I didn't sit down with my father like that but my parents encouraged me taking things apart, anything old mechanical or electrical I loved taking apart seeing how things worked inside.
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I didnt sit with my father either....my parents didnt encourage me to take things apart, but I did love to see the inner workings.....
All through my childhood days had a keen interest on electronics, I remember building my first crystal radio that came in kit form and needed soldering together...Not being dissuaded by this, I 'cobbled' it together ang got it to work much to my father's surprise...
He was so pleased he went out and bought a soldering iron to complete the job!....
I got a paper round and saved the money from that to buy my first multimeter that cost 50 shillings...£2-50 in todays money but that was way back when I was about 11...( before pre-decimalisation anyway)....
I served an apprenticeship as an Instrument Artificer at ICI ( a big petrochems complex at the time...) dabbled a lot with repairing radios and televisions...went to work in South Africa and ended up working for a tv repair company after impressing them with my diagnostic skills but left to go contract working which was more lucrative.......Returned to the UK and started repairing and selling ex-rental tv sets to make a few bob....
Nowadays, I play around at home with rc aeroplanes, my workshop full of toys (lathe mill bandsaw that sort of thing) dont so much electronics anymore...I guess at 51 I'm a little late in the day to play catch up with all that's happened since the advent of pics and avr micros.....
zzzzzzzz......Hey wake up at the back I aint finished!!
Well that's me.....
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