Testing the TK Tar Baby

[picowatt]

TK,

I saw that and just let it slide.  I am not easily goaded.  I truly appreciated the reposting of the drawing.

My brain is trained to filter out digs and jabs, insinuation, sarcasm, cynicism, denegration, etc. (and red glowy text).  Makes life much more pleasant.

Besides, such things are more often a reflection of the user, not the target. 

PW

TK,

You're a "piker"?  Dang, let me tell you about the fencepost I caught one time.

PW

[TinselKoala]

@PW: I presume you are using Linux or Windows. Right click on the image, select "save image as..." and save it to your system somewhere. Then when you want to upload it, look at the bottom of the reply window where it says "attach" and browse to the image on your system.
Alternatively you can link to the post where the image appears by right-clicking on the post title just above the message number, select "copy" and then paste the resulting url into your message.
A "screenshot" tool is also very handy.

[picowatt]

TK,

No response?  Possibly a poor attempt at humor on my part.

Pike, fishing, get it?

Everybody groan...

PW

[picowatt]

@PW: I presume you are using Linux or Windows. Right click on the image, select "save image as..." and save it to your system somewhere. Then when you want to upload it, look at the bottom of the reply window where it says "attach" and browse to the image on your system.
Alternatively you can link to the post where the image appears by right-clicking on the post title just above the message number, select "copy" and then paste the resulting url into your message.
A "screenshot" tool is also very handy.

TK,

Thanks for that.  I considered doing the save as and then attaching, but was not sure if the image would display or just the link.

Very helpful, thanks again,

PW

[TinselKoala]

TK,

No response?  Possibly a poor attempt at humor on my part.

Pike, fishing, get it?

Everybody groan...

PW

Ahhh.... I was working up a nice story about "biker" catching a fence... like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape..... I've never fished for a pike, we have largemouth bass around here.

By the way, I got the old RM503 up and running perfectly. The fault was HV insulation breakdown in the 6.3 volt secondary winding of the line transformer that powers the CRT filament.... and which is floated to -3000 volts by a HV power supply running off yet another transformer in the regulated supplies section. So I installed a cheap Radio Shack 6.3 volt transformer, running the primary in parallel with the original and simply running the CRT filament with its HV off of the Radio Shack transformer. I found room inside the box for it, and it's burning in now, has been running fine for a couple of hours.

450 kHz bandwidth, and the slowest timebase setting is 5 seconds per centimeter !

It has a lovely persistent blue phosphor (optimized for film photography they say) and an orange graticle illuminator. And I spell it that way because I want to.

A genuine classic, the Tektronix RM503.