Pre-forming part leads

[PRR]

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[bmccowan]

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.

[shooter]

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!"
 

[EL34]

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




Two sided - 4 different body widths

[PRR]

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.

Likewise if you want to make several amplifiers 99% the same, a jig may get the work done quicker.

[shooter]

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


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

[bmccowan]

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

[shooter]

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

[bmccowan]

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?

[shooter]

WTF happened to country music, eh?

you could just say, with confidence;
 

WTF happened

 
you'll have the answer to both ?'s