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Old 03-10-2012, 01:47 PM
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Shameful. You should apologize. I work with engineers from all over the world, and their English is hard to understand, but I don't mock them. You are embarassing America, no matter how funny you think you are.
Engineer? You mustn't have had the pleasure to see him drill through the top of the Admiral into the CRT to install "digital switches."
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Old 03-11-2012, 12:09 AM
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Some engineers do stuff that only a tech can undo and then they are thankful. And then they "brick" a perfectly good system again. It never ends.
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Old 03-11-2012, 09:24 PM
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"Remember wrist watches?" ????
And speaking of remembering wristwatches, in the picture that started this thread, I'll bet that only the repairman on the left worked on auto radios, as he is the only one wearing a leather watch band!

Many of the behind-the-dash terminals on those 40's and 50's cars were not insulated. All it took was that brass watchband touching a hot terminal and the ground at the same time and that 6 or 12 volts could leave you with a burn tattoo for life!

It was the Amps, and not the Volts that did the frying.

I knew two servicemen who sported these burn scars.

All it took was forgetting to remove your metal banded watch once!


Actually, I still wear a wrist watch, as I find analog time is just more visual and easier to see when you are late . . . . .



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Old 03-12-2012, 04:52 PM
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burned my wrist back about 1970 on an ammeter under a dash never stuck my hands
in anything electrical again with a watch on since !
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no wonder most electricians do not wear their wedding bands
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Old 03-12-2012, 10:03 PM
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An important tip about a wristwatch, glad it was mentioned! I knew about wedding bands (tales in an automotive trade magazine about a band glowing red hot were enough to scare me!) but hadn't thought about the watch. I do find myself fishing around under the dash of old cars from time to time. The leather band would help, of course, but I think next time I'll take the Timex off.
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Work with one hand in your pocket so you can be the engineer and not the conductor.
That's great, never heard it before. I promise to give you credit when I use it!
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Old 03-13-2012, 09:26 AM
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no wonder most electricians do not wear their wedding bands
Ihad a boss who had a non-conducting wedding ring. Made of Ivory, or plastic...
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Old 03-16-2012, 01:35 PM
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That is a very nice view of the inside of a TV shop. I remember going to the store with my mum to look at colour TV in the 60's.
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Old 03-16-2012, 02:38 PM
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Does anyone here remember Friendly Frost? Or Newmark and Lewis?
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Does anyone here remember Friendly Frost? Or Newmark and Lewis?
Went the way of Topps Appliance some years earlier...

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My parents would go food shopping on Friday night, and when they wanted to leave, they knew they could find me at the appliance store in the plaza watching Flintstones, or some other show on all the color sets lined up like good soldiers. RCA, Zenith, Admiral, GE, Westinghouse, Philco. It seemed that the store sold many, many different brands. NTSC always meant, as it still does, "never twice the same color" !
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Old 03-16-2012, 05:07 PM
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Does anyone have any pictures of the large consoles of the 60's in their store displays?
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Old 03-16-2012, 10:35 PM
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I remember a couple very nice pics like that being on here before; they may be buried deep in some old threads. Was it Veg-O-Matic that posted a store in a shopping mall circa late 60s? There is another one with a room that had consoles lined up on big shelves.

I thought I'd post a few pictures I took from the last TV shop I helped clean out. This was near the end; the building (and most of the contents) are gone now; that color tv test jig is still sitting here at my place awaiting a new home, among other things!
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