[Amps] Fleamarkets

[david sutton]

ToDay the help offer would probably be " Us a larger fuse or goto WM and get a roll of foil " to many times in the past i have radio's on the bench and checked the fuse holder just to find a foil wraped glass fuse, :-0
Dave
 
Brits with a southern call? how strange, only when you hear the accent.
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From: Dr. David Kirkby <david.kirkby at onetel.net>
To: david sutton <sootydave at yahoo.com>
Cc: amps contesting <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 12:00:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Fleamarkets

david sutton wrote:
> All very true statments.
> You see it on the amateur radio groups all the time. most on this group will agree i'm sure,  Just reading posts from some ham's makes my skine cringe. The comment Dave G0OIL made about Dayton and the vacume capacitors he was carying. unfortunatley nowa days you don't need to know what a risistor or Cap looks like you just got to be able to remember what the right answer is to the question.

As a school kid, I used to work in Tandy, before I went of to do an EE degree. I recall one guy coming in to by some fuses - we sold them in packs of 3. A few days later, he come back, and bought some more identical fuses. Then another few days passes, and he comes back and buys more identical fuses.

After this had happened 3 or 4 times, I asked him what he was doing with them. He told me that he fits them in his HiFi, but they keep blowing!

Dave