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Default Picking up the tools again.

I still have plenty of Veroboard, discrete components and a microscope
Brian.


On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:19:59 +0100, Brian Gaff \(Sofa 2\) wrote:

The main difference these days is everything is surface mount, ie no
holes etc.
This was just becoming the norm when I retired, but my eyesight by then
was
shot in any case.

So if you need any new components it is very hard to find the ones for
normal fixings, ie with wires etc, at a reasonable cost and genuine.
Brian


I still have plenty of Veroboard, discrete components and a microscope.