RJ11 Jack, Panel-mount, ROUND HOLE

Jim Thompson Inscribed thus:

You laugh all you want ! I've done similar where the scan coil connector has burnt holes in the PCB because of bad solder joints. Cut away the burnt area and used Araldite to fill the hole sandwiched between strips of wax paper. Replace the connector and use copper wire the re-establish the connections.

Fiberglass (FRP) burn holes are trickier. I once glass-bead-blasted a dead 'un to get rid of the char, then applied Q-dope to the mat of glass fibers. It nearly looked good when it was all done, and my trusty old Buick got a Mark X electronic ignition for nearly free. I recall that as the last time I used Germanium transistors from my junk box.

Good point, if you were making a 1960's TV ;)

I find score and snap to size a convenience 'feature'.

Don't drill that close.

It's also more expensive, which is fine if cost is no object.

My Dad's trucks featured a sign, "We Don't Service Muntz" ;-) ...Jim Thompson

LOL

Well, they didn't call him "Madman" Muntz for nothing, you know.

He serviced them for awhile. Then customers started complaining that my Dad did poor service... as soon as the tubes aged, the reception degenerated. So he dumped Muntz altogether.

Not that it mattered. Though he was located in Huntington, WV, he became the largest RCA dealer on the east coast for many years. He even played golf with David Sarnoff on a regular basis. (Met him on the Greenbrier golf course at White Sulphur Springs, WV, and they hit it right off. My father was consistently a par player (*)... even into his 80's :-)

(*) With five holes-in-one to his credit... Spring Valley and Guyandotte Country Clubs. Died in 2008 at age 90. ...Jim Thompson

Yeah, I knew exactly what his sign meant and why. Muntz TV sets had barely enough parts to work at all, which is why they were uber cheap.

"There's something about a Muntz." You be there was; it's only one step above junk.

Above?

What's real fun is cutting away a burnt spot on a wafer on a rotary switch, and patching it without changing the alignment of the contacts. :) I did that to an old RCA VTVM back in the mid '70s.

Sure. Out of the box they usually worked for 'some' period of time. That's a bit better than junk.

I never saw on 'just out of the box'. Like Packard Bell, we didn't see them in our area till they WERE junk.

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Well, just about everything ends up there sooner or later but Muntz TVs started off closer to the heap.

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I only saw one of them, but that was enough. It looked like it was built from pre W.W. II surplus.

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Could be, I suppose, but WWII surplus seems a lot more likely as the country was darn near swimming in the stuff there for a while.

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Let's just say I received better quality surplus components by the pound from PolyPaks, Meshna and other places in the early '70s.

Well, shoot, by the early/mid 70's you'd have been looking at 15 year old sets, at least, since 1959 was the last year of production.

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There sure was a lot of it. An uncle of mine built a logging equipment business by converting WWII surplus half tracks into cherry pickers and log haulers.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Told you when it was the hook thing. Nibbler! Specifically "Adel hand nibbler".

You may not believe this, but "nibbler" is the answer to at least 70% of the questions you've posted in the past year :-).

Tim.