> Now "Darling, where's that old K3 I put away in the attic in 1982?"
1) have the kit delivered somewhere else, e.g. your friendly garage; 2) throw away the original box and shipping documents; 3) liberally dust all the parts, and especially the front panel, with face powder; smear the transparent parts with paper glue, simulating scratches (not a permanent damage but very convincing); 4) try to remove the face dust using a piece of waste, thus leaving a lot of fine lines along all the corners (best way to have something new looking years old; good for customs too) 5) take the manual and thumb it a lot with well dirty and greasy hands; 6) mark around many of the manual's pages with a lot of tick marks, arrows, and so on; 7) trample on it, and half-tear the schematic diagram pages; 8) throw all parts together in a big, ugly, well beaten grocery carton box; 9) on a Saturday morning, have a friendly OM calling you, announcing the death of some OM down there at just 15 miles away, and suggesting a visit to the garage auction his wife is already, hastily organizing while the poor boy is still warm in the coffin; 10) come home with the old box, wires dangling all around and a BIG smile on your face, all the while congratulating yourself for your sheer luck in recognizing some useful half-done kit buried in that garbage; 11) mount the kit but leave out some parts of the case; blame the deceased and his stupid wife for having lost those parts (this will be the real finest of the tricks); 12) after a LOOOONG while, finish the kit but leave the face powder in place, so the last panels (previously washed and lightly oiled) will look slightly different. I did it a couple of times, and wife never found the trick. Maybe you shall inform all visiting OM not to give you away... Cheers, IK4YNG Paolo _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
