JAY EMRIE wrote in a message to PETER MAY:

PM> JE> I can still remember the first radio I built:
PM> JE> Wound a coil myself, used a lead crystal for a diode and a pair of
PM> JE> headsets. Of course this was just recently - in 1942!
PM>I still find myself collecting lumps of galena for crystal sets
PM>that I never
PM>build.

 JE> Old habits die hard!  VBG

Like collecting odd size cardboard tubes because they are about the right
size for a coil former.

Not to mention metal plate variable capacitors of all sizes or buying 2000
ohm ex miltary headphones. These things are cheap and always found in the
enthusiasts junkbox.
A bought an old seachest full of these things 15 years ago for $20, you
just dont see that sort of stuff around any more.
The crystal sets I made as a kid used to sound so sweet, although my first
ones had selectivity problems, later ones I adopted the tapped tuning coil
principal.

Regards,
Peter 
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+