On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:58:10 +0000
Tom Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, John Stumbles wrote:

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:10:34 +0000, Clive George wrote:

I'm reading this in uk.d-i-y, not uk.get-somebody-else-to-build-it :-)

Yeah I know, *real* DIY computer hackers etch their own PCBs, roll their
own capacitors, build their own chip fab facilities ...

This is something a bit more specialist than a computer, but a Mr Robert
Trautman writes with news of literally rolling his own capacitors (down
the bottom):

http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/marxgen.htm

Nice ... bookmarked. :O)