XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: imvalid@somewear.com   
      
   On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 04:03:22 -0000, Robert Baer    
   wrote:   
      
   > rickman wrote:   
   >> Jeff Liebermann wrote on 12/12/2017 2:26 PM:   
   >>>   
   >>> Three allegedly functional junk microwave ovens were purchased from   
   >>> the local thrift shop for about $20/ea.  When the owners of the store   
   >>> found out what we were doing, she threw in three more ovens that had   
   >>> various defects which made them unsellable, but were allegedly able to   
   >>> heat water.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't have time right now for the whole story, so I'll just   
   >>> summarize.  Every oven acted or failed differently.   
   >>   
   >> Jeff, you are a trip!   
   >>   
   >    I live in an apartment complex, and a lot of microwave ovens have   
   > been thrown away; and most of them were perfectly OK after they were   
   > cleaned up.   
   >    Same pattern with vacuum cleaners.   
   >    A number of people are pigs.   
      
   I got four Dysons off freecycle (because they're infamous for falling to   
   bits).  Put all the faulty parts into one, then the other three work :-)   
      
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