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I’m just getting started. But I’m looking forward to learning and helping others as I learn.  Great to be here.  Thanks! 73

LOL, I guess you needed one more thing to do huh Paul? 😉 I think the Forum is a good idea. I am hoping it works out as well as some of the better forums out there. The list isn’t very long. Let us know how we can help.

@mandelstam I share some of your concerns also, and like Paul has said maybe having a two part forum.

One part open to the public and other Patreon member only.

Here again there could be spillover between the two.

Hi from Alberta, Glad to be aboard.

Paul, I’ve been watching your videos for 3 or 4 years but was never able to comment on youtube.

Just wondering if you ever knew or meet VE6GB (silent key) as he was my neighbour and he was much like you.

Art Fritz had a Major amount of surplus gear amongst various shops and garages starting in the 70’s when I first got to know him.

He was ex air force tech and eventually went to work for the Calgary Herald (setting up early computer/presses) where he retired and in the 70’s he started buying armed forces surplus electronics. I spent many a day on road trips where we would head to Edmonton and load surplus electronics from the airbase then bring it down to his back yard where much of the larger stuff I would tear down – like surplus Marconi 10,000 watt SW transmitters and all manor of obsolete tech that would be parted out and sold.

The highlights of my time with Art were in working off what I owed him for old boat anchor receivers, scopes, rack gear, audio test equipment etc. Unfortunately I never really caught on to the repair side do to color blindness and poor eyesight but the electronics bug has always persisted and now I have a house full of old radios, tube testers many many tubes, vintage test gear and even a 1/2 dozen early TV’s etc.

The computer bug caught me in the late 70’s as did the high end stereo phase in which I started collecting Sansui.

My first Sansui was now the legendary G-9700 that I bought new in june of ’80 eventually followed by 3 more G97’s as well as several superb G-7700s and a whole lot more. For 44 years there has be no shortage of wattage in the cottage and shortwave listening and I owe it all to Aft Fritz VE6GB.

Paul, every since I first caught your youtube channel you have always reminded me of the incredible Mr Fritz.

Cheers,

moe/Alberta

Hi all, new to the forum,  but long time follower. From Southern California 

Hello from NZ. I’ve been lurking on YouTube for a long time and I’ve built up a couple of Mr C’s projects – the curve tracer and the cap leakage tester. The leakage tester has proved extremely useful and I’ve used it to diagnose leakage on more than just capacitors – it has spotted leakage on transmitter PCBs as well. Very nice tool to have.

Cheers,

Tony

Nice! My post-name is Scuba-Man-1970… real name is Paul Neem. I’m a reshly-minted, semi-retired high school teacher developing property up here on the North Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. l glad my monthly donation is going towards venues like this! This is the type of professional development that I enjoy. Nice!

I’ve been a factory authorized A/V repair technician since 1976.

I currently repair Pro NEC & Panasonic 3-21K LCD & 3 chip DLP Laser projectors along with all the other gear

I might as well hang out here with Mr C and you guys

Thank you, Paul, for the wonderful videos! I’m waiting on a few more parts then I’ll give building your Leakage tester a shot. I’m getting giggly thinking of using it in my shop.

AngryAmpWorkshop, LLC

Great work, Paul.

Shawn

Thanks Paul for creating this forum! Looking forward to all the interesting builds and topics

Gary

@boudreaux Small world, I’m from LC SWLA as well!

Your doing a great job Paul at explaining what we need to know about electronics. Last year I was an oil and gas consultant, today I’m retired, a ham, building circuit boards and learning about electronics from a master. O what a wonderful world this is… 73 KG5UWJ.

@canardav8r Welcome for the 7 land, and was from the 5 land when I worked in the Golf for PHI.
Was KB5AZP.

@larry_n7luf thanks 73 KG5UWJ

Thanks for having me! I’m mostly a software guy (I make music making instrument and effect plug-ins for DAW software) but I’ve been YouTube learning electronics from you and a few other channels for well over a decade now and I’m ready to get in trouble. Recently fixed up an old synth – a Korg Mono/Poly (which didn’t need much more than a pot replaced). Got a VARIAC (an actual General Radio 20 amp one that I got a crazy good deal on!), an isolation transformer, hacked a cheater plug to lift the ground, and built the world’s cheapest current limiter by putting one extension cord in series with another, then just plugging regular desk lamps into it. All of that made me feel a lot better bringing this device that spent the last 30 years in the bottom of my buddy’s mom’s closet back to life. Brought the voltage up slowly over an hour and it all seems fine, so I’ve so far resisted the urge to fix any capacitors that aren’t broken. Even the original calibration is still intact as it really didn’t need any tweaking!

Looking forward to learning even more here. Thanks for doing what you do, Paul! (I’ll join your Patreon someday too, I definitely want your capacitor leakage tester plans, but money is very tight – hence the world’s cheapest current limiter, above. 😉 )