Heath glory

[Randy Kaeding]

I was a service technician for Heath from 1970 through 1974, and I got to
the point I would believe anything.

I saw one shortwave receiver that was sent in because the builder couldn't
get the cabinet on it. He had mounted the tube sockets on the bottom of the
circuit board, and they stuck out past the bottom edge of the chassis.

I worked on one stereo amplifier (AR-13?) which used the larger type power
transistors with two offset pins and a mounting hole one one end. The two
pins pass through two corresponding offset holes in a large heatsink and
into a socket. Rather than rotate the transistors 180 degrees to match up
the pins with the holes in the heatsink and socket, the builder carefully
bent the pins in two right angles so they would fit backwards.

Then there was the case where someone tried to dry their cat in a microwave.
Enough said on that one!

We, also had a couple of technicians who went overboard on repairs. One I
recall actually replaced capacitors soley because the lettering on them was
a little crooked.

Randy, K8TMK
"One of the Hams (still) at Heathkit"


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark S Graalman" <wb8jkr at JUNO.COM>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: Heath glory


>   PLEASE TELL US YOU'RE KIDDING !!!!!!!
>
> Mark  WB8JKR
>
>
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:58:17 EDT John Barkow <KD6PT at AOL.COM> writes:
> > Hi Gang;
> > This is the best one I have seen.  Many years ago, a friend of mine
> > decided
> > to build a Heathkit receiver.  I told him the follow the
> > instructions exactly
> > and he would have no problems.  Several weeks later, he called me
> > and said
> > that it seemed to be working okey but sure smelled funny.  I asked
> > him to
> > bring it over and I would take a look at it.  When I opened it up
> > there was a
> > huge glob of burned substance around many of the wires.  When I
> > asked him
> > what it was, he said it was (Spaghetti). Whenever the instructions
> > called out
> > for putting spaghetti on a wire, he had cooked up  some real
> > spaghetti and
> > covered the wires with.it.  After a littile cleanup and re-doing
> > some wires,
> > the unit worked fine.
> >
>
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