[Boatanchors] Interesting National Radio info

[John Flood]

Carl,

You reminded me of my my tricks when I was a service tech.  I used the air gun to launch single ended Q-Tips.  This of course lead to launching ones soaked in blazing alchol at night.  We worked in electro-optics and one day one of the guys "found" a pile of little plastic viewfinders with slides of naked women.  These were quickly disassembled and made way in to the optical clusters of many units during assembly to wind up the QC manager.  I was also fond of the 1 - 10 ohm resistors in the power strips on benches...  We had homemade soldering iron savers that put a bulb in series with the element when you put it in the tray.  A hoard of BIG old time flash bulbs made it's way to us and that of course requred the odd holder to get rewired when no one was looking.  Then when you picked up your Iron  POOF.  Some one did it to me and the plan backfired  It was a rough morning from the previous nigts conquests.and after a while, the president of the company
 walked in to our shop.  So to look busy I reached for the iron.  I didn't understand the look of panic on the faces of the guys till we were all blinded breifly.  The pres shook his head and left.  I'm sure you have many of these type of stories Carl.  I could go on for ages.  Perhaps we should publish them.

but first   ....  one more....  One of the guys wanted a descented skunk as a pet.  I happened to know a girl who had one (started hosstrading at an early age so I did).  I picked it up in a box and had it under the bench.  The skunk chewed through the box right where there was a hole in the wall that allowed heat to flow into engineering.  The skunk apeared under the desk of one the engineers who let out a scream.  He just went right home.  We were convinced he had wet his pants and he did not come back till the next day.  (Right now Carl, I'm crying and nearly wetting my pants).  The other Tech and I ran around the corner, we ran, but it all seemed like slow motion as the friendly skunk went down the hall into the administrative "pool" area.  The cries of the four women there must have startled the critter as he came out at a goood clip and saw us running(still in slow motion) his way.  He turned right into the presidents office before we could catch
 him and the roar he let out caused the friendly but confused pet skunk to lift his tail.  Thankfully we knew the defensive weapons were removed but the president didn't.  The clatter of noise and string of off colour words we heard was the president diving under his desk.  After he composed him self and asked about the location of the missing engieer, we were read the riot act and said the only reason we were not let go was he did not want to have to go and protest our unemployment claim and have to have this story made public record.  Boy I do miss my days as a tech.......but think that I just may have killed any future prospects of employment from anyone here on the list.

John Flood
KB1FQG

----- Original Message ----
From: jeremy-ca <km1h at jeremy.mv.com>
To: John Flood <kb1fqg at yahoo.com>; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 6:11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Interesting National Radio info

Very interesting John. I remember many of those names as they were still 
there when I arrived in 1963. Others I completely forgot about, thanks for 
the memory boost.

Many of those fine looking softball team girs were still there also but as 
grandmothers!

I had a fresh young crop to chase but as another coworker with similar 
interests stated they were all "nesters" which completely scared him off. 
Several got real upset when I later married outside of the "family".

When I was in the Service Dept my bench was at the 3rd floor window with the 
pole and transformer outside. In the summer with the windows open I used the 
air blow gun and a plastic tube with BB's to knock squirrels off the pole.

Carl
KM1H


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