Read and heed, or you'll be sorry. The cold weather causes us to spend more time in the shack and to work on new homebrew project. Some of these projects may involve sensitive, delicate, solid-state components that can be instantly wiped out by that little winter spark from your finger...
Take a look:
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2016/01/an-electro-static-bandaid-to-protect.html
I have to be especially careful this year, because Northern Virginia is now officially in a drought. So that spark-friendly dry winter air is likely to be even dryer this year.
Re: Scrapping a Classic
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If there's a good side to this ending, it's the plethora of parts that will
eventually be available to others trying to keep their 300J, 20V-2, or 21E
goin...
4 hours ago