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Re: Drilling through a magnet?
Ed,
If I had to make a defintion of "old" then it would at least be anything manufactured before I was born. I could concede anything with hollow state devices, so that could get you into the sixties for some items and maybe include Don at the same time. I have had the chance to work on some antiques in my time. Some were fun to restore, others were a tribute to the bad radio/TV shop techs of the early fifties. I hate coming behind someone else and trying to fix their attempts at repairs. Don will like this one. I had a friend who inherited a Heathkit from a deceased friend. It was a "Cheyenne" transmitter that the owner was modifying into some kind of exciter. There was a mod article in 73 I think way back when. My friend wanted me to return it to working order as a simple transmitter. It did AM or CW and was screen modulated. Things were so convoluted that I had to rip it all out and start over. Luckily I had the original manual. It was a multimonth project but I did get it working. When you run transceivers all the time it is hard to remember what the "spot" switch is and how to use it. The kit came out in the days before injection molded plastic knobs. All the knobs were aluminum and when you had a little RF on the chassis, you knew about it immediately. I don't think my friend ever put it on the air.
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Al
WB9UVJ
www.wildstang.org
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Storming the Tower since 1996.
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