The Electronic Detective’s RTFM Case, Pallet Shed Plans

A minor health panic screwed up the week’s operational plans around here, taking Friday List Items off the table for another week.  Still, some damn-fine adventures in the Home HandyBastard’s world of tool slut sales and grand designs for the future… Radio Det. Case of the RTFM I may have mentioned to you that the Radio Detective is a super-slut when comes to antique-ish ham radio gear made by the late Hallicrafters Company?  The two-bit lowdown …

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The Electronic Detective: Case #136

When I published the first “Case #1 of The Electronic Detective” long before branching off the Ultra-Make site, the idea was – in our first episode, we will tackle a medium-complexity problem in electronics – there have been dozens of additional cases which might be of interest to an electronics aficionado. But unfortunately there is only so much time and so much energy to write up highly specialized learnings. But to be sure, a review …

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