[Boatanchors] Kit Horror Stories / WRL Screen Modulator

[Joe Foley]

I've still got mine!  Bought it with paper route
money,.... only because my brothers had all of the
muskrat traps.

Joe



--- Philip Atchley <k06bb@elite.net> wrote:
> 
> > as it was my first kit I didn't have a lot of
> tools or even a soldering
> > iron.  When I pointed this out to my parents they
> bought me a pair of
> > longnose pliers (still have em), dykes,
> screwdrivers etc.  No soldering
> > iron as they were afraid I'd "burn the house down"
> I guess.
> 
> As an aside, my folks bought me one of the small
> (100W?) Wen soldering guns
> for Christmas that year.  I guess they figured that
> I'd "stuck" with
> building that kit and could be trusted not to "Burn
> the house down" and it
> was only hot while you squeezed the trigger.  I used
> that little gun for
> many many years.  In fact, I think I had it right up
> to the time I joined
> the USAF but it's anybody's guess what happened to
> it.  After using that gun
> for so many years, using Weller guns in the service
> with their odd shapped
> tips seemed awkward to me.  Besides, if your "last
> tip" burned through in
> the middle of a project you could use a piece of
> solid 14ga wire.
> 
> 73 de Phil  KO6BB
> 
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