Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann Newsgroups: sci.electronics.repair Subject: Re: Can't get radio back in its case Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 19:27:02 -0700 Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <7a0t2jp9udk4p2252gir1ljv9i2be3pgda@4ax.com> <454t2jpcbmevao675b9hi4m291emang9jk@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net LwA25UC251zHfe/cIRIpHAAhrg3LHILJI4A2mBam+P7oWNFibP Cancel-Lock: sha1:2cg4m3YAvjRni9Yfcxd3RpTWaWM= sha256:5Y5r1/V+xcFugbtI9mP/JQ7VZz61JKWLnv8bpA9ttpk= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 3548 On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:15:19 +0100, Cursitor Doom wrote: >On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:12:58 -0700, Jeff Liebermann >wrote: > >>On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 18:07:38 +0100, Cursitor Doom >>wrote: >> >>>Gentlemen, >>> >>>I had a really strong urge to smash a vintage radio into smithereens >>>earlier today. I just couldn't get the damn thing to go back into its >>>case. The chassis assembly is fouling on something and it's preventing >>>it from re-seating. Plus it nipped my fingers when I tried to force it >>>in. I just wanted to destroy it so badly. I could have totally smashed >>>it to bits with a club hammer to be honest. >>>It just gives me a renewed admiration for repair technicians. I don't >>>know where they get their patience and forbearance from. I have very >>>little, personally. Maybe that's why I'm not a repair tech. >>> >>>CD >> >>You give up to easily. Pull out the chassis from the case. Shove a >>piece of paper in between the chassis and case where you suspect it >>might be binding. Push the chassis into the case until it stops. Pull >>it out again. You should see some damage to the paper where the >>chassis and case are binding. >> >>When that happens to me, most of the time it's either loose wires or >>wrong length screw. >Jeff, have you ever smashed anything to bits when you couldn't repair >it or just became impatient? No. If I want to exercise my frustrations over a failed repair, I have a wood pile that always needs chainsawing, bucking, splitting and stacking: It's excellent exercise and also a good time to practice my profanity. The closest I've come to destroying uncooperative electronics are with devices that can't be easily opened or are intentionally designed to be impossible to repair. Apple products come to mind. I save them in a box to age slowly. Once fully depreciated, I offer the remains to the various electronics gods as burnt offerings, usually on the barbecue grill during summer and inside the wood burning stove during winter. If I'm too lazy to fix something, I sell it on eBay as "parts only". When I was younger and didn't have a proper alter on which to process burnt offerings, I practiced cannibalism by unsoldering any parts and pieces could be salvaged. I also owned a large axe (named "coin return"), which was quite useful for reducing large repair problems into smaller repair problems. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558