[sdiy] "VINTAGE AUDIO" capacitors

[George Mattson]

I guess so. That or, I lost a comma. Or, induced one, which I'm in now :)
,,,,,,,,,,

Here's some spares. The vintage comma's were better.

There's actually only 5 of them but, I had to separate them with more
commas. Whatever happened to pencils?


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Parkhurst [mailto:tim.parkhurst at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 9:50 PM
To: George Mattson
Cc: Dave Manley; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] "VINTAGE AUDIO" capacitors

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:15 PM, George Mattson <axisair at comcast.net> wrote:
> LOL.
>
> I don't know how people have the balls to pull that stuff off.
>
> When I learned electronics, we were making our own capacitors out of 
> jars, wood rocks, paper using tin foil. We didn't have pure aluminum 
> wrap available back then. :)
>
> But, we made coils out of toilet paper rolls, oatmeal boxes, wooden
dowels.
>
> The good old days. At least we didn't stael the BBQ charcoal to make 
> resistors...
>

You had WOOD ROCKS?!?

Back in MY day, we had to... actually I don't know where I'm going with
this.


Tim (I got nothin' to match 'wood rocks') Servo
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