wood works great, and yes, i know you can use iron tools in a pinch, but it makes things much harder for someone without experience, and the tools are dirt cheap as i recall. i've done my share of using tools and non-tools as tools creatively, it's often the best or most expedient way. i've also used sewing needles and paper clips to push pins into connectors i was wiring, but it's usually easier with the "correct" tool. i'm sure edison used tools creatively as well, he did everything else very creatively. in 7th grade i also new someone with no electronics training or knowledge who new how to retune the slugs in portable radios, but few could have done it as well as he did without even understanding exactly what he was doing. it just goes to show that some people are very gifted, in his case poverty necessitated it, necessity being the muther of invention.
Bill Brown wrote: --------------- > Weeellll, not necessarily so about two points. Sure, an iron tool will make an >undesired change. And I can see where an engineer designing the thing would want >their work to be touched with only proper tools. But those of us who have been >cleaning up after the engineers ever since Thomas Edison had the first technician to >get his stuff working right, we know that field work requires you to adjust things >with whatever tools you've got at hand. You can get the hang of adjusting with a >fudge or cwag factor to your work even when using the tiny screwdriver that came with >your mother's sewing machine. A couple of tries and you will get it right. Just let >the driver cool down between tries. And about the need for anything that even >resembles a correct tuning wand at all: The experience of Jeff Garrison, myself, and >others of this forum have found that a long oriental food skewer stick with a finely >pointed end does a great job of adjusting that inductor slug. Better yet, use two o! > f 'em, one from each side together and you can adjust even the tightest slug. >Personally, I know this to be valid because such a "tool" was all I had through the >first couple of hundred SE and SE/30 Macs I worked with. This was before I learned of >ratty shack and other tools. And it is some of my found information about those tools >that is in the pickle's FAQ. So a lot of us have had to be successfully using >something other that any "...absolutely needed plastic alignment tools...". May I >suggest for this forum the following slogan: We who have done so much with so little >for so long can now do anything instantly with nothing" -------- "Promise me, promise me this day, promise me now..." he asked. "Even as they strike you down, you will remember: humanity is not our enemy. The only thing worthy of you is compassion...Hatred will never let you face the beast in human beings. One day, when you face the beast alone, with your courage intact, your eyes kind...out of your smile will bloom a flower. and...on the long, rough road, the sun and the moon will continue to shine." Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
