures in that shop. Wonderful!

I certainly hope that you had a good birthday, good sir, and hopefully many more! Looking forward to much more fine content!

Like a kid in a sweet shop ha ha 😂 seriously I want to be buried there. There used to be a place just like that near to where I still live in the 70s and I used to take the day off work and spend the day there in the company van too! I think now that where the place used to be is a housing estate, such a shame. Thank you Michael for the video and a very Happy belated birthday to you 🥳🎂🍻👍

Happy Birthday, young man. Loved that shop! Wish there were places like that still open here in Colorado. Long gone now.

Happy birthday

lovely and wonderful shop , it's like a dream land

Excellent! Also had displayproblems with mine. Just resoldered the current transistor, works fine again! A weak point in this circuitboard I think... Thank you for this very well explained video. Greetings from Belgium

Absolutely fantastic to see an old shop like this still going strong after all these years and has not been changed to a bookies or charity shop!

Happy Birthday Michael! What a great day 😀👍

Happy birthday !!!

Happy birthday 🎂🍰

Happy Birthday ..Fantastic shop and a brilliant video as always ....

Happy Birthday Michael. I saw J Birkitt a year before he passed, and he had his white work overcoat on as they would have had on in the 50's and 60's. wonderful I think its still open at the Strait in Lincoln

happy birthday

Crumbs, let's hope they survive. I was going to suggest a website for ordering etc but it would probably take forever to catalogue everything and manage it. Happy Birthday.

it's so sad to see this :( times change and good things turn into shit so fast. i wished there would be more stores like that , still. but i guess these times are gone. all is going to be "software defined" . *sight* anyways... happy birthday dear OM ! keep going

i can smell that shop from london :) happy birthday sir

It is nice to be like a kid again in a great sweat shop. Nice video micheal. Have a great. Few days

I can *smell* that shop from here 😀 Time was when London's Edgware Road was full of such shops. HL Smith, GW Smith and four branches of Henry's each with a different speciality. And then the shop (Samson's??) tucked away behind the tube station that shook every time a train rattled by underneath the shop.

There was a place in Middlesbrough; I think it was called Viners. And Proops Bros in Tottenham Court Road in London. (I think Proops still sells stuff but not the electronics that it used to.)

Thank you for sharing that. That is just absolutely awesome and amazing to still be able to access, albeit on a 200 mile round-trip.

Quite a rare goldmine...

It's almost an RF Potts in Derby

Happy birthday matey!

I once lived in Lincoln. As schoolboys in the early 1960's we would go to Birketts most days after school. John originally had a shop further up The Strait selling ex rental/spares/repair TV sets. He later moved to his now shop and began selling ex military surplus stuff. Nice to see the shop is still open.

I remember their advert in PW all those years ago. We had a similar shop in Sheffield in the 70s and 80s but I can't remember the name of it now. Thanks for posting Michael.

Thanks. I should make the effort and visit. Glad to see it's still open.

Happy Birthday michael, Best wishes🎂🍾

Thank you so much for this video. I discovered this shop by accident one day on holiday and could not believe that such a wonderful place could exist. It was an old chap running the place at the time and I spent some time in the shop. I'm so glad that it is still on the go, there are not enough shops like this around. pure gold. Thanks😃👍PS Happy Birthday🎂

Many happy returns, Michael. 👍

WOW Fantastic!! Thanks Michael a bit far fpr me in Cumbria but great to know

Hey Micheal I recently had a sweep of an old shop and got hold of a box full of valves including some nixy ones. If you're interested let me know and I'll send you some photos of them. The shop is still there and there are loads of things like what you bought. The chap died and the house got sold with the shop still rammed with parts.

Going off to Blackpool next year for my 51st birthday hope there is a vintage shop there.

Fantastic shop, we had a very similar shop in Worthing called GWM radio, sadly now long gone, I bought a ton of stuff in the closing down sale, spent many happy hours browsing through their stock.

Happy birthday!