2 Aug
2000
2 Aug
'00
1:06 p.m.
"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
===================================================
Doug Coward dcoward(a)pressstart.com (work)
Sr Software Engineer mranalog(a)home.com (home)
Press Start Inc. http://www.pressstart.com
Sunnyvale,CA
Visit the new Analog Computer Museum and History Center
at http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog
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2 Aug
2 Aug
1:27 p.m.
"Doug Coward" <dcoward(a)pressstart.com> wrote:
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??
No, it has a freely-rotating end piece, like jeweler's screwdrivers. It
has no unwrapping feature. However, it's so much more pleasant to use
than the typical double-ended hand tool that I use the latter *only* for
unwrapping.
2:01 p.m.
Try unwrapping with it. Perhaps you'll be surprised!
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Radio Shack Wire-Wrapping Tool
"Doug Coward" <dcoward(a)pressstart.com>
wrote:
> 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??
No, it has a freely-rotating end piece, like jeweler's screwdrivers. It
has no unwrapping feature. However, it's so much more pleasant to use
than the typical double-ended hand tool that I use the latter *only* for
unwrapping.
4:19 p.m.
Hi
Mine doesn't work as an unwrapper like the little blue ones
do. I prefer the wire stripper in the blue ones over the
jeweler's screwdriver type stripper. The best stripper
I've used was one that looks a little like a pair of pliers
with while plactic boxes on the end.
Dwight
"Richard Erlacher" <richard(a)idcomm.com> wrote:
Try unwrapping with it. Perhaps you'll be
surprised!
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Radio Shack Wire-Wrapping Tool
"Doug Coward"
<dcoward(a)pressstart.com> wrote:
> 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??
>
> No, it has a freely-rotating end piece, like jeweler's screwdrivers. It
> has no unwrapping feature. However, it's so much more pleasant to use
> than the typical double-ended hand tool that I use the latter *only* for
> unwrapping.
>
>
5:53 p.m.
Do you suppose they've changed the way they make this type of tool? I've
had mine for about 15 years, and they've always worked fine for both
wrapping and unwrapping. Those blue (or red) anodized hex-shaped ones are
identical to the ones made by OK Tool, which work OK too, but given the
choice, I'd use the RS (silver) with the swivel cap like a jeweler's
screwdriver every time. I had three of them right up to the time my elder
son and his buddy used two of them to wire up blinkenlights for their
gloves. (whatever that was for) Since then I've had only one.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Dwight Elvey <elvey(a)hal.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 7:19 PM
Subject: Re[2]: Radio Shack Wire-Wrapping Tool
Hi
Mine doesn't work as an unwrapper like the little blue ones
do. I prefer the wire stripper in the blue ones over the
jeweler's screwdriver type stripper. The best stripper
I've used was one that looks a little like a pair of pliers
with while plactic boxes on the end.
Dwight
"Richard Erlacher" <richard(a)idcomm.com> wrote:
> Try unwrapping with it. Perhaps you'll be surprised!
>
> Dick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 4:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Radio Shack Wire-Wrapping Tool
>
>
> > "Doug Coward" <dcoward(a)pressstart.com> wrote:
> > > 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??
> >
> > No, it has a freely-rotating end piece, like jeweler's screwdrivers.
It
> > has no unwrapping feature. However,
it's so much more pleasant to use
> > than the typical double-ended hand tool that I use the latter *only*
for
>
unwrapping.
>
>
1:39 p.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
===================================================
Doug Coward dcoward(a)pressstart.com (work)
Sr Software Engineer mranalog(a)home.com (home)
Press Start Inc. http://www.pressstart.com
Sunnyvale,CA
Visit the new Analog Computer Museum and History Center
at http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog
===================================================
8:02 p.m.
Hello Doug
On 02-Aug-00, you wrote:
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
Typical Radio Shack salesman, overworked at minimum wage and minimum
intellegence about electronics. I was in a Radio Shack twice recent'y, and
they can't even tell you prices of some of the stuff on the shelves.
Here in St. Joseph we call them the trash shack or the outhouse, because
they are usually out of what you want.
Regards
--
Gary Hildebrand
ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
3 Aug
3 Aug
4:31 p.m.
Here in St. Joseph we call them the trash shack or the
outhouse, because
they are usually out of what you want.
Ha! Try Fry's... The one here in Oregon
is terrible. Since the day
they opened, they have NEVER fully stocked the electronic components!
They work damned hard to make sure they have enough TVs and stereos,
but screw the nerds... And of course, the items I need are always the
missing ones.
I don't mind Radio Shack all that much, but I'd rather order through
a catalog were I can get things for half the price(most of the time).
Still hasn't stopped me from spending WAY too much there :-) And you
have to admit that it's nice having stores all over the place that
sell scanners. Just stay away from the ham radio equipment(the HTX-10
and mobile 2m are OK, but avoid the handhelds radios at all costs!
inferior and WAY overpriced).
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