Top reasons you know your an "Amp Builder"

[cbass]

Tinning stranded wire makes you feel morally superior

If your really superior you'd have topcoat wire

[amplifiednation]

You don't find it funny when you hear someone say 'DC Voltage can't kill you'

[Phil_S]

You contemplate installing dzus 1/4 turn aircraft fasteners for the chassis mounting hardware--it will be much quicker to get in and swap the 100pf cap with a 250pf.

...but you don't want to install a switch to retain both caps because you don't want to bugger up the panel.

[amplifiednation]

You can hold your DMM probes like chopsticks.

[Bob S]

When looking at Larry - Distortion's cabs causes a dampness in certain areas.

[Smokebreak]

You contemplate installing dzus 1/4 turn aircraft fasteners for the chassis mounting hardware--it will be much quicker to get in and swap the 100pf cap with a 250pf.

...but you don't want to install a switch to retain both caps because you don't want to bugger up the panel.

....but you still stare at it for an hour and think, "Is this worth my time?"

[Reeltarded]

I actually woke myself up a couple times with phrases like "four seventy kay".

No idea. Must be a code.

[NickC]

yellow violet yellow

[Smokebreak]

You are outside at 8:54am in 30deg drilling holes for a term strip in your express to turn it into an 800 b/c you couldn't get it quite right, and you don't want to wake your wife, cause she will surely think you are crazy.

[johnnyreece]

You are outside at 8:54am in 30deg drilling holes for a term strip in your express to turn it into an 800 b/c you couldn't get it quite right, and you don't want to wake your wife, cause she will surely think you are crazy.

Or out at 9:00 PM in -5 degrees to file the rough edges on your cake pan chassis (yes, I was doing that last night).

[John_P_WI]

When you can eloquently string several sentences together of non-related curse words for stepping on a the bent lead of a resistor hiding in the carpet with your barefoot. Piercing the skin and firmly implanting itself in said foot.

[Smokebreak]

When you can eloquently string several sentences together of non-related curse words for stepping on a the bent lead of a resistor hiding in the carpet with your barefoot. Piercing the skin and firmly implanting itself in said foot.

Wow this was my next one, but I was gonna with " instead of adhering to the schedule of testing your blood sugar the old fashioned way..."

[Smokebreak]

You are outside at 8:54am in 30deg drilling holes for a term strip in your express to turn it into an 800 b/c you couldn't get it quite right, and you don't want to wake your wife, cause she will surely think you are crazy.

Or out at 9:00 PM in -5 degrees to file the rough edges on your cake pan chassis (yes, I was doing that last night).

Or even worse, doing it inside, because you need to vaccuum about 50 1/2" pieces of PVC up anyways

[xtian]

You get an inflated sense of self worth when explaining to people how "valves" work.

And/or you think less of people because they don't know how "valves" work.

[rp]

Pretty much all applies to me, now I know I'm normal - or normal enough.

I just ordered an OT from RJ, I feel like on waiting on a hot date to arrive.