[BC] FM10K

[James B. Potter]

Richard:

In most of the radio factories at which I worked, manufacturing engineering
figures out how to build the product, but not to make modifications.   It
would be design engineering that eliminated the spark gaps in my experience.

Regards/J

> A common problem ... Apparently "manufacturing engineering" at various
companies decided they were not necessary and eliminated them....

Ain't that the truth!  Want to name names? 

>However, many of these copies by low-level competitors had basic physics,
electrostatics, and mathematics ignored. Eventually there were no