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Amp Stuff => AmpTools/Tech Tips => Topic started by: PRR on March 07, 2022, 12:01:28 pm

Title: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: PRR on March 07, 2022, 12:01:28 pm

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Title: Re: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: bmccowan on March 09, 2022, 07:37:38 am

The plastic lead benders that Doug sells work great for some bends for resistor leads, but this is a cool idea for making bends for terminal strips the way Valco and others did their circuits. But what really made me chuckle was "dime stores." Now they are Dollar Stores.

Title: Re: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: shooter on March 09, 2022, 08:58:51 am

around here they were called the "5 & dime stores"  As I'm typing I started chuckling thinking "they were Nickle and diming me to death!"
 :laugh:

Title: Re: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: EL34 on March 09, 2022, 01:04:05 pm

I have been using these for 30 years.
https://hoffmanamps.com/MyStore/catalog/Tools.htm




Two sided - 4 different body widths


(https://hoffmanamps.com/MyStore/catalog/images/IMG_2367.jpg)

Title: Re: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: PRR on March 09, 2022, 02:56:35 pm

The plastic wedges are great for standard parts and bends.

The dime-store brads on a board also allow you to mark for trimming. If things get strange and you want 3 or 4 bends, you can do that.

The idea was extended to entire aircraft wiring harnesses. Make one on a prototype plane, take it out to the shed, brad it on a board. Now a worker or three can be assembling complete harnesses on a bench or wall rather than working around riveters and painters inside the plane out in the assembly hanger.
(https://www.assemblymag.com/ext/resources/Issues/2016/April/aircraftWiring/asb0416lectromec6.jpg?t=1461939389&width=900)
Likewise if you want to make several amplifiers 99% the same, a jig may get the work done quicker.

Title: Re: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: shooter on March 09, 2022, 05:01:03 pm

.....then I get a call, hey, the pigtail showed up   :laugh:
12hours later after tracing out 2 swapped wires and a mis-labeled connector  :BangHead:


when GE "refined" the install process, Instead of me, some books and 6 weeks, they went to Physical installers, 3-5days
cablers 3-5 days, Field engineer 2 weeks.  after 2 years of "learnin" it was a better system

Title: Re: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: bmccowan on March 09, 2022, 08:14:31 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWNE1ebf2Mg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWNE1ebf2Mg)

Title: Re: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: shooter on March 10, 2022, 05:27:34 am

Now that's the world when the world was sane, made up of hard workin 5 n dimers!  :icon_biggrin:
thanks

Title: Re: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: bmccowan on March 11, 2022, 09:23:20 pm

That great song was written by Shaver and covered by many:
Waylon
Willie
Jerry Jeff
Tom T
Emmylou
and many more.
WTF happened to country music, eh?

Title: Re: Pre-forming part leads
Post by: shooter on March 12, 2022, 03:31:00 am

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WTF happened to country music, eh?

:thumbsup:
you could just say, with confidence;
 

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WTF happened

 
you'll have the answer to both ?'s :cussing: