Slide rules? LOL! I haven't seen one of those in years .....
Hey Rick, I bought a Versalog while I was in electronics tech school in the early 70s and still have it along with the book.Log, log, 12" engineering nerd stick indicator on campus, lol with horn rim glasses! My last rule was imported from China & sold by Layfette Radio, catalog sales. Leather case, plastic over bamboo construction, kind' pricey in those days, post Vietnam 1970 education experience. Money was tight.
Rick C.
Allied and Lafayette catalogs were dog eared & worn from my constant reference & wishes searches. Trying to compare apples to apples value and performance wise before spending each dime & yes I too miss the stores....but the catalogs more.Hey Rick, I bought a Versalog while I was in electronics tech school in the early 70s and still have it along with the book.
I seen one in a pawn shop back in the early 80s that looked in good shape and went ahead and bought so I still have two
of them. We couldn't get along without one in the electronics courses! They were expensive in those days and at the time
we were living in Phoenix. I went back to the area in the early 80s and the area had really changed. You mentioned
Lafayette Radio and I spent a lot of time shopping in the Phoenix store. I really miss the old Radio Shack and Lafayette
stores.
I've owned the Garmin's over the years & confess each died of unknown causes, but just in time to upgrade with a more current model, lol. Mine were used often and in offshore marine environments not friendly to electronics or anything else except to gratify one's soul.Hey Rick, put new batteries in my Garmin and it seems to have died. Screen is all glitchy. Reboot got the same. Seldom used and never stored with batteries in it.
Tom
I remember the old-old-Radio Shack catalogs when I was in eight grade and a freshman in high school. TheAllied and Lafayette catalogs were dog eared & worn from my constant reference & wishes searches. Trying to compare apples to apples value and performance wise before spending each dime & yes I too miss the stores....but the catalogs more.
Rick C.
Hi Rick, mine was a Aldi purchase when a Cub Scout Master assured the Aldi manager they would sell. It was $50. As Patrick McManus said "Never sniff a gift fish" The next one will be that cheap. The one that died, did not fail me when I recorded GPS coordinates of a deceased Badger, and sent to the DNR for their data base.I've owned the Garmin's over the years & confess each died of unknown causes, but just in time to upgrade with a more current model, lol. Mine were used often and in offshore marine environments not friendly to electronics or anything else except to gratify one's soul.
Dying in storage not that uncommon with electronics but that doesn't alter the facts of nuisance & expense, does it?
Rick C.
My first calculator after getting out of tech school was a "Texas Instruments Scientific" calculator. I had problems with it a monthJeez! Slide Rules? I started my Tool and Die apprenticeship in 1969. The Summer of Love "if you could get it " My mathematics tests were intentionally long hand. But in 1970 I purchased my first Casio calculator.
Asking price was $100. Pretty stiff on apprentice wages.
Tom
That's handy! I've seen the walkie talkies advertised and wondered about them, good to check out!I guess a Garmin GPS can be called a tool so they will fit this thread, we have a group of guys that my son and I hunt with every year on Cedar Creek WMA in middle Ga. It's 40k acres so a GPS is a must, we all have the Garmin with walkie talkies function, when each Hunter reaches his stand or blind he keys his device and it sends his coordinance to the group. It's a built in safety feature.
Good work Tom, but I've not been able to view your attachment.Latest progress in upgrading my Sportsman Flyer Reduction Drive and Pat please indulge an Old Fart.
Something to take note of.
Quality steel chain sprockets made by Martin and marketed by Motion Industries are very high quality.
And Motion, is now my go to source these days
My mistake and this is worth noting. I ordered a
13B41 and it was hub'd which I turned off in my Logan.
I then ordered a 35B42 input sprocket and it had a 1/2" wide hub too and welded on.
I am loath to turn that hub off and find the sprocket had potato chipped from released stress.
With a little effort cause I ain't never been here before. Hubless sprockets are "A"s So an 35A42 is on order.
The photo is the 13B41 drilled and reamed to the hole pattern of the Reduction Drive.
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