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Hi Steve, the turret board in your gallery looks just like the original RS ones! Are these still available?
Thanks in advance,
Blewsbreaker

Blewsbreaker,
That's because it is the same.
The oldies around here know the history from previous postings, but basically.
Marshall bought sheets of the ' hole board ' from RS who were and still are an electronics supplier as a sheet 27 X 21 holes.
They then cut the sheet into 3 pieces 27 X 7 holes, probably to be economical. Then they rivetted the turret tags in and populated the board by hand. Now the bad news, they stopped stocking it and we haven't been able to find who made it YET. They still sell the turret tags. I have just got some fresh in from them and they are in a small plastic bag with an amateur looking label, so somewhere in England somebody is making them for RS. If I can find out who I can probably find who made (and probably still makes the board). They are expensive at £10 a 100. But it makes for an easy, secure and original looking job. I have a few new sheets left and some reclaimed bits, but I am afraid I intend to use every one. If I can hunt down the original manufacturer or find NOS which is where mine came from, don't worry I will post it on the site.

Steve UK

stevesuk wrote:Blewsbreaker,
That's because it is the same.
The oldies around here know the history from previous postings, but basically.
Marshall bought sheets of the ' hole board ' from RS who were and still are an electronics supplier as a sheet 27 X 21 holes.
They then cut the sheet into 3 pieces 27 X 7 holes, probably to be economical. Then they rivetted the turret tags in and populated the board by hand. Now the bad news, they stopped stocking it and we haven't been able to find who made it YET. They still sell the turret tags. I have just got some fresh in from them and they are in a small plastic bag with an amateur looking label, so somewhere in England somebody is making them for RS. If I can find out who I can probably find who made (and probably still makes the board). They are expensive at £10 a 100. But it makes for an easy, secure and original looking job. I have a few new sheets left and some reclaimed bits, but I am afraid I intend to use every one. If I can hunt down the original manufacturer or find NOS which is where mine came from, don't worry I will post it on the site.

Steve UK

Hello Steve,

Harwin is still making these turrets in different sizes.

http://www.harwin.com/components/termin ... rminal.asp

I have bought mine from Genalog, the British distributor for Harwin Parts. The only problem, they have minimum order quantities from about 500 pcs for each size.

My bobbin manufacture, also located in the UK, has made me some prototypes of the Hiwatt tagboards, so if there is some demand, I have to ask him for this boards.

Kind regards
Ingo

Ingo,
That is brilliant, I often visit Portsmouth where thay are based. RS charges around £11 (15.69 euros, $20 ?) a 100 for the tags. This seems expensive to me. I bought 1000 from RS last time and they are getting used fast.

I have discovered a company who claims they are using the original RS hole board " made by the original manufacturer ". So I am on the trail of the UK manufacturer who made/makes it. It is not Veroboard who make most of the UK's circuit board, or any of the manufaturers listed in the Farnell catalogue.

What we need is a really old RS catalogue that used to have the manufacturers name against each component. They stopped doing that in the 80's ? Anybody got one ?

Steve UK

Hello Steve,

can you just send me a picture from a complete board? I would send it to my bobbin manufacture. He knows really all the old good sources. The biggest problem is, that many companies has closed down over the years. He has worked for the Transformer Manufacture "Albion" in the UK and he is talking often about the VOX area. They have closed at the end of the seventies

Kind regards
Ingo