20 Apr
2013
20 Apr
'13
10:16 p.m.
On Saturday 20 April 2013 16:14:36 Fons Adriaensen did opine:
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:58:13AM -0400, Gene Heskett
wrote:
Another voice of experience from having attended the wars, thanks Fons.
Cheers, Gene
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BOFH excuse #363:
Out of cards on drive D:
A pen in the hand of this president is far more
dangerous than a gun in the hands of 200 million
law-abiding citizens.
Soldering is an art form, one I have found I
can't teach just anybody
to do. Decent tools to do these repairs will run toward $300. The
soldering iron itself will run from $130 to $250 USD. Suitable razor
sharp. /flush cut/ 4" diagonal cutters, 5" curved nose suture clamps,
solder suckers to clean this up with, small, quality screw drivers
that actually /fit/ the screws, the knowledge to use the correct
screwdriver for /that/ screw, even a good, razor sharp pocket knife
will be needed.
:
:-) It's indeed incredible what you find sometimes when opening up
the XLRs on the ends of a failed cable. Big, spherical blobs of tin
on the solder cups, insulation of signal wires destroyed by too much
heat... Not to speak of the rest of the cable. On of the first things
I had to do at the CdM was to replace or remake *all* the cables and
teach the users how to coil a cable after use. I still have a few 10m
long 'telephone handset' cables to show how it should *not* be done...
And some XRL-Fs which had the #1 socket ripped out by someone pulling
the cable... (it *does* take some force to do that)
Caio,