Re: gEDA-user: lost newbie

["Bert Douglas" <bertd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And I recall one evening back in the very early 70's when I was sitting
> at the kitchen table about 11 pm testing an old tube type CB radio that
> I was redoing the jumpers in to convert it for 12 volt operation.
>
> Unforch, the one pair of jumpers I missed on the schematic had left the
> vibrator (remember those?) and plate transformer still wired for 6
> volts.  The radio worked great on 12 volts, until one of the filter
> cans made a dent about 1/2" deep in the plaster ceiling.  The kids,
> trying to get some sleep upstairs, thought I was shooting at them.
>
> Messy, took a couple of hours to clean that up.  Stinky too.  Probably
> had over 600 volts on 450 volt rated caps.

I remember once I was repairing a line printer.  This was not like the
typical desktop printer of today.  It was big, and heavy, and noisy.  It
stood on the floor and was about as tall as a person.  I was investigating
why one of the hammers was not firing.  My memory is unclear about what
happened right before the explosion.  People said it sounded like a shotgun
from down the hall.  The whole room was filled with horrid tasting smoke.
And one of the large electrolytic capacitors about the size of a can of coke
had pretty much disappeared.  Well not exactly.  It took me an hour to
vacuum the mess out of the inside of the printer.