Dear All,
I was cleaning up the warehouse yesterday and had an inspiration, and took this photo. Being mostly (probably all) men here, what are you favorite tools and IWC for the job? Carpentry tools? Dive gear? Watch making station? Snap-on tool set? Aviation gear? Racing helmet?
I'll play. Maybe not the kind of tools you mean, and I forgot to take my watch off and put it in the picture, but here you go. Some of the tools I use most often, and a few examples of what I use them for.
steven
Wow interesting, old radio/tv tubes, a soldering iron and an HAMEG oscilloscope.
Not mainstream for the majority of the forum :-)
But I like those items, they shift my thoughts one generation back.
But you will need the fitting watch of that time too :-)
Sometimes I use a slices triode, an old HF Tube, to open watches with power straps.
Regards
HEBE
I build guitar amplifiers. In addition to electronics, this requires rudimentary metalworking skills and woodworking skills at least to the level of making half-blind dovetails. So I also have quite a few specialized metalworking tools (punches, nibblers ...) as well as the woodworking tools. I couldn't do anything without a good router. I also have a large collection of tubes.
Here's one - this time, with watch -
steven
Love it Steven!
Any famous endorsements?
Navigation tools.
Ah, an amplifier with tubes.
Would be interesting - at least for me - to see the components inside as well.
Those tubes have a special sound character.
Always stunning to see your navigation tool collection !
Awesome!!
Sure. I don't have much on my hard disk, but here's one I built four years ago.
This is based on a Fender AB763 Twin, two channels, reverb and tremolo, four 6L6s making about 80 watts RMS.
Surveillance tools.
Thanks for the inside photo.
Handcrafted electronics. Looks like metal film resistors to reduce the noise ?
Yeah. Dale RN65 mil spec, 1%. A lot of builders like to use carbon comp, but I find they add more hiss than anything else. Caps in this build are Xicons. In simpler circuits I use fancier caps.
You're not Haebbe from TubeTown, are you?
No, I am not Haebbe !
My profession has to do with with microwaves, LTE, etc.
So, those old tubes are just nostalgy for me and I did not use my soldering iron since more then 20 years :-)
But always interesting to see those analog tools in our digital world.
And another high frequency tube, a Klystron, which I use sometimes as a tool for watch opening :-)
