[Boatanchors] Boatanchor folks: See?

Tue Dec 18 17:55:45 EST 2012

And I wonder just how many on this list know who Fermi was? Especially those 
in Chicago?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond Cote" <bluegrassdakine at hotmail.com>
To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
Cc: "Boat Anchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "Ken Kaplan" 
<krkaplan at cox.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Boatanchor folks: See?

> Nice story Duane. I can relate to it with some antics of my own. He he
>
>
> Before I came here I was confused about this subject.  Having listened to 
> your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.
> Enrico Fermi
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2012, at 14:59, "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> A true tale -
>>
>> My mother was born and grew up in a small town in northeastern South 
>> Dakota named Pierpont. Her brother, my uncle, absolutely hated fireworks. 
>> In SD class C fireworks were legal for ten days up, and including, July 
>> fourth.
>>
>> My uncle farmed, but prior to that he had been on the Baltimore Orioles 
>> roster as a 'closing' or 'middle relief' left handed pitcher. His name? 
>> Some will remember Darryl Johnson.
>>
>> I had a lot of talent and He got me a spring tryout with the Orioles AAA 
>> farm club, the Aberdeen Pheasants. They played in Aberdeen, SD for their 
>> home games. I was very excited about being given at least a chance. I was 
>> not a pitcher, rather a centerfielder.
>>
>> Now my five years younger brother saw uncle Darryl walking toward his 
>> pickup truck, and us! Bob had seen somebody light and throw a firecracker 
>> on the ground near us. It never went off. Poor Robert had just picked it 
>> up when he saw his uncle come out of the drug store and walk toward him! 
>> He panicked and stuck the firecracker
>> in the right hand front pocket of his Wrangler jeans. We all got into the 
>> pickup truck and uncle Darryl started to drive down main street. All of a 
>> sudden ... KABOOM! That firecracker in Bob's pocket exploded! Uncle 
>> Daryll jumped a foot and probably had to change his Fruit Of The Looms 
>> briefs when he got back to the farm!
>>
>> My little brother turned more pale than Casper The Friendly Ghost! More 
>> from the terror of Uncle Darryl getting angry than the firecracker 
>> exploding in his right front pocket!
>>
>> Everybody got out of the truck and uncle Darryl looked at little Robert's 
>> jeans. There was a hole in the pocket that looked like someone had peeled 
>> a banana! There was a little puff of smoke coming from that hole every 
>> now and then! Uncle Darryl had Bob drop his jeans and looked at his leg. 
>> Hey! Pierpont only had a population of a thousand and whomever counted 
>> the population for the census must have counted chickens, hogs, horses 
>> and cattle along with people living in farms outside the city limits to 
>> get a population of a thousand!
>>
>> It was bruised and already turning black and blue! Some skin abrasions 
>> too. Nothing serious, fortunately! That firecracker exploded only about 
>> one inch from little Robert's right testicle! My little brother almost 
>> never had a chance for a low voice or children one day down the road!
>>
>> I will never ever forget that image of Bob standing there looking both 
>> sheepish and terror stricken with that banana peeling like hole in those 
>> jeans and smoke coming out around his ankle! Did that stop my little 
>> brother from playing with fireworks? Heck no! Well, at least not until 
>> his eighth grade Health teacher explained what a testicle was!
>>
>> - Original Message ----- From: "Ken Kaplan" <krkaplan at cox.net>
>> To: "Boat Anchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:05 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Boatanchor folks: See?
>>
>>
>>> Um Duane, don't forget the fuse if it's still left after that Black Cat!
>>>
>>> On 12/17/2012 10:54 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>>>> As I recall from my middle teenage years, a well positioned Black Cat
>>>> 1.5 inch firecracker worked very well when it came to the extraction of
>>>> hard to get at capacitors or resistors. Since the extracted item was in
>>>> a multitude of pieces, trying to test it for value, voltage handling
>>>> etc. was rather futile! Play it safe, replace all of them! Then if the
>>>> unit fails to work, you know it is due to a shorting power cord, as 
>>>> that
>>>> is all that remains that you have niether tested and/or replaced!
>>>
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