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Boris Mohar[_3_] Boris Mohar[_3_] is offline
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:38:44 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Tuesday, 13 June 2017 22:03:32 UTC+1, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 13:45:40 -0700, tabbypurr wrote:

I'd first be mindful of mechanical damage from doing that. When was the
book written? Germanium?


Haha! I think even those old germanium diodes would easily cope with a
four foot fall!


I think those would be some of the more fragile items. Many have an extremely thin filament stretching a few mm with no support at all.


NT



Regards,

Boris Mohar

Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things)
http://www.viatrack.ca

void _-void-_ in the obvious place



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