Ha. That's takes me right back to '66.

I was so keen to put the radio together I did not bother with understanding
resistor colour codes, I just banged anything in for the resistors. Then
one of the electroylitics went "Bang!". Happy days.

Heheheh. My take on that was to figure that all those resistors and caps in a
2 stage AF amp were not really needed to make it work, they just made it work
*better*. So.....I ended up building a 2 stage direct coupled amp before I
even knew what direct coupled was......till one of the transistors got so hot
it went BANG!
--Sigh-- To recapture some of that wide eyed "Will it work!?" Do kids even
think that way today? My experience says no.

Bob WB0POQ