05-08-2011, 08:18 PM
(05-08-2011, 03:31 PM)Jamie-Skinner Wrote: A computer next to you is very helpful, I can easily monitor the forum and listen to my music while repairing sets or look at Service Data, (Though I still have it in paper copy so I can write notes on it etc)
I have an old one that the school literally chucked at me, and bought a £10 TFT monitor on eBay, It fits in the corner of my bench very nicely and doesn't clutter it.
Huh, why didn't I go to a school like yours with all the freebies that seem to come your way!!?:s
I've only got one possession that came from school, and I had to steal that!
When I say 'steal' I disobeyed the metalwork teacher's instructions to put the hammer to my sub-standard (in his eyes) little copper vase in the scrap bin. I was rather chuffed with my handiwork, and considered it my property - not his, so I hammered the bench to pretend I'd smashed it, shoved it in my pocket and spirited it away. I'm rather glad that I did, because if nothing else, it illustrates the standards expected of 12-yr old kids back in 1952 whose future employment prospects had been pre-determined at 11 by the then two-tier education system. We were to be 'factory fodder' and were expected to shape up and be ready for work at age 15.
I have that little vase to this day, and I've attached a couple of pics. I have to admit that I ought not to have used a centre punch to add 'graffiti' to the base - my initials, the year and my age, and the sensible to have done would have been to punch the letters on before the base was attached with silver solder, and to have done so far more neatly. Buy hey - I was just turned 12 - a kid, not a miniature adult!
To quote 1 Corinthians 13:11
'When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways'.
(Except I didn't - I still haven't decided what I want to be when I grow up
)Anyway, for what it's worth, I've attached a couple of pics of my little vase, which is 2.5" tall. I cherish it as the only tangible reminder of my childhood years. I still think it was better than scrap, and worth at least 5/10.
Sorry to have drifted way off topic, but we're allowed to do that in this Parish, so I hope I'll be forgiven and not told to stand in the 'naughty corner' , and that it's of interest.
Apologies to those who opened this post expecting (quite rightly) some erudite comments on test gear.
Footnote to Master Skinner:
If another '375' VTVM turns up at school , can I have first claim on it please? - you don't need two!
David
