Kuba Komet on Ebay

[Phil Nelson]

Yes, I believe that Komets originally had rectangular CRTs, like most B/W TVs of their time. The first time I saw the ETF's set, it had been recently acquired and was still disassembled, showing a rectangular CRT.

In one of the eBay photos, you can see that the CRT is pushed back somewhat from the mask. Whether that's the original CRT or something else, I couldn't guess from such a partial view.

Phil Nelson

[cbenham]

Originally Posted by Josef

http://www.ebay.at/itm/ws/eBayISAPI....:B:WNA:AT:1123

Greetings and a happy new year!

Why does Vk truncate the eBay URLs?

It appears like this in the post:
http://www.ebay.at/itm/ws/eBayISAPI....:B:WNA:AT:1123

Note the section missing in the middle.

Or is it my PC?

Thanks for any help.
Cliff

[Phil Nelson]

There's nothing wrong with your PC. The forum software automatically truncates the displayed (and highlighted) representation of a URL when it exceeds a certain length. This is done to reduce visual clutter for very long URLs.

The actual (full-length) URL is hidden in the HTML code that makes up the page. When you click on the shortened display, your browser goes to the actual URL. You can see how this works if you view the HTML source for this page, but that's only interesting to HTML geeks.

For some time now, all eBay links shown in VK are dead unless you right-click on the link and choose Open. Don't ask me why this happens. It may be related to the forum software that automatically highlights and makes links out of certain commercial words and phrases.

Phil Nelson

[Geoff Bourquin]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

For some time now, all eBay links shown in VK are dead unless you right-click on the link and choose Open. Don't ask me why this happens. It may be related to the forum software that automatically highlights and makes links out of certain commercial words and phrases.

Phil Nelson

That's interesting. I can left-click them and the Ebay page opens in a new tab. Maybe it has something to do with your browser settings or security software. I'm running OpenSuse 11.4 with Firefox 16.0.2 on a Gnome 2.something desktop.

I also noticed that the CRT in that Komet doesn't seem to fit the mask properly. I wonder why...

[Sandy G]

The Germans DO have an unfortunate tendency to take something simple & make something FIENDISHLY complex out of it.

[Down Under]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

The Germans DO have an unfortunate tendency to take something simple & make something FIENDISHLY complex out of it.

Soooo true. I like the Komet, but I'd bet that the internals were awful. I used to repair appliances for a living and Miele dishwashers are so complicated compared to most others. They seem to have a philosophy "why use one part when we can use 15?"