On Wednesday, 21.06.2006 at 13:16 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > he could always rubber-band it. > > Dave Ewart writes: > > Assuming the problem is as Peter originally supposed: exactly what > > are you suggesting here?!? > > "Rubber-banding" is a sleazy TV repairman's trick from the 1960s and > 70s. The sets had IF transformers (air-core transformers in an > aluminum can) soldered to the board which often suffered from internal > intermittent connections. You could recognize the class of problem > from the symptoms and then identify the defective transformer by > wiggling the transformers one by one: push the bad one in the correct > direction and the trouble cleared out. Of course, the responsible > thing to do was to replace the transformer. However a certain clasee > of technician figured "Hey. Shoving the damn thing over to the right > fixes it: why replace it? A rubber band to the next tranformer will > hold it in place". > > The pc motherboard equivalent would be flexing and bending the board > until the trouble clears out and then wedging it into that position.
Ah, I see. A replacement motherboard it is, then :-) Dave. P.S. Nice write-up, thanks... ;-) -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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