I need to check the OP to be sure, but I don't think we've had "you know you're a TE addict when you use a new toothbrush to clean rusty transistors rather than your teeth".
Tesco website is a bit fooked atm, DDOS? Needed more toothbrushes...
Had all the topside boards out of the 5245L, gently cleaned (not gently enough, a rusty transistor leg broke, plugging the Metcal in right now), adjusted some clearances (some of those TO-5 case were, shall we say, inadvertently thermally coupled?).
Swapped some display boards around, and as soon as I've fixed that tranny leg on the A18 display board I'll give it a burl.
Who uses their teeth to clean transistors?
Same people that use their teeth to strip wire insulation.
I got cured of that habit as a teenager when I used my teeth to strip a bit of zip cord. Only to find my brother had plugged the other end in to a 240V outlet with out me noticing.
That hurt
And your still here to tell the tale, were you standing on a nice thick rubber mat by any chance at the time?
Nope in my bedroom, standing by the door (behind which was the socket the lead was plugged into. I woke up on the other side of the room with the bitten off end of the zip cord in my mouth. This was mid seventies so wired fuses in the consumer units, RCDs were unheard of.
I was very lucky. I had a sore jaw and could not taste anything for bout a week though.