2 Aug
2000
2 Aug
'00
10:39 a.m.
In the case of the tool I'd want, it's the SAME tool, using the SAME end to
wrap and unwrap.
What's really interesting is that the tool seems to work in either
direction, so when you're reworking a machine-wrapped board that has
opposite ends of each wire wrapped in opposite directions, you don't need
two unwrap tools.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Coward <dcoward(a)pressstart.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: Radio Shack Wire-Wrapping Tool
"Richard Erlacher"
<richard(a)idcomm.com> said:
>What??? They've got 'em again??? I'd best get down there and snag a
couple!
>Those are among a very few decent items
they've had in the 25 years or so
>since I first visited RS. It has a wire stripper in the handle, IIRC.
>That's one of the handiest tools I've had. It is quite capable of
producing
>highly serviceable wraps, yet doesn't require
you to mess up your
circuit.
What happened, did everyone throw away their electric wire wraping
guns???
I still have mine. :-> With it's power cord
it's too big to misplace, what
I keep losing is the unwrapping tool. Does this tool (P/N: 276-1570A) have
a unwrapping tool at one end??
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> said:
(I was dumbfounded to find someone that more or
less knew what I was
talking about).
I was just in a Radio Shack to pick up two sets of mono phono plugs
(earphone,microphone,remote) to build my own Sorcerer dual cassette
cable. Now I remembered that on cassette recorders, the earphone
and the microphone plug are the same size and the remote is smaller.
But I couldn't remember the sizes, so since the saleman was in my face
to help, I ask if he could show me a cassette recorder. I wanted to
compare the size of the jacks to the plugs. He show me several, they
only had earphone jacks. I said don't you have any cassette recorders?
It took him a couple of minutes to find one, but it had no remote jack!!!
All this time, he kept asking "what is it you want to record", and I would
say "computer data". Ten second seconds later he would ask again.
In between he would say "Oh, we would not have anything like that!"
Again I scolded myself for going to Radio Shack without knowing exactly
what I wanted.
So if you have a cassette recorder with a remote jack, hang on to it,
"it's a good thing".
--Doug
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