18-01-2016, 02:15 PM
I believe that many shops made up kits of components for people wanting to build the radio. But I was -1 in 1972, so can't really comment. And although my parents brought me the book (along with Simple Electronics), they wouldn't buy me the components to allow me to actually build anything! This meant that I spent too obsessively long dreaming about building stuff, and that led to me taking apart things for components - things that were already working perfectly well! I had a soldering iron for my 5th birthday, so extracting components was easy for me, but of course, they didn't have the long leads needed to work with the bread-board, and attaching wires to extend was just ugly. Still, I guess it wasn't a bad start...
People have been selling kits in relatively recent times: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ladybird-Trans...0474963750 - naturally, a few substitutions have to be made, but that's not unrealistic in electronics at the best of times.
People have been selling kits in relatively recent times: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ladybird-Trans...0474963750 - naturally, a few substitutions have to be made, but that's not unrealistic in electronics at the best of times.
