Subject: Re: [Homestead] Ancient Ham Radio Gear - Was survival plan
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:12:04 -0400
> tvoivozhd---had one of those too., and a machine for restoring dead TV
> monitors.
>
Ah yes, that contraption that overheated the filament and then vibrated the
cathode until the oxidation flaked off giving you a clean raster for a
little while longer. My very last Heathkit I built was the transistor curve
tracer that fed into the oscilloscope for the display. That way I could
buy up those drums of industrial surplus transistors and check the paramters
of the good ones and use them in my repair business.
Jesus, what a head full of old useless things I have.
" Nam memini etiam quae nolo, oblivisci non possum quae volo "
Cicero in De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum
"Teach me not the art of remembering,but the art of forgetting;For, I
remember things that I do not wish to remember but, I cannot forget things I
would wish to forget".
James
[Homestead] Where to buy was: Wall Street reacts
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