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  • ....And Another One Bites the Dust!

    From Cursitor Doom@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 10 18:11:31 2024
    XPost: sci.electronics.repair

    I find that about 20% of the stuff I try to repair I just make worse
    and end up throwing it in the garbage. The reason in every case is
    down to ham-fistedness and carelessness. Fortunately I don't do this
    for a living and none of the stuff that blows up belongs to anyone
    else. Funny thing is, you'd expect to get better over time with this
    activity, but I haven't. My kill rate remains at one in five and there
    doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it.The other day I had a
    vintage tape recorder burst into flames because I forgot to discharge
    an electrolytic cap that I'd diligently re-formed before fitting it.
    It brushed against something it shouldn't have done in the process and
    *bang!* another one went west. Sigh...

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  • From john larkin@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 10 10:17:07 2024
    XPost: sci.electronics.repair

    On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:11:31 +0000, Cursitor Doom <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    I find that about 20% of the stuff I try to repair I just make worse
    and end up throwing it in the garbage. The reason in every case is
    down to ham-fistedness and carelessness. Fortunately I don't do this
    for a living and none of the stuff that blows up belongs to anyone
    else. Funny thing is, you'd expect to get better over time with this >activity, but I haven't. My kill rate remains at one in five and there >doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it.The other day I had a
    vintage tape recorder burst into flames because I forgot to discharge
    an electrolytic cap that I'd diligently re-formed before fitting it.
    It brushed against something it shouldn't have done in the process and >*bang!* another one went west. Sigh...

    I tell my engineers: Stop. Think.

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  • From Edward Rawde@21:1/5 to Cursitor Doom on Sun Nov 10 13:42:38 2024
    XPost: sci.electronics.repair

    "Cursitor Doom" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    I find that about 20% of the stuff I try to repair I just make worse
    and end up throwing it in the garbage. The reason in every case is
    down to ham-fistedness and carelessness. Fortunately I don't do this
    for a living and none of the stuff that blows up belongs to anyone
    else. Funny thing is, you'd expect to get better over time with this activity, but I haven't. My kill rate remains at one in five and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it.The other day I had a
    vintage tape recorder burst into flames because I forgot to discharge
    an electrolytic cap that I'd diligently re-formed before fitting it.
    It brushed against something it shouldn't have done in the process and *bang!* another one went west. Sigh...

    I was definitely much better at equipment repair 40 years ago.
    These days I'd rather not touch hardware if possible.

    Sometimes I get asked to fix computers but if a box full of dust has motherboard failure then I don't want to know, other than maybe
    extracting data from the hard drive.

    If a box full of valves has microphone failure or needs electrolytic capacitor replacement then I might take it on.

    Otherwise I'll stick with firewalls and cybersecurity so that I only have to configure hardware by sitting at a computer and not
    repair it.

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