[R-390] Re: Ballast Tube Thread

[Tom Norris]

Well, you were lucky to have sand! Back in my day
we carved our ballast tubes out of wood. We used
them and were proud of them, because that's all
we had!

Was it uphill both ways to get the sand?

T

>Well, I can remember when we couldn't get any ballast tubes so
>we would go down to the beach and collect the finest sand we
>could find and mix it with ground up 50 ohm carbon composition
>resistors and some epoxy.
>
>We would then pour this slurry mixture into these small glass
>tubes we'd get from the medics, stick a lead from the ground up
>resistors in to each end, and bake them in an oven for 6 hours.
>
>
>When we got done with that we had 48 ohm resistors that we
>would use to replace the unavailable ballasts. I don't know why
>we didn't just use 48ohm resistors because we had them in
>stock.
>
>But then I wouldn't have thought up this BS story to kick over
>some bees hives and start some crap........ HEH, HEH, HEH!!!
>
>I mean and tired after a long hot 4th of July Parade that's my
>story and I'm sticking to it..........
>RICH  WA6KNW
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