{"id":130,"date":"2012-04-28T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T02:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tubetime.us\/?p=130"},"modified":"2012-04-28T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T02:33:07","slug":"still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/2012\/04\/28\/still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it&#8217;s been a few months since my last post. Sorry for the blog silence. I got very busy with a new job and just haven&#8217;t had the time to work on projects at all, let alone blog!<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a quick one&#8211;it&#8217;s a Heathkit GC-1005 digital clock that uses Panaplex displays (Neon filled). I picked it up at the electronics flea market and it looked like someone had been trying to get it working before me, and they left a bit of a mess. I had to clean up the wiring job and check the electrolytics to make sure they were still good (they were).<\/p>\n<p>The reason it wasn&#8217;t working right is that some of the component leads on the bottom of the PC board had poked through a paper insulator and shorted out against the switch contacts on the bottom of the case. All I had to do was trim the component leads and fix the insulator.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Heathkit GC-1005 Clock by eschlaep, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tubetime\/6977007660\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7221\/6977007660_2ccc8c835b.jpg\" alt=\"Heathkit GC-1005 Clock\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, it&#8217;s been a few months since my last post. Sorry for the blog silence. I got very busy with a new job and just haven&#8217;t had the time to work on projects at all, let alone blog! So here&#8217;s a quick one&#8211;it&#8217;s a Heathkit GC-1005 digital clock that uses Panaplex displays (Neon filled). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80Z1r-26","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tubetime.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}