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Whatever happened to those soft rubber test leads
Back in the 60's and 70s, test leads were coated with a nice soft rubber, which was thick, had excellent flex, and felt good in the hands. All test leads these days are a plastic material that is...
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Geranium Diode
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If you are a very patriotic American, what resistor will you use?
This is a TRICK Question, Enter the value of that resistor below!
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1/3AA Lithium battery
Hi, I am having difficulty finding a 1/3AA Lithium battery. It is for this application, any substitute has to fit in pretty much the same space as 1/3AA, there is no spare room. I did find...
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0 (ZERO) Ohm Resistors (WTF)........
There are some sellers on ebay who are selling assorted resistors in quantity. Some of them claim these assortments contain 0 ohm resistors.... WTF. Wouldn't that be a piece of wire? What would be the...
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Correct name for Test lead plugs
What is the correct name for the old style test lead plugs that used to be used on older inexpensive VOMs? They were NOT banana plugs. They were thinner. Same size as the test probes, but much...
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What type of capacitor should I use?
What type of capacitor would be the best match to replace the old paper/wax caps in old tube gear? I am not referring to the electrolytics, those I know need to be electrolytic caps. I am referring to...
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Magnavox 1K8870 8 track cassette player/recorder, need owners manual
I had this unit in my basement for I don't remember how many years. An old guy gave it to me. He said that it worked and he thought that I could use i t. So did I. I think that was about 20 years ago....
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Your car computer-hacker Controlled?
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Most common faulty part in old electronic gear
Regarding this kind of switch: When it comes to working on old electronic gear from the 1950s thru 70s or 80s I keep reading the most common fault are the old paper/wax capacitors and electrolytics....
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Capacitors: UF = MFD but what the heck is NF?
40 years ago, back when I did a lot with electronics, capacitors were either F (farads), UF or MFD microfarads, (UF and MFD were the same thing), or PF (Picofarad). Now they are using NF. What the...
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keyboard plastic PCB repair?
Hello folks, did anyone suceeded in repairing traces on that old plastic sheet printed circuits keyboards? Some traces are interrupted and it's impossible to solder on that kind of plastic/trace...
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Mitsubishi HS-M55 - with rods ? ?
Hi everybody Ages ago I bought the Mishibishi HS-M55 to be used for taping music only, a t half speed. I was extremely pleased with the high quality machine. The performance was impeccable and the...
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Thermal pad disintegrating
This is a bit weird. I have an audio power amplifier that uses what looks like strips of pink silicone sheet between the output transistors and the heatsink. But these strips have degenerated and are...
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retiremen tof telco copper
Got a notice about retirement of copper Most important will dialup modems and fax work? A while back almost had to because squirrel ate my line My line comes in from back of house but power from...
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