2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
3:21 p.m.
On Thursday 02 February 2006 06:17 pm, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Yeah.
>What sort
of kits are they offering? I might be tempted for those
> situations where just having a board is nice, as opposed to going the
> perfboard route...
I suspect you mean "PC board" :-(. Try building a radio on a breadboard! Screw down the
transformers, octal
sockets, etc., just like they did 50 years ago.
Hey, I *have* some octal sockets, anyhow, and even some of those that are
for the older tubes, too. No tubes, though.
Alternatively, a lot of really good radios are built
on nothing but
solid unetched PC board (as a ground plane) using "dead bug" construction.
Point-to-point with a ground plane. I haven't tried it yet.
Or hacked-into-squares-of-conductor board using
"Manhattan" construction.
It's a true art form - and actually extremely sturdy.
Yeah, but not too terribly repairable.
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