28 Mar
2009
28 Mar
'09
8:46 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
You can't even get pine today... well ok if you import it from Sweden!
so much for living in Canada.
I am grumblimg at the $500 schematic/cad program I have ...
sure a zillion surface mount parts but not a transformer or tube in sight.
Or laying out
14 AWG busbar on mahogany breadboards between surface-mount
(meaning that they're attached with woodscrews) components.
BTDT too, though it was probably pine and not mahogany. I remember Octal
sockets you could invert (solder lugs up) and still plug the tubes into them,
which came in handy for that kind of a setup. Times change,
and all too frequently, we don't. All we can do is
grumble.
And inform the younguns when they need a little help now and then, because
they don't have quite the necessary grasp on the basics.