On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:24:13 -0500, "Martin Riddle"
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"Jim Thompson" wrote in
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On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:51:45 -0600, John Fields
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On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:09:12 -0800, Fred Abse
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On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:05:02 -0600, John Fields wrote:
On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:05:45 -0800, Fred Abse
wrote:
KERRIST!
That carpet's clean. How to you get the entangled wire offcuts out?
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What are "offcuts"?
JF
You joshing me?
Bits of wire trimmed off components that seem to get everywhere.
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I mostly work barefoot and in PJ's, so I'm careful about what falls on
the floor.
JF
I often work in just my socks, but regular clothes :-) I meticulously
save any clips of consequential length (and the Teflon wire scraps),
to use as jumpers on my bread-boarding system:
http://analog-innovations.com/SED/BreadBoard.jpg
...Jim Thompson
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Being a Spice guy, I wouldn't have thought you did much bread boarding.
Not for chip designs... for my "G-jobs"... I tinker a lot with
home-brew gadgets, like aircraft noise trackers, school bus
annunciators, light controls via the street light sensor, etc ;-)
If anyone knows a good source for those double sided perf boards (power
planes top/bottom and isolated holes, like Jim's pic, over the entire
board), anti up. Those seem to be hard to find at a good price. perfect
for wirewraping.
I laid that out myself while I was at GenRad, to ease bread-boarding
of analog I/C's from so-called "kit parts". I may still have the
original films around here somewhere (I save everything :-)
I'm just about out of scraps from that system (after 33 years :-)...
they were one-foot-square to start!
So I'm considering making a six-socket version for my G-job needs...
maybe run it thru one of those cheapy PCB houses (it's only
2-layers/sided)... maybe add some surface mount type pads.
Here's the Vectors series, I think. As usual, Digikey thinks they are
made of gold 
http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Vector%20PDFs/Eurocard%20Prototyping%20Boards.pdf
Cheers
...Jim Thompson
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