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"Jeff R." wrote:

"John Husvar" wrote in message
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In article ,
Don Foreman wrote:

On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:30:33 +0800, David R Brooks
wrote:

Tom Schlangen wrote:
Now watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_eLO0exato

And another home-built triode (actually a small production batch),
applied to amateur radio:

http://dailymotion.alice.it:80/video...-lampe-triode_
tec
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[Some heavier metalworking at the end...]

Tres neat!

Vraiment un homme avec trop de temps sur les mains.

Non!
Avez-vous le voir perdre du temps sur Usenet?

Oui. Certenment vous avez raison! Comme maintenant, par example?

And that's about as far as I can get nowadays.

High school and college were way too long ago. Use it or lose it is
certainly true. Sic transit four years of straight "A's!"