Tim is a member here.
As has been said before, if you put your work in a public venue, it is open for comments/criticism.
The first thing he was criticized about was using hot melt glue to attach heat-sinks to devices that....well get hot, not a real good idea.
He admitted he has no formal education about electronics.
He also admitted the he resourced the internet for most of his knowledge about radio ( see thread where he admitted he had been schooled by L/C about some of his work) and one of the most telling things he said himself was that he "tuned" radio`s by ear not using proper test equipment.
I am sure he has Happy customers, after all, some CB operators are not educated enough to know how to use the front control's on a CB radio, much less work on the inside of them and there is a market there for someone to do that, there are truck stop CB shops across the nation that do it daily.
Quote from L/C:
I gave you the mod to get rid of the channel muting because i know you are doing mod installs and i want to maintain the integrity of "the mod" no matter who puts it in a radio.
your work is improving, and i do hope you continue to learn, but you do need to start learning the "whys" instead of just the "whats" and "hows".
For example, did you know that its not a good idea to replace the 2SC1674's with the 2SC2999's except in very few cases? the 1st RF amplifier is one of them, but there is a big difference between a "quiet radio" and "reduced sensitivity". the gain figure of the transistor is only one part of the equation.
its about why its quiet.
do you know the downsides to broadbanding the RX and TX mixer stages in these radios?
do you realize that getting rid of the SWR CAL control doesnt work like you think it does?
just because the radio calibrates on your dummy load doesnt mean that it will calibrate on the customer's antenna.
do you know why its not a good idea to tune the 455khz IF cans using a 27mhz signal?
remember that the testimonials you get are from people that know less about it than you do, otherwise the majority of them would be doing it on their own.
He has admitted that he will remove AM limiters from radios to make them louder....there are shops out there that refuse to do that and tell there customers why it is not a good thing.
This post is telling, i will let you figure it out on your own.
Also loosecannon I never read any of your posts on the net. I have gotten most of the mods I do from just looking around not from any one person and never from one of your posts that I recall. Thank you for the muting issue mod works very nice and I am using it on all my 148`s I build now.
I have to address this post:
but if they bias their opinion on nothing but conjecture and hearsay then its not an opinion...it's slander
Not at all, most of it can be based on his own admissions here so how can you even begin to call that "conjecture and hearsay" ?
Tim is more than welcome to come back here and defend his work....
But, his last post....was this.
This will be the last post as I am so busy with radio work I will not have time to respond to anymore posts. 15 jobs are waitng for me and getting I am more work everyday. Thanks to everyone that has responded to my post me. And for christ sake we are talking about cb radio`s not a nuclear bomb lol.
I will finish with this Quote from L/C from the thread that started the whole Snake radios debate.
i want to address all the new forum members who have come here to defend Tim, and attempt to slap our wrists for what has been posted.
you guys need to study this thread more, and be sure to read ALL of the posts before you reply.
did you guys notice that this thread is more than a year old, and the only reason its active right now is because Tim posted a "rebuttal" a year after the thread was made?
look at the dates of the posts.
When i started this thread in 2010, it was to have a laugh with my fellow 2000GTL enthusiasts about how someone could call a 2000GTL with a bunch of knobs on the back "UNHACKED".
we found that funny.
you guys wouldnt know it because you are new here, but on this forum i am known as somewhat of an MB8719 snob, and i am comfortable with that label.
Tim came here a year after the thread died and took offense to what was posted.
everything posted after that is in direct response to what he posted.
im sure you would all agree that the best way to keep from having your tech work dissected would be to keep it private and not post videos of it on youtube.
trying to ruin someone's business? no way, far from it.
im sure many of us here wouldnt mind helping Tim along in his journey, but he has put himself in a tough position by being too proud to ask questions about things he hasnt learned yet, and propping himself up in his vids as the end all be all cure to truckstop hack mods.
again, read all of the posts and check the dates before you reply
This thread was posted to apply a rather LARGE Spoon to a pot that has already been stirred here.
If the fire gets turned up much more, it will end up like the last thread.
Tim is more than welcome to log on and reply on his own if he feels he needs to say something.
73
Jeff
