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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: ....And Another One Bites the Dust!
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 10:17:07 -0800
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On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:11:31 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
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.