That should keep you out of trouble for a bit.
They look as though they were built by someone who knew what he was doing. Are they all from the same Builder?
Yes, all are signed Pickhaven, dated from 1974 to 1977. All good quality parts inside, only issues I have is some of the kit had power wires soldered directly to the battery ends so I'm going to have to change them up for proper battery carriers.
(09-06-2016, 05:20 PM)ed731pdh Wrote: ..looking at refurbing them for my son when he starts going down the electronics road.
"when", or "if"...
My son, my eldest, is 10 now, and isn't showing much sign of wanting to follow in my footsteps. And I can't blame him, if I'm honest...
However, my daughter clearly has strong leanings towards an engineering discipline. She's younger - aged 7 - but definitely takes after me in that regard. And luckily for her, she takes after her mother in the looks department
Either way, these look like nice projects that were lovingly constructed, and I'm interested to learn more about them.
I think the first issue is that because of their age I may struggle in getting schematics for them. OK, some of them are generic in design and should not be too difficult to suss out, but one box has four seperate devices all feeding off the same battery pack so that's going to be a challenge. I suspect it's a case of documenting each one as they get looked at and publish the findings. I think I'll have a quick look at the KHZ generator first as it's easiest to look at and get a feel as to how it was constructed.
As to kids, I'm in agreement with you. My ten year old son is on and off, but my six year old daughter takes after her mother and has a healthy interest in mechanical engineering as well as electronics, so which way this is going to go I do not know.
Hi.
Isn't it funny how kids either love or hate making things!
Our two eldest (now 35 & 33) have never had a bit of interest in construction or mending things, the youngest daughter at 26 is the total opposite, she has a 1962 Dynatron Radio gram, has cleaned switches, fitted stylus's and even fitted a new ECL86 when it went microphonic. I suppose being an art teacher helps with the hands on side of things.
I'm all for building things and glad those items of test gear have gone to a good home
Cheers.
Trevor
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