[Heathkit] shipping amp

[rbethman]

Barry,

What is worse, <Shame on me!>, I built an SB-201 while over there in the 
same time frame.

I stuffed mine with bubble wrap to protect the 572Bs.  (To prep for 
shipment in household goods.)

In haste to get my station up, I repeated Sheila's antics!

Dummy me spent hours cleaning the 572Bs!

One would "think" that I would have remembered what she told all of us 
at the Amateur Radio club at Yongsan.

So much for keeping one's head screwed on properly........

Bob - N0DGN

On 4/11/2012 10:40 AM, foxbw at comcast.net wrote:
> I had to laugh about the school teacher who melted the bubble wrap around the tubes.  When I was in the Air Force back in the 60s, we received a  brand new Collinss 30L-1 linear at the MARS station.  Myself and the other ham eagerly took it out of its box, plugged it in and watched in horror as clouds of smoke roiled out of the cabinet.  Seems Collins wrapped the 811s in cardboard sleeves, which of course we were in too much of a hurry to notice.  No damage done fortunately and the amp worked FB.
>
> Barry - W1HFN