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0 pointsGordonjcp3y ago0 comments

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?

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mindcrime3y ago· 2 in thread

Is this the same place?

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. :-)

mgsouth3y ago

The 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!"

GordonjcpOP3y ago

That'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.

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