Something to lighten the mood

There actually are ACME stores!
Well of course! When I was a boy, Acme was the store we didn't shop at (despite being much closer) because they sold my mom a load of fatty bones as chops. She wrote a letter. The Acme manager actually came to the house to make amends, and brought---- a fruit basket! You can't grow three young boys on fruit!!! (Or so we thought in those carnivore days.) It was all A&P after that, but A&P was halfway down that century-long slide into mediocrity.
 
It is ... unless your Day Job is couching for Wyle E. Coyote that is 🙂

As of:
There actually are ACME stores!

https://www.acmestores.com/page/128

However the one mentioned here would be the one owned by Roadrunner Industries!

hurry up!!!!

they have on special sale (2 for the price of 1) the full pack of Blue-White-Black paint,specially approved by the Highway Authority to paint roads and tunnels.

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That´s my BIG beef with Simulation software.
You throw nonsense numbers at them and they reply with even more nonsense numbers, with a stone face.
It's why I measure everything before use in a simulation. For instance the Toroidy TG-EL84PSE in the same setup measures to a high degree according to the specs, including leakage inductance. I only had to introduce a very small change in the coupling to reproduce the transfer function. When such verification doesn't make sense or is too cumbersome, I use equivalent components in a simulation. That procedure works very well, hence my surprise when measuring a toroid made for power supply (240V CT to 24V CT) that supposedly could be used in a PP amp.
 
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Sometimes brand names are poorly chosen; I picked up a dozen of these for 50 cents each, they made great presents for our garage and handyman friends. They were hopeless quality, with soft metal and poor fit!

Now, people can say 'hand me that f - - - g spanner, will you!'

Geoff
 

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