I just picked up a box of electronics at an estate sale. At the bottom was the former owner's cub scout book from 1948. Instructions to make a vacuum tube radio surprised me. Kind of sparse. Either dads of yester-year were more intuitive than they are today or current instructions assume people are idiots, or ... (fill in your answer). Either way, this is for 8 to 10-year-olds.

 

http://www.qsl.net/k5bcq/REGEN/regen.html

 

http://www.qsl.net/k5bcq/REGEN/regen.html

Ahh! Of course. I forgot that the cub scouts was (is?) an advertising / entrapment mechanism of Sears Roebuck.

That is where we had to buy the official Pinewood derby kit, too!

From link above...

This was also the radio kit Sears and Roebuck sold in the Cub Scout / Boy Scout department of their store. That's where mine was purchased.

 

Also, does anyone know what the clips on the far left of image in first post us called? Are they still available?

 

Fahnstock

 

Farhenstock clips?

 

fahnestock

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahnestock_clip
I missed it by one letter.

 

Still available, check the usual suspects (EBay, Amazon,...).

Google is your friend.

 

current people are idiots

This

 

...or current instructions assume people are idiots

I think so -- and, as regards a burgeoning percentage of 'current people', a sadly tenable assumption at that