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In article <aaaBUBA5n6XxEwGR@nick01.demon.co.uk>, Nick de Smith
<nick@nick01.demon.co.uk> writes

>In article <on2+FbAYJsXxEwiy@wookie.demon.co.uk>, John Beardmore
><wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Personally I'd just discharge it with a grounded screwdriver popked
>>under the EHT connection on the side of the tube, but if you havn't
>>spent your teens spraying water into the back of valve televisions
>>( after converting them to ociloscopes ), it may well be best to find an
>>expert.
>
>Good advice - Interesting that others spent their teens converting TVs
>into extremely poor oscilloscopes -

That soon got dull !

My taste in computer generated oddness and wierd lighting / effects
predated rave by decade and a half !  Born at the wrong moment I fear !


> I built my first valve radio aged 8
>(1965) from parts bought from HL Smiths in TCR - the last electronic
>shop I knew of where they had sawdust on the floor. ISTR spending more
>time "chassis-bashing" than using a soldering iron... (muttering of
>"Eeeee, when I were a lad we 'ad it tough...").

That's true today if you actually build cases for the stuff you make.

Sice the cat threw up in one our ATs, I've taken more care.


> You always knew when
>something was broken when it either didn't light up at all, or caught
>fire.

Switch mode PSUs continue that fine tradition...


>When OC[P]71s became readily available, it took all the fun out of it.
>
>Nick (who still has a load of ECC82s and 100V line output transformers
>etc. somewhere, not to mention a 3KW linear...).

3 kW linear watt ?


J/.
-- 
John Beardmore