Wagner Lipnharski wrote:
>
> Mark Willis wrote:
> >   Real tech's use a thumbnail for wire stripping - any dentist will tell
> > you, teeth shouldn't be used for wire stripping.  LOL!
>
> ... using teeth, and after half hour stripping a 500 pair phone cable,
> the real tech would be chewing a huge ball of wire insulation,
> multi-color, all that nice plastic taste, like a real pro that never
> spits it out. :)
>
> ... after few months of that work, the real tech would not have a 6-pack
> for the saturday afternoon games on TV, instead a nice 4 feet of the
> same 500 pair cable... what a rush!  stripping one inch per second. :)
>
> ... he develops a inauspicious ability to test 9V batteries in the
> tongue, and his Fluke multimeter has a nice piece of AWG#14 wire in
> place of the 100mA fuse.
>
> ... transformer temperature measurement with a thermocouple? nahhh, it
> goes by sound, by the humming.
>
> ... transistor pinout in a pocket book drawing? nahhh, plug it one way,
> than another, until it works.
>
> ... scotch tape never hurts when insulating 400Vac connectors.
>
> ... lacking soldering iron? no problem, heating a nail with a lighter
> solved several problems.
>
> ... carbonized resistor? can't read the value? no problem, nothing that
> a 10k resistor can't solve.

Hmmm...

>
> ... a real tech is a master, a real magician in the field, his mind and
> fingers are slick as a fast snake in the jungle, he sees a solution much
> before the customer sees the problem, he saves the world every 10
> minutes, and he sleeps like a baby at night.  His workstation is full of
> electronic components here and there, mixed with lots of diskettes and
> paper, nobody knows how can he find anything there, but he does.

Hmmm...

> He has
> a little tinny empty space on the table, 4 x 3 inches, right in front
> the keyboard, where he uses to do hand writing.

Looks like you know one of my friends ... :)

>  The company's president
> knows him by his first name, and he addresses the president as "buddy".
> His world is a jungle, and he likes it that way, a place where a poor
> engineer can not survive.
>
> ... but he will never be able to buy Armani.
>
> Wagner

Having a friend who is geting the majority of components he use for his
private lab-bench-work from old tv-sets, computers, etc.

He did work for serveral years at HAMEG ( major german supplier for scopes etc.
)
designing analog electronics.

It's the kind of guy who can build a 2.4 GHz osc. just by guessing the component
s.

on the other hand - he's still having problems in finding girl-friends :-(

Kind regards ...

        Stefan