Refrigerator not working again

It showed up again in the tv show MASH, where a general was trying to distract Blake long enough to make time with Hot Lips.

Framistat plan, was to make motor oil last 6,000 miles and then make it edible.

And shows the mechanic's ignorance. They only come in Metric, English, and very expensive in Whitworth.

That's like sharing a four bay room in Army barracks with three slobs. :(

Luckily, most of my time after basic I had a one man room. It only took 15 minutes a week to keep it clean enough to pass all inspections. It was funny, at Ft. Rucker. I was an E2, but in a slot for an E5, so I managed to get the key for the assigned one man room. It was a real mess, and took about two weeks to clean all the old floor wax off the floor, baseboards and even the walls. A month later we were visited by a bunch of generals from Washington. One asked my captain who's room they were in, then said it was the cleanest he'd seen on the whole trip. When he found out it belonged to an E2 he got mad, then laughed and said, Anyone who spends enough time to keep his quarters that neat could keep the room. I barely spent 15 minutes a week. Luckily, he didn't see the coil of coax hanging outside my window. I worked in the Weathervision system, which included 17 Cable TV systems. The man that maintained the civilian cable TV on base gave me permission to run a drop to my room in the barracks when he caught me repairing the damaged drop to our dayroom. He figured that if I had cable, I would keep the two paid drops working for him. :)

The majority of HVAC techs have no idea how to do board level repairs. I find cold solder joints all the time and am able to get a system up and running without having to replace an expensive circuit board. The catch is, how much time will it take to repair a one hundred dollar circuit board vs $85.00 per hour.

I put an oscillator inside a hollowed out D-cell to show smart asses who asked me for an AC battery. When I showed up with my AC battery I would get this "we're just kidding, there's no such thing." Then I hooked it to a scope and said "SEE?". I swiped the idea from I don't remember who. 8-)

TDD

Causing many heads to look like the watermelons at a Gallagher show, I assume :-)

A friend of mine studied electrical engineering at Auburn back in the

TDD

Turn about is fair play but outsmarting smart-asses causes them to hate you and they waste countless hours trying to get back at you. I love pranks but draw the line at anything destructive or something that could possibly cause someone harm, like the old gasoline in the fire extinguisher gag. When I worked in a repair depot so many years ago, our individual work benches had a master switch to kill the power to the various magnifier lamps, test gear and soldering stations. One of my coworkers was a REAL gun nut. He had guns everywhere. He had at least two on him at any time so I couldn't resist. I painted his soldering iron with liquid flux then coated it with gun powder. He came into work that day in a foul mood growling at everything in sight, slammed down what he was carrying on his work bench, flipped on the power switch and we all cringed expecting him to go berserk and shoot everyone in sight. After 10 seconds a big flash and puff of smoke came from his soldering iron, he jumped up and screamed like a woman in a monster movie then started giggling. After that he was OK and in a good mood the rest of the day. See, pranks can be therapeutic! 8-)

TDD

I used to stuff components for a wave solder. The guy who tended the machine used to say "go with the flow, bro" which we thought was funny.

When I was in college, one professor used to smoke cigarettes while he taught. Which was painful to me, as I'm allergic. He'd look in the trash can, and find something for an ash tray. Piece of paper, or soda can. I got the brilliant idea to put some flash powder in a dry pop can, and leave in the trash can. He'd put still-lit cigarettes into the pop can. I got the idea, but never did try it. I really should have.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of gasoline in the fire extinguisher.

Some of us do, but its not cost effective to do so.

No, control boards are not free, and yes, some of us *DO* know what wave soldering is.

That would make you the exception. Lack of knowledge in one area doesn't make one stupid or ineffective in their chosen field. Ignorance means you don't know but you can learn, stupid means no way. I'm ignorant about a lot of things so I use what my mother taught me, "If it smells bad, don't eat it." I apply this to everything in my life. 8-)

TDD

Later, I worked at a military TV station, before leaving the service. Years later I was an engineer at a UHF TV station with a 5 MW EIRP signal on a 1749 foot tower near the east coast of Central Florida.

Reflow soldering is a lot more common these days. With so much surface mount, wave solder has lost a lot of market share.

"We" ?

Is that you + the voices in your head?

That was the "Close cover before striking" college, right?

The Daring Dufas on Thu, 23 Sep 2010

Had a co-worker who would respond to request for "a butt load" of anything with "That a standard or metric butt load?"

Appparently, you are the only one with voices in your head.

Well, some people DO confuse 'a ton' with 'a butt load'. ;-)