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My Introduction

jimhenry2000

Hello everyone!  I just discovered this group a few days ago and joined, so I thought I would introduce myself. I started building circuits as a teen ager (maybe pre-teen), mostly from kits such as Heathkits, Edu-Kit, and designs in Popular Electronics. I'm proud to still have and use my Knight Kit analog VOM that I built 50 years ago! (attached).  While I'm an EE by education, my career has taken many twists ad turns and I am now an optical fiber engineer by vocation. Anyway, I've decided to renew my interest in antique vacuum tube radios which is what brings me here. I'm very interested in Ben Heck's Portable Electronics Workbench I saw here, that I think I would find incredibly useful in repairing/restoring old radios. I'd buy that in a heartbeat if I could find one for sale.

So that's what brings me here, but I'm also very interested in almost all new technology.

Jim

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  • Hi Jim, Welcome to the forum.  My first electronics technology was also vacuum tubes. My dad was a salesman that traveled around and he would stop in second hand shops and buy old radios and bring them home to me. I loved to fix them up. I liked your meter too. Quite a bit of my test equipment were kits from Knight, Heath Kit, Eico and others that were available in the 1960s. It is nice that you are joining the forum. I look forward to seeing some of your vacuum tube repair projects. I hope you find the bench you are looking for.

    John

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  • Hi Jim, Welcome to the forum.  My first electronics technology was also vacuum tubes. My dad was a salesman that traveled around and he would stop in second hand shops and buy old radios and bring them home to me. I loved to fix them up. I liked your meter too. Quite a bit of my test equipment were kits from Knight, Heath Kit, Eico and others that were available in the 1960s. It is nice that you are joining the forum. I look forward to seeing some of your vacuum tube repair projects. I hope you find the bench you are looking for.

    John

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