I did a lot of caddy searching, and may have had some sections of a few of the tube substitution manuals memorized. Instead of going fishing together, my Dad and I ran service calls and picked up sets that had to come into the shop. We did antenna towers together too, and I always got the crummy jobs like running lead in wire through crawl spaces, and putting the 10 foot masts in the top of the towers. It was really fun though, I guess because I was doing it with my Dad. I just wish I'd paid more attention, but when he'd start looking at a schematic, I'd get bored pretty fast. One thing that still haunts me is when he got out of the business he offered me his stock, scopes, jigs, everything, and I turned it all down. Man, to have just his junk set parts pile would be crazy today, arghhhh. Oh, I do have a couple of his old Simpson 260s, one of which has the roll top case, mirrored scale, and little white reset button. I still use that one to read "run through" Ma in conjunction with a variac on new power supplies. Something about watching that needle is easier when you have 4 or 5 things you are trying to monitor at the same time.