Loved the skier.. down a delay-line IIRC !!

The little rolls of, technically "3% silver-bearing", not really silver-solder - so as not to cause the 'fritted silver' on the strips to come loose with repeated tin-lead soldering. Perfectionist stuff, and on its own white ceramic-like bobbin!

But what the New-Tek is like:

I burned up the First e- thing ever (well, almost) on a #$*#@% 2430 digital scope: seems that it May Not be operated out of the case w/o "an additional air supply". Now there were labels of usual dummy kind.. CAUTION Glass CRT under high vacuum and the like.. but only (later when it came) in the manual ~ p.45 was a little note about this peculiarity. And NO LABEL inside the case. D'Oh.

Really pissed me off because I was able to cure an error message about a particular part by forcing a re-cal; scope would have been OK. But then I recalled..





in space, nobody can hear you scream..


Grumble, piss, moan