According to Joseph Gwinn :
In article ,
(DoN. Nichols) wrote:
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Or -- unless I'm carrying the coil and needle assembly to
elsewhere, to get other tools for adjusting the spring which I had just
soldered on, and the spring separated from my solder joint somewhere
over a *very* cluttered shop floor.
So -- on to the spare-parts machine on eBay. :-(
The alternative is to find another meter to act as a spring
donor.
Damn!
Well ... I just won the spare parts one on eBay for $24.95. As
I expected, there were no other bidders, given the *obviously* missing
parts.
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Good plan, though I had not done any filings generating work on
that bench. There is a shear on it, and a corner notching shear, and a
reloading press, none of which tend to generate filings.
But they do generate slivers.
Yes -- but have mostly been used on aluminum, which at least
tends to generate non-magnetic slivers. :-)
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A new retirement business - fixing meter movements. Then, move up to
crashed disk drives.
I've obviously got to get better at it, first. :-)
Well, use a carrying pan. I go to yard sales and the like, and get old
stainless steel cookware for use in the shop: they make good parts
trays, and are solvent-proof.
Yes -- I had thought that the hairspring was firmly soldered to
the coil, so I wasn't worried. *wrong*!. :-(
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Exactly. It was mostly the same people working on both, at least the
MIT crowd. Edgerton was a MIT professor.
But this was an army lab, working only with optical stuff,
including the lasers as long-distance illuminators. No RADAR stuff
there.
Where was this?
U.S. Army Night Vision Labs (at that time -- it has since gone
through quite a few name changes -- once three in a single year. :-)
Location was (and still is Ft. Belvoir, VA.)
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Nope -- but I did (on a bet) cut a power cord with a pair of
diagonal pliers without insulating gloves. I just made sure to specify
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The classic dodge is to nip the power cord halfway, cutting one wire at
a time. Easy with flat cable, harder with round cable, but not
impossible. But I assume that the point of the bet was to make a big
bang and yet survive to collect.
Of course. :-) It was a length of zip cord -- the cord for one
of the early Ungar soldering irons, IIRC -- the ones with the screw-in
heating elements, instead of the later ones which plug-in elements.
I gather you won the bet.
Yes.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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