[SOC] A Salt and Battery

[Paul Bartlett]

     Hi All,

      This made me laugh.

      Just about my first job in electronics was working for a company
making burglar alarms in the early seventies when I was about 16.

      Part of the job involved etching PCBs and I had to make up the
etchant.

      We had bags of ferric chloride crystals but they tended to clump so I
used an old HP12 battery (12V primary battery about the size of a large
brick) as a hammer to smash up the bigger bits.

      The senior engineer wandered past whilst I was doing this and simply
commented, "Watch it or you'll find yourself in court for "Assault and
battery"."

      Paul ;-)











----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian C. Purdie" <ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au>
To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 3:26 AM
Subject: Re: [SOC] A Salt and Battery


> "Reicher, James" wrote:
>
> > A couple lived near the ocean and used to walk the beach a lot.
>
> So do Carolyn and I, well, sometimes.
>
> > "Yes," he replied, "She sells C cells by the sea shore."
>
> That was real corny...
>
> Erf, erf...
>
> Ian
>
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