Shiva wrote:

"Patrick Turner" wrote in message
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Shiva wrote:

"Patrick Turner" wrote

Right, not everyone is a hard ass.
So what led you to the unatural crazy world of electronics?

Patrick Turner.


I dunno. I actually sat and thought about this for 10 mins, trying to
figure out just what makes me like electronics, and couldn't think of a good
answer.

I wrecked lotsa stuff, or what seemed to be junk,
and the problem I see now, but not then, was that our fathers had
no care about us wrecking things.
If I was a dad, I'd be asking what did you do today son?
Pulled an alarm clock apart dad.
So can you get it back together?
now that's the bit that I missed.

This is the best i could think up: Always likebreaking /building
stuff since I could remember. By the time I was 4 i was dragging junk TV
chassis home, ripping them apart (conning my grandma into helping me with
the tight screws & stuff), without knowing what all the stuff did - just
looked neat. Same with mechanical stuff. Maybe some people are born with
the *geek* part of the brain bein' dominant?

I think I was taken by 'things', rather than people.

I never remember names or
phone #'s, but i can still quote all the basic clearances & torques on a 356
motor, even though it must have been 10 yrs since I touched one. Maybe it's
also some kind of a mental hangup - when i see some chunks of electronic
gear, or machine shop gear, i get weird fascination /obsession /lust usually
reserved for ... well, enough.

Its the wonderment. maybe its the irish genes.

Old radios fasinated me more deeply when I
started playing with transmitters.

But women, studies, work as a trainee builder,
and motorbikes and folk music and the pub took over electronics,
which became boring.

But women don't mean much now, I don't want to go to university,
and I got crook knees from building, which then becaome boring after 30 years,
and I have a hopeless voice, and I ain't musically gifted,
and then I saw a guy who had his own business doing audio things,
and I said to myself, I can do that, and I had this vision of where I would be
in 5 years, and that was it, I transfered from one trade to another.
Trouble is I haven't made any profit from the hand crafting side of my
activities.
One can knw a heck of a lot, but it takes much more than technical skill to
build a commercially expanding, and thriving company.
It takes capital, and other pairs of hands to help, it cannot be done
alone.
Maybe in 1955, sure, because there just were not many affordable amps
around, and if you could build an amp, you were in demand.

But the competition is now daunting.

I make a few bits of gear as I go, and I like the interest I have,
and I don't mind not having the driving ambitions of a 30 yr old.

Patrick Turner.



-dim