When you are pulling apart engines, machinery, and hydraulics, and you need protection to plug off or cap fluid lines, ports and threads, throw away the rags and the tape and contact Hi-Q components.
They stock the Stockcap range, manufactured by Australia’s Sinclair & Rush, who produce hundreds if not thousands of protective plastic caps and plugs for applications including high-temperature masking, shipping protection, contamination control, and health and safety.
For more information or to request a catalogue, contact [email protected], or phone 0800 800 293, or buy online at https://www.hiq.co.nz/
Valve radios: Retro Radio magic
16 April 2025
The family gathering around the wireless to listen to the Friday evening programme may be a thing of the distant past but the beauty of those old valve-driven radios lives on in the dedicated work of Retro Radios.
Based in Dannevirke, Alister Ramsay works from an assortment of sheds, a garage and a container lovingly restoring old valve radios and radiograms. In a workshop redolent of the glory days of the 1940s to the 1960s, with nostalgic posters for Life magazine and a smattering of old cameras – another hobby is collecting old cameras – Alister works to a background of smooth jazz issuing from a variety of beautifully restored valve radios producing warm-toned music to set the mood.
