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Those were the days
"NotMe" wrote in message . .. Were those the days when you had to show proof of a permit from the Postmaster General before you could purchase anything that might conceivably be used in the construction of a radio set? |
Those were the days
You can see something similar if you walk into your local auto parts
store. Only, most people there won't be wearing coats and ties, and the only hats you'll see will be baseball caps. Oh well, those were the days... -- Shawn K www.thisoldradio.com |
Those were the days
"Shawn K" wrote in message news:Cb_%i.8296$cD.5162@pd7urf2no... You can see something similar if you walk into your local auto parts store. Only, most people there won't be wearing coats and ties, and the only hats you'll see will be baseball caps. Oh well, those were the days... Type approvals etc etc.......... Give it time - the auto parts stores will go the same way! |
Those were the days
"Ron in Radio Heaven" wrote in message ... ian field wrote: Were those the days when you had to show proof of a permit from the Postmaster General before you could purchase anything that might conceivably be used in the construction of a radio set? That must have been in the UK or OZ, not in the US, the Post Office has nothing to do with radio here. Ron In the British isles during WW2 there were restrictions on radio equipment (I think transmitters of any kind were banned altogether), during WW1 the restrictions were extremely harsh! I think it may even have been possible to get executed as a spy for having a radio. The draconian restrictions persisted quite a long time after the second war. At the moment - not having much luck googling for info on the restrictions that existed then, what little I've read came from Practical Wireless 75 year celebration historic reprints. |
Those were the days
"NotMe" wrote in message
. .. What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been "back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and pieces to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell phones or satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not like now. It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround sound, and cell phones. From an radio hobbyist point of view, those were the days. I don't know about spies and government regulations. |
Those were the days
"NotMe" wrote in message
. .. What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been "back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and pieces to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell phones or satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not like now. It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround sound, and cell phones. From an radio hobbyist point of view, those were the days. I don't know about spies and government regulations. |
Those were the days
"NotMe" wrote in message . .. "NotMe" wrote in message . .. What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been "back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and pieces to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell phones or satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not like now. It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround sound, and cell phones. In those days when old folk thought that if you switched on a light with no bulb in the socket, that electricity would fill the room like gas and kill them, there would have been many people who felt the same way about wireless as you do about HDTV & mobile phones. |
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"Jim Mueller" wrote in
message ... Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in her purse! Including her little Kleenex packet? And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse, including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.) |
Those were the days
William Sommerwerck wrote:
"Jim Mueller" wrote in message ... Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in her purse! Including her little Kleenex packet? And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse, including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.) Most people are disconnected from the modern technologies. I once went to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The sales girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in the fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Ken |
Those were the days
"Ken" wrote in message ... William Sommerwerck wrote: "Jim Mueller" wrote in message ... Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in her purse! Including her little Kleenex packet? And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse, including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.) Most people are disconnected from the modern technologies. I once went to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The sales girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in the fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Ken That could be quite entertaining with a fully charged NiCd. |
Those were the days
In article , Ken
wrote: William Sommerwerck wrote: "Jim Mueller" wrote in message ... Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in her purse! Including her little Kleenex packet? And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse, including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.) Most people are disconnected from the modern technologies. I once went to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The sales girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in the fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Ken Putting it in the fridge sounds like a good idea, wrapping it in "tinfoil" sounds like a bad idea, but fortunately tinfoil is not so easily available. Regards, John Byrns -- Surf my web pages at, http://fmamradios.com/ |
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"Ken" wrote in message
... I once went to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The sales girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in the fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Well, doesn't one same unneeded food by wrapping it in foil and sticking it in the refrigerator? Ignoring the fact that the foil would have shorted the cell... This is actually a perfectly good idea if you can seal the cell in a moisture-proof package (so it doesn't dry out in the refrigerator's low humidity). |
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That kinda reminds me of the old Lafayette store in Portland Oregon . We
used to go there when i was to young to know much about the stuff . My brother would buy parts . I remember real long rows of counters with shelves full behind them and neet stuff in the glass counters . We still have a thriving small parts house here with resistors , capacitors , tons of NTE , pots , soldering iron tips , test leads , bulbs , wire and all the goodys . I almost feel wrong going in there thinking it cant be true or i will wake up with empty hands . |
Those were the days
Ken wrote:
William Sommerwerck wrote: "Jim Mueller" wrote in message ... Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in her purse! Including her little Kleenex packet? And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse, including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.) Most people are disconnected from the modern technologies. I once went to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The sales girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in the fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Ken From the sales manager. It boosts sales, and has the same turnover period as one battery. |
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I worked in a place similar to this 1976-1979, Norwest Electronics in
Livonia, Michigan. My old boss, Thaddeous Opalinsky just died recently, aged 88 or so. Wish I had some inside shots of it now. We had the best stock of parts anywhere... full line of GC belts, idlers, etc, Sprague caps of all kinds, Sylvania and International Servicemaster tubes (and some "old stock" stuff too!), ECG transistors, Thordarson power, audio and TV transformers, Centralab pots and switches. We also bought from a Chicago surplus house called "Mid-America" that packaged stuff under the "Electronic Bargains" brand, it was all kinds of production over-runs like Olson Electronics used to sell. That was during the CB craze, also during the "Channel 20" decoder craze in the Detroit area, where CH 20 was playing new and racy movies but you had to have a decoder. I forget what that system was, but guys would come in from the local factories where the decoder schematics circulated like Super Bowl bidder cards. They were always so afraid to reveal what they were building... that was funny. All us counter guys knew of course. I was already 4 years into restoring radios then... I had anything I needed right at hand. Like today... after buying up over 15 repair shops! Between me and Gary Schneider (www.oldradioparts.com ) pretty much anything you need now for radio restoration (except unique cosmetic parts like bezels) is still available, at mostly lower prices than it was in the 70's or earlier, if you refigure for inflation. Mark Oppat www.oldradioparts.net "NotMe" wrote in message . .. |
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