XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   "Cursitor Doom"  wrote in message news:ect1jj   
   bn2lpeehjha3lvpj75kpp1blav6@4ax.com...   
   >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 was definitely much better at equipment repair 40 years ago.   
   These days I'd rather not touch hardware if possible.   
      
   Sometimes I get asked to fix computers but if a box full of dust has   
   motherboard failure then I don't want to know, other than maybe   
   extracting data from the hard drive.   
      
   If a box full of valves has microphone failure or needs electrolytic capacitor   
   replacement then I might take it on.   
      
   Otherwise I'll stick with firewalls and cybersecurity so that I only have to   
   configure hardware by sitting at a computer and not   
   repair it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)