A trip down memory lane

[Phil]

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.

Phil M1GWZ

*Thank goodness I didn’t mention elements of atomic number 50 or especially 82.


> On 9 Dec 2016, at 19:26, RICHARD BARTH <w3hwn at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I too have boxes of little plastic things with pins sticking out of them. Most were original issue; I bought them new.
> 
> Also have little pieces of fiber with small holes iin them, that many today would not recognize. They can indeed
> 
> prove very useful, and their use involves a lot less eyestrain than would result from fiddling with SMDs.
> 

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