[Boatanchors] 2013 myth

[Rob Atkinson]

I know what you mean.  A few tools help.  Pickup one of those 5x
magnifier visors if you can't focus your eyes in close.  get a few
different types of needle nose pliers and varying size diagonal
clippers.
Saw this in a hint and kink in an old QST:  Fashion some little lead
handles by taking alligator clips and attaching stiff wire handles to
them so you can poke them into a tight space to hold two leads
together for soldering.

Don't worry about some perfectionist with his nose in the air--go
ahead and clip out old caps and use the left over leads in the rig to
attach the new ones to, by taking the new cap leads and wrapping them
around jeweler screwdriver shafts to make quiggs then push the quigs
on to the left over lead fragments still in the rig and solder.  It
works and once the set is all put back together and running who
cares--tell the anal retentive types to get a new hobby.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 11:43 PM, HL <zbyte at comcast.net> wrote:
>  I, too, often do not have the energy or dexterity to replace old caps in tight, crowded chassis situations.