Heathkit service tech pranks

[rayfri]

I was the subject of a rather cruel joke when I first started working at the
Radio
Shack service center.   We all had TV monitors on our benches...  to watch TV
while we worked.... or to use with our Color Computers as monitors....
     Well... I came in to work one day.... powered up the bench... and my TV
screen was awash in a swirl of patterns and colors.    I tried all kinds of
things
to figure out what was wrong and to fix it...  Finally I decided the TV had bit
the dust... so I started to ask for a replacement when the techs next to me
busted
out laughing...
     Seems they had taken a rather large speaker magnet and hid it on the other
side of the side panel of my bench...  the magnet field would screw up the TV
picture every time it was placed in its normal position....  kind of like a
degaussing coil
type pattern....



Multi-Volti wrote:

> At Heath factory service, sometimes techs would take some 2W carbon
> composition resistors sized for a 'slow burn' at 120 vac, wire them to one
> of those fused Heath AC plugs and plug it into a power-strip outlet on a new
> tech's bench. The tech would turn on the main bench switch in the morning
> and panic over the stench emanating from behind whatever he was
> troubleshooting later that afternoon.
>
> Nice, huh?
>
> Murray
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Glen Zook <gzook at YAHOO.COM>
> To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Old Filter Caps
>
> > When I was in high school, a couple of the "problem
> > children" students would take the electrolytics from
> > old TV sets that had the two insulated leads from the
> > same end and plug them into an AC outlet.  It took
> > about 30 seconds to a minute on average, and the
> > capacitor would explode giving off a bad smell and
> > lots of smoke and debris.  They would do this in
> > school bathrooms, classrooms, etc.  We had a pretty
> > good idea as to just who was doing this, but they
> > never got caught.  However, over a couple of years I
> > suspect that they set off at least 50 capacitors
> > (about one per week).
> >
> > Glen, K9STH
> >
> >
> > --- Neil Morrison <neilsmorr at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > It's not too corrosive, but if you've ever seen one
> > explode, DAMN, it's messy!
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Glen, K9STH
> >
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> > http://home.attbi.com/~k9sth
> > http://home.attbi.com/~zcomco
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