I think I have 5 analog AVO meters in total. The oldest is dated 1943 and still works wonderfully well. The detents in the dials are still as sharp and tight as the day it was made; no backlash at all. How they were able to turn out that kind of quality at the height of the Second WW is quite extraordinary.
Turned up trumps again today. Checking the DC tuning voltage to a VCO. It was supposed to ramp up from 2.5V to 10V reset and repeat over a 3 second cycle continuously. A DVM failed to reveal this control voltage was misbehaving badly, but it was *immediately* apparent with an analog meter. Sometimes, you just can't beat 'em.
Nice, I'm happy mine's working pretty well now.
I think I'll hold onto it to barter for a Cadillac with once Trump's finished turning dollars to toilet paper..
That was going on *way* before Trump even considered a career in politics and it was in fact Nixon who sowed the seeds of baked-in inflation going forward back in 1971 when the fixed link to the gold price was abolished. Since then, the dollar's lost more than 97% of its value.
I've heard you can now get toilet paper printed with trump's picture. (Country of origin unknown - but the list of possibles is getting longer by the day.)
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