Yikes! that’s far too long! What’s the hold up? I’m waiting on: I’ve been trying to NOT start new projects until these are finished. You know what happens when you…

So…. yeah. I thought I’d jump into this 1980 Pioneer KP-6500 car stereo. I mean, it sort of worked, I had one channel of audio. GREAT. Let’s open her up…

I figured I’d dust off my little collection of vintage calculators from the mid 1970’s up through the mid 1980’s and have a look at them. As they say, three…

In this video I grab these two ancient bits of aviation technology from the 1940’s. They are vacuum tube radios specifically designed for aviation use as navigation aids. You’d dial…

I think this one turned out pretty well, despite running into a stupid error that had me scratching my head for a while. This (I think) came out in 1939,…

I picked up this little (well its fairly big actually) vacuum tube radio from my local Goodwill for $11. I remember the person at checkout “keep your receipt in case…

Why “Amateur Hour?” Because like an idiot I thought I could just fire up my scope and it would just do what I wanted. No. I forgot that this stupid…

If your R-2000 suddenly goes deaf, here’s a likely (and pretty easy) fix for it. The strange attenuator control gets dirty. All you need to do it open it up,…

Just let loose this one where I futz around with a pair of essentially useless old bits of test equipment: A Century Capacitor and Resistor Analyzer Model 201, and a…

It’s that time again. Yes, again. Time to just shut down a whole slew of projects that didn’t go anywhere. I’m not even going to tell you what the are/were,…