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From: John Hasler on 7 Mar 2010 13:33 V. writes: > He's too sharp and accurate for an old man. Pfft. I'm merely middle-aged. My father is old. He's in his late nineties. > I am pretty sure I would be a mess up at his age. It's taking care of 37 horses that does it. That, and running every morning. > Hence my disbelief :) Well, this is the Net. You don't know for sure that I'm not a dog. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: John Hasler on 7 Mar 2010 13:37 General Schvantzkoph writes: > It's only about 45 years for me, but I am NASA certified (at least I > was in the early 70s), do I get extra points for that? +5 certified -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: John Hasler on 7 Mar 2010 13:44 Jonesy writes: > I still love that smell... Both the heated solder and the surplus > electronic gear. For me it was junk my father brought home from Michigan Bell. I still have some old Western Electric microwave gear. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Moe Trin on 7 Mar 2010 14:11 On Sat, 06 Mar 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article <87vdd96loi.fsf(a)thumper.dhh.gt.org>, John Hasler wrote: >Michael writes: >> I've never soldered with acid core solder in my life... >It isn't used for electronics, for obvious reasons. It probably >isn't made any more. The 1/2 by 1 by 16 inch bars - used for auto-body work. Yeah, it's been replaced by Bondo or similar artificial stuff. Lead dust when you sand it down - nambie-pambies. The bars also were used by plumbers sealing joints in 3-4 inch iron waste pipe - used ordinary 3/16" diameter solder for hard copper water lines. >> ...and I first soldered 39 years ago. >I first soldered about 55 years ago. 1955? Yeah, I built my first two Heathkits - an audio amp (to go with the FM tuner and pre-amp my father built) and a VTVM a bit before then - I wonder where _they_ are hiding. >> The rosin left over after soldering has always been quite solid, >> it's only going to get in one's hair if it rubs off. And maybe >> that would leave your hair nice and shiny. >"A little dab'll do ya." Back in the 1950s I was using Vitalis - didn't like the greasy look of Brylcreem. Haven't needed either for the past 40 years. Old guy
From: Sidney Lambe on 7 Mar 2010 14:32
On comp.os.linux.misc, Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, John Hasler wrote: > >> Grant writes: >> >>> If you can find a few old spools of solder somewhere, you >>> should be able to hammer out some decent tin/lead foil that >>> would have good brain-control wave shielding characteristics. >> >> Now we know what RoHS is _really_ about. Fortunately, I've got >> about thirty pounds of the stuff (in fact, it's the only kind >> of solder I do have). >> >>> Anyhow the solvents required to get [rosin flux] out of your >>> hair are nasty, so solid-core solder is recommended. >> >> Acid core. > > I've never soldered with acid core solder in my life, and I > first soldered 39 years ago. > > The rosin left over after soldering has always been quite > solid, it's only going to get in one's hair if it rubs off. And > maybe that would leave your hair nice and shiny. > > Michael Why do dumbshits like you always think they are unbearably clever? I have never seen you post on-topic before. Do you even read the Subject lines? Sid |