[Heathkit] alignment of sb-303

[Glen Zook]

I grew up 35-miles from the Heath plant in St. Joseph, Michigan.  As such, there were a lot of amateur radio operators around who worked for Heath.  Probably, the the best example of really weird kit building was when a kit was received for repair with elbow macaroni throughout the wiring.  The repair department just had to know why the elbow macaroni and actually telephoned the kit builder.

His reply was that the instructions said to put spaghetti on the wires.  He looked high and low for spaghetti but could not find any that had a hole in the middle.  So, he used the next best thing, elbow macaroni!
 
Glen, K9STH


Website:  http://k9sth.com


________________________________
 From: James M. Walker <chejmw at buffalo.edu>
To: heathkit at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] alignment of sb-303
 
Hi Glen,
One of my funniest experiences at the Heathkit store, was a customer
brought his '303 in because it "WOULD NOT" tune. Turned out he
applied glue to all the slugs during assembly to "keep them from
falling out of the coil forms", The Manager gave him an assembled
SB-303, and suggested he Not try building KITS!!

Sigh, I did a lot more Laughing back then!