Amplifier and Speaker Ohms

[Rhinochugger]

Used to go to elementary school with wire, batteries, switches, etc, and make circuits in my desk.

Greg

OK if you had metal desks, I s'pose

 

[Greg Elmassian]

I used the wire , no short circuits... although the top was wood and the bottom was metal... Masking tape for insulation on the wired connections, and only D cells for batteries.

 

[Moonraker]

Jimmy,

In your photo you have a loose wire dangling over the soundcard chips. I suggest you secure it to avoid a possible short circuit.

Regards
Peter Lucas
MyLocoSound

 

[JimmyB]

Jimmy,

In your photo you have a loose wire dangling over the soundcard chips. I suggest you secure it to avoid a possible short circuit.

Regards
Peter Lucas
MyLocoSound

Peter, it is capped of, but I take your point, ta

 

[Paul M]

I used the wire , no short circuits... although the top was wood and the bottom was metal... Masking tape for insulation on the wired connections, and only D cells for batteries.

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You've obviously grown since those days Greg, how did you reach the ink well?

 

[Greg Elmassian]

Funny, the hole was still there, but no inkwell, this was in the 50's.

But you could bring wires through the hole!

I got away with murder in the elementary school, it never connected until I got chewed out in 7th grade, where the teacher said that she did not care if my dad was the principal of the school or not. I finally realized I got preferential treatment in the earlier grades because of that.

Greg

 

[Rhinochugger]

You've obviously grown since those days Greg, how did you reach the ink well?

I can well remember desks at grammar school that still had inkwells with dried up blue crud in them.

My brother, who went there two years before me, was expected to have a geometry set with ink nibs. By the time I arrived two years later, we were allowed to use pencil in geometry.

Biros were still anathema, even when I left in 1970 at the age of 18 having failed two 'A' levels which included two orbits of the lower sixth

 

[Greg Elmassian]

I assume "brio" means ink pen, like kleenex means tissue?

 

[PhilP]

I assume "brio" means ink pen, like kleenex means tissue?

'Biro' means a ball-point ink pen.
'Brio' is a specific brand-name of a wooden train system. - But is also used 'generically' like 'hoover' for suction cleaners.

 

[Greg Elmassian]

'Biro' means a ball-point ink pen.
'Brio' is a specific brand-name of a wooden train system. - But is also used 'generically' like 'hoover' for suction cleaners.

One of my old girlfriends said her college nickname was hoover.... I'm so confused!

 

[Rhinochugger]

I assume "brio" means ink pen, like kleenex means tissue?

Biro was the Hungarian inventor of the ball-point pen.

We were only allowed to use fountain pens - can't say that my handwriting was improved in any way - it's still pretty rough, even I can't read it

 

[Paul M]

One of my old girlfriends said her college nickname was hoover.... I'm so confused!

I'm intrigued....why was she called Hoover, or is the reason far to "delicate" for this family forum?

 

[Greg Elmassian]

delicate yes.... great for a girlfriend though...

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