Solderin's a skill that'll take you places

went the tales of housewives building their own color Tee Vee sets, then using setup controls.. successfully! I've seen a couple of those, too - textbook clean solder joints. (Page 1 was a short course with a small scrap board, wires - to practice on.) Women (Rosie Riveter) demonstrated their superiority in much meticulous assembly work - with far fewer errors than ever-distracted males.

So we sent them home with a company apron; after they had wired all those B-17 instrument panels. Patriarchies are so habitually dense.

'Course most Heaths were built by men (and their kids!) - a natural process for culling, IDing future engineers. All such talents are soo unnecessary for learning the TLA bafflegab of the smarmy Re-marketing 'Economy'.

(Kinda surprised how few here! would dare even just to tack-solder a wire from Point A to Point B, on occasion.)

Fewer and fewer left, even to remark on the passing of the once-functioning USA.
What a puerile culture as worships dumbth - and doesn't even remember when it didn't.

That's not even 'going out with a whimper'! That's going OUT while thinking it's the IN door. Assholes; give apes a bad name.

Post #230,721 by tuberculosis 10/24/05 7:15:49 PM Reply	Solderin's a skill that'll take you places In my case, bein' a budget minded guitar man who made his own cables lead to college radio station engineer and later on commercial broadcast tech. And, BTW, the coax for your average broadcast FM antenna is a bitch to put connections on as the shield is a corrugated copper tube that needs cutting with a hacksaw and you need a sizeable iron to heat it up enough to get a good joint. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #230,739 by Ashton 10/24/05 9:48:50 PM Reply	With the loss of 'Heathkit' went the tales of housewives building their own color Tee Vee sets, then using setup controls.. successfully! I've seen a couple of those, too - textbook clean solder joints. (Page 1 was a short course with a small scrap board, wires - to practice on.) Women (Rosie Riveter) demonstrated their superiority in much meticulous assembly work - with far fewer errors than ever-distracted males. So we sent them home with a company apron; after they had wired all those B-17 instrument panels. Patriarchies are so habitually dense. 'Course most Heaths were built by men (and their kids!) - a natural process for culling, IDing future engineers. All such talents are soo unnecessary for learning the TLA bafflegab of the smarmy Re-marketing 'Economy'. (Kinda surprised how few here! would dare even just to tack-solder a wire from Point A to Point B, on occasion.) Fewer and fewer left, even to remark on the passing of the once-functioning USA. What a puerile culture as worships dumbth - and doesn't even remember when it didn't. That's not even 'going out with a whimper'! That's going OUT while thinking it's the IN door. Assholes; give apes a bad name.
Post #230,751 by Steve Lowe 10/25/05 1:37:48 AM Reply	I usually got good joints with money, but hey.. if you can get em with a big iron, woohoo! :-) -- Steve [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu]

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