steve_earwig wrote:
One of my proudest moments came when I found a large yet portable telly in a skip at work. I fired it up and it worked ok, the reason it was in the skip was the panel with the controls had been shoved inside so you couldn't change the channels or anything. Ok, I thought, that'll be an easy job to fix. The problem was I needed to remove the tube to get to it and I was just levering off the connectors for the degaussing loop when I was reminded of the huge capacitors & many thousands of volts they use... That's one small step for an engineer, one giant leap across the room for an idiot
Like the time I got a Mac Classic, worked well apart from a knackered HDD, these were the old macs which had the monitor built into everything. Took it apart, screwdriver working away getting the hard drive out, touched something with the screwdriver, BANG and the screen had gone too, ended up in the bin
1999 Honda Accord Coupe 2.0 Vtec Automatic
Previously 2002 406 HDi 90 Rapier Monaco Blue
Welly wrote:something to do with rubber/splits/bursts/flat/floppy etc
