XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: JL@gct.com   
      
   On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:11:31 +0000, Cursitor Doom    
   wrote:   
      
   >I find that about 20% of the stuff I try to repair I just make worse   
   >and end up throwing it in the garbage. The reason in every case is   
   >down to ham-fistedness and carelessness. Fortunately I don't do this   
   >for a living and none of the stuff that blows up belongs to anyone   
   >else. Funny thing is, you'd expect to get better over time with this   
   >activity, but I haven't. My kill rate remains at one in five and there   
   >doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it.The other day I had a   
   >vintage tape recorder burst into flames because I forgot to discharge   
   >an electrolytic cap that I'd diligently re-formed before fitting it.   
   >It brushed against something it shouldn't have done in the process and   
   >*bang!* another one went west. Sigh...   
      
   I tell my engineers: Stop. Think.   
      
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