DYMO goes back to 1958. By 1964 they were running ads in specialty magazines.
My first electronic projects had DYMO labels for the switches and knobs, affixed to BUDD box enclosures that I bought mailorder from Lafayette Radio in Syosset, Long Island.. I told myself those projects looked exactly like Barney Collier's custom built creations on Mission: IMPOSSIBLE
but I knew it was a lie
but I knew it was a lie
I found one in our junk room at work - with a bit of blue tape in it too. And yea, everyone uses the P-Touch.
Luv'd those things - especially when you had cranked through a longish label name - and it'd partial advance 1/2 a space on the very last letter, making it collide with the 2nd to last...to give it that "pro finish" touch.
My first commercial projects in 68/69 : dancing lights controllers, rhythmic flashes, and a guitar Treble Booster sported blue anodized aluminum cases and Dymo labels.
All holes started with a 6mm capacity hand cranked drill and then filed up to necessary shape and size.
PCBs made using "home females" stolen nail enamel and and ferric chloride I had to buy in "stone" form and dissolve myself. BIG mess and clothes destruction.
First customers found them "most professional" and couldn´t believe I had made them myself.
All holes started with a 6mm capacity hand cranked drill and then filed up to necessary shape and size.
PCBs made using "home females" stolen nail enamel and and ferric chloride I had to buy in "stone" form and dissolve myself. BIG mess and clothes destruction.
First customers found them "most professional" and couldn´t believe I had made them myself.
🙂
I used stencil correction fluid and Ferric Chloride powder for my first PCBs...
Stencils were used in duplicating machines, tube of thick ink.
Still have my label embosser somewhere, not used for nearly 25 years....'Letro', Indian make, got in 1983 from Bombay Stationery Mart on Pherozeshah Mehta Road, in the Fort area. That shop is long gone.
Some people I know got scrap furniture from the ship breaking yards in Alang, all the drawers were marked like this, they got lots of tools too.
I used stencil correction fluid and Ferric Chloride powder for my first PCBs...
Stencils were used in duplicating machines, tube of thick ink.
Still have my label embosser somewhere, not used for nearly 25 years....'Letro', Indian make, got in 1983 from Bombay Stationery Mart on Pherozeshah Mehta Road, in the Fort area. That shop is long gone.
Some people I know got scrap furniture from the ship breaking yards in Alang, all the drawers were marked like this, they got lots of tools too.
PRR, you are taking me down memory lane this week,haha!
I got rid of the DYMO long ago and moved right on up to a Scott Signgraver SM-300, which I am still using for making control panels and tags. Unfortunately, everything I make looks like some cold-war era leftover...well, that and the Nixie tubes. Still better than the old Pryor stamp set and paint filling.
I got rid of the DYMO long ago and moved right on up to a Scott Signgraver SM-300, which I am still using for making control panels and tags. Unfortunately, everything I make looks like some cold-war era leftover...well, that and the Nixie tubes. Still better than the old Pryor stamp set and paint filling.