Re: Sayonara, good people

["mikey" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mercury, shmurkury,
does anybody remember that glowing shit they used to put on speedometers,
man, that one still scares me, I remember having one under the covers in bed
lighting up comic books.... man, no wonder my hair is falling out

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> > I'll never forget the first hands-on electronics class I took, it was in
> the
> > stock room of Heathkit. I also took ham radio classes there and took my
> > first ham license test at the same place.
> >
> > In those days there was basically 3 sources of parts in my area;
Heathkit,
> > Lafayette Radio and Radio Shaft.
> >
> > AH...there's nothing like the smell of solder flux in the morning!
> >
> >
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> > Little did we know that working with lead based solder was hazardous to
> our
> > health...   I still love the smell of burnt components though (followed
by
> > the jingle of "change" in my pocket after we fix 'em)...
> >
> >
> I can remember eating paint chips when i was a youn' un...and i dill hear!
>
> And watching a ball of mercury splatter into a million little balls and
> scouping them back together into one ball again. Than shining up a quarter
> by rubbing the mercury on it. The wonderful world of chemistry. :o)
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