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I'm starting to worry about a visit from Homeland Security. I found this on the blog of W6IEE. He blames K6FWT.

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New recruits have been signing up for the Color Burst Liberation Army. We have been sending out many more 3.579 MHz crystals. Pete Juliano was doing some noodling and came up with this plan for Manhattan pads or Me(Maine)Pads. All you need is some copper clad board, a pair of Home Depot tin shears and some super glue. Cut out the pads, glue them down, add components and get the Mighty Mite percolating.

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A thing of beauty! Check out the key!

What a great diagram. Schematic included!

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Remnants of mine

Steve "Snort Rosin" Smith's

More on all this:

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Hi Bill,

Your recent stories about your TT-2 and original TT-2 "mojo transfer" prompted me to resurrect my TT-2 'resto' project.

The attached photos show my 70s era TT-2 obtained for $5 from a QRP-L member. This is how I received it and you can see that it's almost a duplicate copy of the original, complete with 'phenolic' substrate PC board material and hand-scrawled traces.

I have collected most of the components necessary to convert it to a look-alike of Doug Demaw's 1976 item. I already have 1 or 2 of the proper Radio Shack RF chokes but lack one more to have the complete set and I'm about to grab some original Radio Shack 276-1617 transistors. The rest of the missing/incorrect parts I can drag out of the ever expansive Snort Rosin junque box.

By hand selecting the two transistors for max. power gain I hope to eek 300 mW out of the thing.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the shots and I'll send more when it's finished.

73.......Steve Smith WB6TNL
"Snort Rosin"

And now for something (almost) completely different. Rarely have wire cutters been described in such, well, almost erotic terms. This definitely seems like the stocking-stuffer of the year for the SolderSmoke in-crowd. And to think that I was pleased with a pair of $3.99 hemostats that I got from Amazon.

Hi Bill,

It's always nice to find something high-quality and inexpensive and today it happened to me so I thought I'd share my good fortune.

Having been in the professional radio repair business for 40 years (retired 2012), I very much appreciate quality hand tools. On my bench at home I have an expensive pair of Lindstrom wire cutters but in the field I generally resorted to cheaper, not so high-quality tools (in case of inadvertent loss). The problem at home is it seems like every time I need to grab my Lindstroms, they're not where I'm at so I've been on the lookout for a spare pair or two of quality cutters. Well, today in the Fry's Electronic newspaper flyer I saw an ad. for Hakko brand wire cutters on sale for $2.99, regularly $4.99, a 40% saving. Me being, shall we say, "thrifty", this immediately got my attention. I know Hakko markets some very good soldering related equipment, however until today I had no experience with their line of hand tools.

So, between some appointments this morning I stopped at our local Fry's store and checked out the cutters. I was expecting to find something typically cheap and made in China so imagine my surprise at discovering they are made in Italy! The part # of this particular tool is CHP-170 and is mfg. by the CHP Tools division of Hakko. The hand grips are palm-fitting and very comfortable with thumb and forefinger rests at the top of each for tool manipulation. The design is what I would call "Ferrari-esque"; bright red with black accents. Very pleasing to the eye. Turns out that The metal parts are high grade tool steel and Parkerized for low reflectivity and high wear and corrosion resistance. What impressed me the most is the cutting surfaces; they mate perfectly. So many inexpensive cutters have lousy mating surfaces, these don't. With the cutting edges 'closed', shining a high-intensity light on one side results in -no- light 'leaking' by the mated edges. That's first-class machining!

IMO, even at the typical price of $5 or so, these cutters are a bargain, especially considering the quality (how does one say, "it is very good!" in Italian?). So, if you or anyone you know is in the market for some great wire cutters, tell them that the Hakko CHP-170 has the "Snort Rosin" seal of approval, HA!

73.......Steve Smith WB6TNL
http://www.amazon.com/Hakko-CHP-170-Maximum-Cutting-Capacity/dp/B00FZPDG1K

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