[pure-silver] Re: Off topic, Spot meter problem

  • From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:38:14 -0500

Dana H. Myers wrote:
> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>  We had a saying at the Radar shop back in the
>> Bad Old Days, "If you can't fix it with WD-40, a hammer, and some
>> 1N914s *** it can't be fixed."  I do not recommend hammers when tuning
>> a Pentax meter :)
>>
>> *** A 1N914 is a type of diode very common in many kinds of radios
>>     and Radars.
> 
> Though 1N4148s seem to be more common these days.
> 
> ;-)


You have to understand that I'm not that old, I just did this Radar thing
a long time ago (at the age of 5 :)  Back then the 1N914s ruled.

P.S. I am, however, old enough to have done lots of service work on
equipment employing "Vacuum FETs" (aka Pentodes) <smirk>


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