[R-390] 3TF7

[Barry Hauser]

Les wrote:
> 27 cases of 500 3TF7 tubes in each case........hoping to hear from the man
in
> the moon.
>

"Houston .... Houston ... we have a problem.  Turns out they're 3TF4's, not
3TF7's."

Houston: "Holy smokes!!!!  Don't let Congress get wind of this.  They'll cut
us off.  And get that Locklear guy on the phone!"   ..... any 26Z5W's?
1L6's?  I'll settle for a matched pair of 6V6's."

Meanwhile, on the dark side of the moon, the K-Paxians have stumbled across
the real 3TF7's.  "Commander Zorch, these must be part of some kind of
weapon."

"Ah, yes, an incendiary grenade of a type our forefathers used.  You see
Ensign Flot, the launcher applies a current to the iron wire filament until
it glows.  Then, it's launched, hits the target, the hydrogen mixes with
oxygen and the glowing filament sets it off -- K-POW (K-Paxian for kapow).
Don't know why they brought them to the moon -- no air.  We used battle
tubes like these for many eons, but then the price shot up.  Imagine --
about 45 K-Bux a pop!"

"Wow, Commander, what happened then?"

"Well, Ensign, that fostered development of the handheld particle beam
weapons we pack today -- they use 12BA6's -- much cheaper."

"But, why are there no more iron-hydrogen battle tubes on K-Pax?

"A small band of K-Paxian zealots made off with the remaining supply and
migrated to Earth -- the Amperites, I think they called themselves.  Look,
it even says so right on the tubes."

"Look Commander, they misspelled "battle" as "ballast".  Do we really need
to know any more about these Earthlings?"

"Not really, let's beam back in time for lunch."

Barry