{"id":1536,"date":"2011-06-16T15:35:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2011-06-16T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:35:28","slug":"new-group-w-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/new-group-w-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"New Group “W” Bench….."},"content":{"rendered":"

During the period of time that Mr. Jek<\/strong><\/em> was growing up, we would be constantly working on building projects – Models, electronic kits, any and everything, so, we needed a semi-permanet work space….. I had an old Samsonite<\/strong> card table and we named it ” The Group “W” Bench”<\/strong><\/em>….. Why?<\/em>….. If you can’t figure it out, listen to “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”<\/em> by Arlo Guthrie<\/strong><\/em>, or watch the movie “Alice’s Restaurant”<\/em>…….<\/p>\n

Now, this wasn’t just a normal card table…… Jek<\/strong><\/em> built what we called a “Tub Adjust”<\/strong> circuit ON<\/strong><\/em> the table…. We had a friend that Jek<\/strong><\/em> could irritate on command, and Jek claims he could “Adjust”<\/em> his attitude with the “Tub Adjust”<\/strong>….. It seemed to work somewhat, and, it was fun to play with if you had become frustrated with whatever project you were working on and needed a break….. It was basically an IC chip, a LED, an adjustable on-off pot, a battery holder, and a bunch of hook-up wire<\/em>…. This wasn’t<\/em> mounted on a circuit board, he soldered it directly<\/em> to the table….. As you know, vinyl, solder, and a hot soldering iron combine in curious way<\/em>…. The “Tub Adjust”<\/strong> naturally became a permanent component of the Group “W” Bench<\/strong><\/em>….. Many projects saw completion and\/or destruction on the table….. It was finally retired to an outdoor firing range in Seminole, OK<\/strong> where it was used as a cleaning and firing table….. Unfortunately, it was left out in the Oklahoma<\/strong> weather once too much and the top deteriorated<\/em> to the point that we have to use a piece of plywood on top, but, it is still alive and well…..<\/p>\n

Enough background…..<\/strong><\/em> Lately I have been going through all the 40 or so years of stuff I have in storage and decided I need a new Group “W” Bench<\/strong><\/em> that I could set-up when I needed to work on some of the cool vintage stuff that I hadn’t seen in years….. Hence, let me present to you, without further ado, THE NEW GROUP “W” BENCH<\/strong><\/em>…… Everyone should have one<\/em>….. Oh, Yeah, Jek<\/strong><\/em>, I need you to draw me a schematic of the “Tub Adjust”<\/strong><\/em> circuit…. Got to have one!….<\/em>.
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\nYeah, I know, I dripped paint on it and tried to wipe it up, but, I expect it to see a lot of action in the next month, year, Hell, maybe the next Lifetime<\/em> – I’ll pass it on to Jek<\/strong><\/em>….. \u00c2\u00a0Here’s part of your inheritance, Jek<\/strong><\/em>, along with the OU<\/strong><\/em> watch…… \u00c2\u00a0Boy, are you LUCKY!…..<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the period of time that Mr. Jek was growing up, we would be constantly working on building projects – Models, electronic kits, any and everything, so, we needed a semi-permanet work space….. I had an old Samsonite card table and we named it ” The Group “W” Bench”….. Why?….. If you can’t figure it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,2,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}