It makes it all so much easier when your wife is Ham, you even get to give your
self a Radio Shack Xmas presents via the YL.
Mike
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-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of R@contesting.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:40 PM
To: TexasRF@aol.com
Cc: AMPS@contesting.com; ka1xo@juno.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Boat-Anchor Cleanliness
On Mar 15, 2006, at 12:53 PM, TexasRF@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hal, I am absolutely in awe of a man having a wife that makes all that
> acceptable. It is a scenario that the rest of us can only fantasize
> about!
ï There are bound to be some out there. Maybe it's time to trade
yours in on a new, lower-maintence model?
>
> 73,
> Gerald K5GW
>
>
>
> In a message dated 3/15/2006 2:43:21 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> ka1xo@juno.com writes:
>
> Dear Chris,
>
> Actually, I have washed dusty, cruddy circuit boards
> in the sink many times. I always finish with an isopropanol scrub and
> a hot blow-dry. The alcohol mixes with the water and evaporates
> without residue.
>
> Hotel room bathrooms and kitchenettes are best for this
> type of renovation. It avoids the inevitable discussion
> and punishment when She Who Must Be Obeyed finds
> a single speck of PCBd. splatter on a mirror or left
> on the porcelain. Further, the hair dryer in electronics assembly
> service is best done when alone and undisturbed.
>
> In 37 years of traveling for business the development of
> ham radio projects has found a time and place without
> the acrimony and subsequent prostrations and begging
> for forgiveness when things like hot blobs of solder happen to land
> on a carpet.
>
> (One would think that such lofty pursuits of knowledge
> would gain acceptance, but no.) A good friend of mine
> was contemplating getting back on HF when SWMBO
> discovered him in the yard with a coil of wire, looking for
> a tie-point. His e-mail to me, complete with the ensuing scenario,
> told of his need to travel for business.
>
> I told him that for most of us, we need to establish a secret room in
> the cellar that only the pooch and we know about, and to wear
> headphones because the female ear is resonant to heterodynes on 40
> meters (Why do you think they named them HETEROdynes? - Duh!) One
> trace of a whistle and they're on the warpath, because we're not
> doing what's on the Current List.
>
> So again, travel has its ups and downs. Ham Radio is mostly tinkering
> and reading at this stage, so getting all this out of the way now
> smooths the relationship as it's out of my blood and I am properly
> comported for Domestic Responsibilities and Assignments Subject to
> Acceptance.
>
> Hal
> W4HBM
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:22:42 -0500 sb200 <sb200@optonline.net>
> writes:
>> You should have told him to use his 4000 psi power washer.
>> Dishwasher. Man O man
>>
>> Chris
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "HAROLD B MANDEL" <ka1xo@juno.com>
>> To: <amps@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:54 PM
>> Subject: [Amps] Boat-Anchor Cleanliness
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 1. Old xfmrs that are not completely potted
>>> will be destroyed in the dishwasher.
>>>
>>> 2. Even PWD's will be destroyed because there
>>> is always one little pinhole in the tar.
>>>
>>> 3. All meters will be destroyed.
>>>
>>> 4. Probably all potentiometers will be
>>> destroyed.
>>>
>>> 5. Aluminum panels that are not coated
>>> will tarnish and spot.
>>>
>>> All chassis renovation needs disassembly
>>> as far as is humanly possible. Most of my
>>> amplifier anchors have gone right down to
>>> bare metal chassis with no hardware
>>> remaining.
>>>
>>> Once there, it's easy to bring the entire
>>> metalwork to the anodizer shop and have
>>> a strip job and a brandy-new layer of
>>> Zinc-DiChromate applied.
>>>
>>> On several occasions I needed to add
>>> and subtract holes. Only then did I
>>> disassemble everything all over again
>>> and bring it to the platers.
>>>
>>> For those who are not inclined, the
>>> "hand-bay carwash" is a good
>>> alternative. Afterward, use the
>>> hair dryer liberally.
>>>
>>> Hal
>>> W4HBM
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>>
>>
>
>
> Harold Mandel
> Superintendent of Construction
> Baran Telecom Inc.
> 606 - 205 - 0172
> hmandel@barantelecom.com
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