26 Jul
2012
26 Jul
'12
4:53 p.m.
On 26 Jul 2012 at 20:16, Tony Duell wrote:
Often caleld 'body-tip-spot' over here. And
yes I rememebr them. Heck,
I still have some. The other day I came across 3 disks of cardboard of
difiference sizes joined with an eyelet at the centre. They're colour
printed, each colour sector having a digit or a string of 0's in it as
ppropraite, they're labelled 'body, tip, spot'. You line up the
apporpriate colours and read off the value. My father had this thing
in the 1950s.
I'll confess that I'd have to run for a book for 5- and 6-spot mica
condensors/capacitors. Same goes for silvered mica.
I received an email from IBM this morning that advertised
"Multicore". I thought that it had something to do with a brand of
solder...
--Chuck