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   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   The Russian FED 4 camera was extremely robust, even after me, and my dad   
   before me, dropped it many many times on rocks.   
      
      
   On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 10:22:01 -0000, Brian Gaff (Sofa)  wrote:   
      
   > This is not a new thing though is it? Back in the days of the USSR we used   
   > to get a lot of stuff like cassette machines and  radios and even black and   
   > whit tvs from Soviet bloc countries. Some were OK, but a little  fragile but   
   > one I remember made by  a company in the  Czech area called Tesla had a   
   > great design and a great sound as a recorder player that ran form the mains.   
   > The sad part was that it seemed to have been manufactured by idiots in that   
   > all the riveted bits were loose, the flywheel was not on straight and the   
   > motor and induction type, was doubling as the mains transformer and   
   > basically over a  three month period it gradually fell to bits chewed tape   
   > and finally the brackets that held the piano keys fell of completely.   
   >   
   > Like most things, a lot of things are designed well but cheap manufacture   
   > and lack of quality control and corner cutting on components ruin them.   
   >  Brian   
      
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