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From: Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,sci.electronics.repair
Subject: ....And Another One Bites the Dust!
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:11:31 +0000
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
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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...