14 Jun
2006
14 Jun
'06
1:30 p.m.
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at
sydex.com>
On 6/13/2006 at 8:22 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Hi
I did my first short wave receiver from an article in "Boys Life".
I use a piece of ply wood and borrowed a neighbors router
to make channels for all the wires and screws. It didn't
need the corner feet :)
Dwight
That was the way I learned how to build things as
well, only we started
with a hunk of blank sheet metal and ended up with a 5-tube radio. :-)
In my case, it was a piece of 3/4" thick pine board. If you didn't have
surface-mount sockets, you mounted the under-chassis type with spacers so
the lugs cleared the board for soldering. Back then, nice straight wires
taking right angle bends was a sign of careful construction. My father did
likewise in his day, only his wires weren't insulated and tended to be
around 14 AWG instead of my 18 AWG DCC wire.
Those were the days of real "breadboards".
Cheers,
Chuck