Eddie Haskel wrote:

Rumor has it that QST featured an article in a January/1930 or

January/1935

issue on the subject of homebrew transmitter crystals - how cut, lap,

and

mount them. If anyone has QST on CDROM for those years, I'd sure

appreciate

if you could take a look.


Ah yes..the good 'ol days of grinding FT-243 Xtals with toothpaste(or
comet)to go up, and writing on the blank with #2 pencil lead to take them
down a few Kilocycles....Eddie



No, the good _really_ 'ol days of taking a chunk of quartz, whacking
pieces off of it with a mud saw, hand lapping the saw marks off and
mounting it in a home-made holder. That namby-pamby FT-243 wasn't
invented until just before WW-II.

The same magazine has an article about the blind ham who built his own
equipment. Soldering by feel. There were giants in those days...

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com