Ever felt stupid ... ?

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:33:57 +0100, "Arfa Daily" put finger to keyboard and composed:

I use these as well, but mostly for returning faulty parts to the customer.

I prefer to replace the screws in their original locations as I'm dismantling the device. That way I don't have to rely on my memory.

- Franc Zabkar

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"Franc Zabkar"

** Why do that ??

Almost no customer ever wants to see them and the tiny few that do have very weird reasons.

I will not return faulty valves to customers for fear they may try to re-use or sell them.

..... Phil

Phil Allis>Why do that ?[...]

One guy I knew got tired of folks second-guessing him and checking the old tubes on a drugstore tester and finding they were "OK".

Military exchange vendor rules said the parts had to be returned so once he had the gear fixed, he took the bad tubes and hooked up each filament to a variac and ran it up until *POP*. Nothing in the rule book on that, apparently.

Now, there's a man in need of some shelving.

Well, that's a start. (I assume that shot was *after* the temblor.)

"JeffM"

** How damned annoying.

** I once bent and broke the pins on some octal valves a customer insisted on having back.

You should have seen their face ....

On another occasion, a vendor sold me 50 each MJ15003/4 power transistors that proved to be fakes ( re-labelled, old stock 2N3055s and MJ2955s). So I took off the numbering with acetone and sent them back with a request for a full refund.

Got a hot letter from his lawyer over that one.

Got the refund too, eventually.

.... Phil

the "thing being beat on" has to be set aside,

This term now replaces "unit under test" in my lexicon.

:-)

Mark Z.

You DO NOT want to see his hole punch! ;-)

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"Mark Zacharias" wrote in news:4e733af3$0$26527$ snipped-for-privacy@newsreader.readnews.com:

DUT;device under test. easier to pronounce than UUT. Or "TBBO".

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Jim Yanik
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wow! you missed a space above your bench for a wall mounted rack. ;) you know, the kind that blocks the light

I have quite a bit of shelving in the office, all of it full of junk. There are also two closets, full of junk, and 3 more rolling shelf units, full of junk, and two desks, piled high with junk. Also, a small table which 3 sewing machines under repair, and another desk, with the cell phone rebuilding division. Diversification is the key to ummm.... well, something.

Here's an old 2006 photo. Scroll horizontally:

I'll post a replacement when I have time to make another panorama.

The two photos were shot yesterday. The quake was in 1989. I was in a different office during the quake but moved into my present palatial offices in 1990. Having all the racks on wheels should help with the next quake if the movement is mostly horizontal.

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There's a 4ft fluorescent lamp under the shelf. Much better than an overhead lamp. There are two more shop lights hanging from the ceiling, but the shelf light works best. I also have a light on the articulated magnifying glass and an LED light that I wear on my head.

All the racks are in another room, crammed with equipment, little of which is operational. Most of the racks are used for storing equipment, or in one case, for hanging my various jackets and overalls.

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Ever felt stupid?

Well, I had this girlfriend once...

Jeff Liebermann wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

it's best to mount the main light for the bench over and slightly behind you,so it lights your work. I've had to design a couple of TEK field service office layouts,when we moved into new buildings. Having the main light directly over the bench results in shadows on the vertical parts of the DUT. I prefer to not have to wear a headlight.

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Jim Yanik
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I didn't even get done reading your post and the first thing that came to mind was the speaker magnet. 20/20 hindsight is precious.

I think one of the worst things to take apart is a laptop. I used labeled 2" x 3" baggies for everything.

The last stupid thing I did was when I was working on a lawn mower I took the flywheel cover off and regapped the coil with an index card (best thing to use) and I pinched the spark plug wire when reassembling. The mower started, ran for a while until I moved it and it stopped. The spark plug wire was pinched pretty bad. I repaired it with high temperature self-fusing electrical tape, about $40/roll, but I always have it handy.

That wasn't *my post, dude.

If you're going to post to Usenet (especially if you're going to use Google's Web-based interface), learn how to do that properly.

Start by learning how to include some context from the post to which you are responding.