asgardshill
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- Jul 20, 2009
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Then why did they buy you a TV? They should have made you freakin build yourself one!
They were afraid I'd murder myself on the high voltage/flyback/back of the picture tube. It would have made an interesting story to tell CPS though (or whatever the equivalent was in 1969). I blundered into enough AC just building the radios to make my hair permanently stand on end ala Don King.
I also must confess, a few months after I got the heathkit, I WON a little 8 inch Zenith b/w TV on a radio call-in contest! So alot of the incentive I had to build the heathkit was gone. But I plodded on ahead anyway. It was a 14 inch, after all!
Good call. Even before Viagra, the American consumer has always been obsessed by bigger.