Greetings to this replay of a RAIN Report from 2017, read by Will Rogers, K5WLR.

[Total playing time is 10M35S with a station break at 6M31S.]

If you built electronic kits while growing up, especially those marketed by HeathKit, chances are you used a small plastic too called a Nut Starter. Did you know HeathKit did not manufacture the Nut Starter? A young man named John Brake sold tools to HeathKit, one of which was the erstwhile Nut Starter. So what happened to John Brake? And the little tool that could’’’and still does? John is CEO of Desko Industries Inc. in Chino, California. RAIN’S Hap Holly, KC9RP, caught up to John to piece together the Nut Starter story.

For more information about Desko Industries Inc., go to www.Mendapump.com.

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Very 73 from RAIN. KEEP ON HAMMING!

The RAIN Hamcast Podcast #100 will post 10-28-2023.

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