[Thursday] Setting up a radio workshop

[Chris Prata]

Hi Ken,  I'm pretty sure his site is where I got the idea to have a master switch on my little workshop at home.

Also my own personal equipment list which seems to do really well so far came from a friend who restores radios commercially. When I visited his lab I took a picture and wrote down notes as to what he used on the bench.

One amazing tool that I have found indispensable is a hakko 808 desoldering vacuum gun. What an amazing instrument!

+1 on lighting. I have several metal clip lights pointing at the bench from different angles and they have 100 watt equivalent LED bulbs in them.

Also, Testors model paints of many colors with Q-tips. That was indispensable for color coding wires as I removed each RF section from an sx-28 radio to replace the capacitors.

Probably 6 months ago now I published an entire list of what I have I'll do that again when I get home.

Chris








On November 22, 2019 6:07:12 AM Ken Carr via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

Steven Johnson has a radio workshop.
He has shared online his ideas about setting up a workbench.
https://stevenjohnson.com/basics.htm

He also sells Sams Photofacts folders from the years 1946-1963.
We are not likely to need these since I suspect they are already in
our collection. We found the first volume yesterday. We also have
volumes 1-17 of thr Rider Perpetual Troubleshooters manuals that
go back to the early 1920’s. All of the above are now in the shop
in the wireless building.




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