flipper wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:38:37 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
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flipper wrote:

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:11:19 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
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?? ?? On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:05:45 -0700, Jim Thompson
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?? ?? ????On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:40:29 -0700, Jim Thompson
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?? ?? ??????Yes. What's wrong with phenolic in this application?
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?? ?? ???????In the future I may just layout a smaller version of my IC breadboard
?? ?? ???????scheme and get it made on one of the PCB websites.
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?? ?? ??????? ...Jim Thompson
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?? ?? ?????In my Dad's TV shop I saw so many phenolic failures I'm just resistant
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?? ?? ????Good point, if you were making a 1960's TV
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?? ?? ????? ...Jim Thompson
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?? ?? ???My Dad's trucks featured a sign, "We Don't Service Muntz" ;-)
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?? ?? ??Well, they didn't call him "Madman" Muntz for nothing, you know.
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?? ?? ??? ...Jim Thompson
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?? ?? ?He serviced them for awhile. Then customers started complaining that
?? ?? ?my Dad did poor service... as soon as the tubes aged, the reception
?? ?? ?degenerated. So he dumped Muntz altogether.
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?? ?? Yeah, I knew exactly what his sign meant and why. Muntz TV sets had
?? ?? barely enough parts to work at all, which is why they were uber cheap.
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?? ?? "There's something about a Muntz." You be there was; it's only one
?? ?? step above junk.
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?? Sure. Out of the box they usually worked for 'some' period of time.
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? I never saw on 'just out of the box'. Like Packard Bell, we didn't
?see them in our area till they WERE junk.

Well, just about everything ends up there sooner or later but Muntz
TVs started off closer to the heap.


I only saw one of them, but that was enough. It looked like it was
built from pre W.W. II surplus.

Could be, I suppose, but WWII surplus seems a lot more likely as the
country was darn near swimming in the stuff there for a while.

There sure was a lot of it. An uncle of mine built a logging equipment
business by converting WWII surplus half tracks into cherry pickers and
log haulers.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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