[QuadList] Guerilla splices (was NBC/RCA types)

[allanmc-avtech at comcast.net]

Did anyone else, besides my self, ever spray WD-40 into a noisey fan motor that was turning and still connected to AC power.....only to have it spark and turn into a mini-flame thrower?   The results are definately undesirable!

AM

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From: "Gary Adams" <garyada at ix.netcom.com> 

Worse was “Spray Klean”  (?) used to clean tuners and controls.  The shop always smelled like that stuff and every once in a while someone would light the sprayer.  Now we all have “Old TV Engineers” disease.
 
Regards, Gary Adams
 
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Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [QuadList] Guerilla splices (was NBC/RCA types)
 
Although RCA and NBC are synonymous.  I can remember hosing that stuff (Freon) around (assured that it was completely inert) and thinking, yeah, someday we're going to find out that it is secretly killing us and destroying the planet.  Which it was.  
One very hot and humid day in Toronto, the little keg of the stuff developed a slow drip on the carpeting .... After several hours, a small stalagmite of water slush had accumulated-- very amusing to see.
 



Probably also did fun things like goosing each other with squirts from bottles of Freon TF.
Nothing like working a string of double shifts in a row and then being douched with a stream of Freon from a plastic squirt bottle.  Definite tend to wake a fellow up in a hurry.
 
Joe Owens
Presto!Digital Colourgrade
302-9664 106 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta T5H0N4
+1 780 421-9980
jpo at prestodigital.ca
 



 
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