<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Apart from significant quantities of drawn low-melting-point bi-metallic eutectic* to ‘stick’ plastic things together, I also keep quantities of plastic-covered stranded metals which I find work as navigational aids for wandering electrons, and sometimes to join collections of plastic parts on synthetic resin-bonded paper to old-fashioned manual effectors.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Phil M1GWZ</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*Thank goodness I didn’t mention elements of atomic number 50 or especially 82.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Dec 2016, at 19:26, RICHARD BARTH <<a href="mailto:w3hwn@comcast.net" class="">w3hwn@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">I too have boxes of little plastic things with pins sticking out of them. Most were original issue; I bought them new.</p><p class="">Also have little pieces of fiber with small holes iin them, that many today would not recognize. They can indeed</p><p class="">prove very useful, and their use involves a lot less eyestrain than would result from fiddling with SMDs.</p></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>