As I get ready to move to Florida, I look over the last 25 years of collecting radio stuff.
The vast majority was acquired within the last 10 years or so. And of course I look at boxes of parts thinking when the heck will I use any of this stuff. Nevertheless, I pack up the tube sockets, oil filled capacitors and resistors to make ready for a trip south. So the other night the temerature in Cleveland fell to about 28 or so. And the vented natural gas heater was working fine for several days. But that evening it decided to act up. The furnace is natural gas fired and vents through the wall. I installed it about 14 years ago and it has been running great up until this season when it beagn to lose the pilot flame for no apparent reason. This loss of pilot is annoying but could be handled by restarting the pilot with the piezo starter. This time that little red button had come apart in my hand. A button, a spring and some other pieces layed on the ground. And the bedroom was getting cold quick. I had not packed up some of the junk boxes yet - and I do mean junk boxes. In one of the boxes I found a model T spark coil. I grabbed a few alligator clips , the tin lizzy coil and an Eico battery eliminator. In about 30 seconds I cobbled up an electric starter that worked much better than the original. So you never know what you might need. Even an old model T coil. de KA4JVY Mark ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Degrees online in as fast as 1 Yr - MBA, Bachelor's, Master's, Associate Click now to apply http://yahoo.degrees.info ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected]
