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TerraHertz:
When you find your old Tanelorn music festival (1981) t-shirt in a drawer, and it's now far too small to fit.



--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on June 16, 2021, 07:09:59 am ---...  the revision mirror.  ;D

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The mirror for hindsight and correcting past mistakes?  I wish I had one.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on June 16, 2021, 02:49:18 am ---Do you mean a clothes iron with a cavity on top for hot charcoal, or a soldering iron?"

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Clothes iron.


--- Quote ---My bro made a great little regenerative HF radio using a small "plumber's iron" stuck in the firebox of a "Metter's No2" stove for all the soldering work.

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Impressive. My first soldering iron, which I still have and still works, is rated at 60W. It's a monster compared to this modern day pencil size "rubbish".
Quarlo Klobrigney:
Bakelite, the new shiny thing will replace EVERYTHING! :clap:
David Hess:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on June 15, 2021, 11:29:18 pm ---The VW started impeccably every morning, the heater worked spectacularly well (another failing of the Ford), & left me with a very good impression.
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I also have fond memories of the air cooled aspects of the VW bug.  They would be considered terribly underpowered and unsafe today though.
harerod:
Gyro, I love your account on manual chokes.
Well, chokes on car engines are a thing of the past. My more recent experience with chokes are with several carburetor aircraft engines. Your list mostly still applies to those kind of engines, with the added pleasure of cranking the propeller by hand, after the battery went flat.
Air cooled engines, say Australian Jabiru, are still a thing with light aircraft. Nice engines, until you stall one after a long final on low throttle, when apply power too quickly to a cooled down engine. Very vivid memory from an early training flight.

How can you tell that your aircraft is old? A radio key has been taped to the control horn sometime in the 1970s...

How can you tell that you are an old engineer? You get paid for teaching people with masters and doctors in electronics about "Fourier transform"...
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